Fighting Stage Edition #2

As i mention before, i will write 2nd edition of this article. By Jove, here it is! This is other examples of fighting stage along with my comment/analysis about them.

Scarlet Devil Mansion exterior (at nighttime) - Immaterial and Missing Power (PC)

Here i play as my favorite character #4 in Touhou Project, Reimu Hakurei. Sakuya Izayoi asked her to be sparring partner during night. Because at daytime Sakuya is very busy with household chores and she need to refine her combatfare. The center of attraction on this stage is certainly that big clock. I notice that some of its rims are shinning so pretty. Maybe it's because they got reflection from moonlight or Remilia Scarlet had neon-glow magic-glow (made by Patchouli Knowledge) installed on them. I prefer the latter because that's most interesting possibility in my opinion. Some people/doujin-ka analogize Koumakan/Scarlet Devil Mansion with Vampire's castle in Castlevania series. So you can imagine inside this clock is lots of Medusa Head flying around. Forget that! That's horrid idea. How about this: (if i remember correctly) in Castlevania: Dracula X (SNES), Richter Belmont will fights Death in front of Clock's face. So perhaps, this place is Komachi Onozuka's favorite place to take nap and slacking-off with Hong Meiling's entry-approval as both of them are red-haired slacker.

 

As sparring close to finish, Reimu gives Sakuya swift acupuncture therapy to make her body feel healthier. How kind of Reimu. You don't believe me? See Sakuya's expression! She feels refreshed! Pain? Medic_no03.wav. 

Gen-an's Stage - Samurai Shodown II (Arcade)

Quick fact: Genan and his fellow green-skin are member of Shiranui clan which follow "way of evil". Few of its application are kill (other) human/other creatures, and eat them. So, not only Gen-an intends to kill Galford (and perhaps his pets) but also he adds them into that stew over there. Genan fellow on leftside looks really excited for stew's additional ingredient while the ones one rightside still busy stirring the stew. "But, Werdito! In edition #1, you have written about 3 fighting stages in Samurai Shodown II" Well, that's right. But how can i ignore this stage especially if you look the stew closely.

 

Among (presumably) human skull is an Alien. Yes, it's alien from Aliens movie that is designed by H.R Giger. You must have extraordinary-strong guts (both metaphorically and literally) to cook and eat alien. Bit worth to mention is how red the soup is. They must use lots of red chili/paprika and tomato in this cooking. Bet that's not because they use human blood. They need to balance human & alien meat composition with fresh vegetables in order to make the stew tastes delicious and refreshing, you see. Otherwise it taste queasy.

 

But Gen-an fail to kill Galford thus his fellows are very disappointed. The one on leftside is fall over because of his disappointment while the rightside one looks really grumpy. This is proof that cannibalism among Shiranui fellow is beyond clan's "way of evil" (otherwise they will be happy). Maybe they're killer green hunchback and such, but they still have reasonable sense not to eat among themselves.

Accident site - Capcom vs. SNK Millennium Fight 2000 Pro (PSX)

"Apparently, there's huge oil-container truck or gas leak accident that cause huge fire. This is perfect place for our fighting arena" said one "Capcom vs. SNK Millennium Fight 2000 Pro tournament" committee. For your psychopathic heart and safety-standard negligence, i congratulate you, sir. -_-

 

Not even Benimaru (who is a lady-charmer) and Chun-Li (who is a policewoman) stop their fighting and help poor lady over there. Okay, that's not entirely true. Maybe if Chun-Li won, she would immediately take her to safety and comfort her. But the winner is Ryu. What he only care is fighting other fighter and improve his fighting skill. Thus he leaves the place, ignoring that lady and Chun-Li who is lying unconsciously on hard asphalt. The immoral git.

 Stage 5/ Dolf's Stage- Tuff E Nuff (SNES)

This stage has fantastic opening scene: huge rockets are being set for launching. One rocket that's closest to this platform is hitchhiked by Dolf so he can drop off to the platform. Strange thing is he hitchhiked the rocket with bare hand. No handlebar, rope, or climbing gear involved. Unless his boots have magnetic field on their sole. Then i want one of those boots. That's awesome.

 

By the way, he can fire his bazooka/rocket launcher at his opponent. It's not just mere decoration that he always carry, you know?! You think that he is cheating that he carry explosive weapon to fist-to-fist fighting is cheating. That's not entirely correct as Zazi here can throw soul projectiles (yes, it's kind of like Hadou-Ken) at will. So Dolf is simply justifying to compete with fighter who can shoots soul projectiles. With modern weapon that is.

J. Max's Stage - World Heroes II (Arcade)

 

J. Max's (The American footballer) stage is American slum area where many gangster (the modern ones not group of fedora-trenchcoat gentlemen) can be found around. On the centers there is lots of barrel that i can imagine contain roast meat/chicken, throwing knife, or gold bar. My apology. I'm sidescrolling-beat-em-up-game hardcore fan, you see. On the right corner, we got van that has flat tires, broken windows, also spray-paint scrawl on all over it. I can guess its radio and battery are stolen. It's in very-pernicious state is another way to describe its condition. 

 

Things that can be found in American slum besides rowdy gangster are: dog scratching garbage bin for food and Hip-Hop artist. In this case there is this duet that walk left and right. They are practicing Hip-Hop lyric while watching us fighting half-heartedly.

Then they look happy as J. Max is defeated by Fuuma. Maybe they got inspiration to make Hip-Hop music about long-haired ninja defeat demonic-looking footballer. Yeah, that will be well-sold music, i think.

The Pit - Mortal Kombat (Arcade)

 

Tonight, the moon looks beautiful so this atmosphere is excellent for romantic candle-lit dinner. But in Mortal Kombat that thing isn't allowed. Only kombat, kombat and kombat! As you can tell, fighting in narrow stone bridge (also without safety railing) is really dangerous. This is Mortal Kombat, people. Where there is no safety standard to obey. So, contestants is allowed to do sadistic stuff on each other while they fight in places that have safety degree as 80%-crumbling roller coaster. By the way, Nice lion-dragon statue that has hair likes Son Goku in super saiya state.

 

For those gamer who are familiar with all Mortal Kombat series, you probably know the reason why i pick this stage. The moon and bronze lion-dragon statue are nice but the bottom part of The Pit is the true charm of this stage. This stage is the first stage fatality on any Mortal Kombat series, activated by (simply) uppercut your opponent in "Finish Him/Her" period. There is 3 severed head in here which begs question why he/she who did this has to behead his/her opponent first then drop the head here. That's tedious work compare to Scorpion did with Sonya here. Is the person who did this is Johnny Cage (*Gasp*) as the one and only who has fatality that decapitate his opponent head (by uppercut). Anyway, those head has agonized expression like someone stubs his/her foot thumb to steel cabinet. While the deadguy on their right has calm expression. God really gives this man peaceful death. Another thing to mention: the one who has duty to clean this mess here is Reptile for sure. As you fight him in this very place (Yep, among spikes and bodies). Hope he got decent salary from Shang Tsung for this job. Otherwise, sucks to be him.

Mc Matach's Stage - Mighty Warriors (Arcade)

I said that moon in The Pit is excellent for romantic candle-lit dinner. I take that back. Moon here is bigger and yellow which is much much better than the small white moon. Also there is set of bronze torch to make tonight more beautiful. This place is perfect for romantic date if you ignore Stonehenge that block the moon and fierce battle between a Viking and Irish guy here.

Shadow Dungeon - Double Dragon V - The Shadow Falls (Genesis)

Billy Lee attempts to free some prisoner here but intercepted by Bones. This place is full of miserable prisoner except the skeleton on center who laugh constantly. Maybe it's animatronic decoration to scare denizens here. Sometime there's hand reaching out in jail windows on leftside and rightside. What a full-of-desperation place. 

Just quick review: in this game there is kind of fatality move through certain finishing blow depend on your opponent. In this case Billy Lee is susceptible to standing hard punch.

 

Billy Lee turns into a skeleton, Bones juggle his head, and skeleton on the center silence on awe. So far this is the most skeleton-y screenshot that i capture.

Makai Field - Super Gem Fighter: Mini Mix (Arcade)

Here we see rare occasion of Ryu wearing footwear: clog. Then he about to smash it into Sakura's head. Ehm, pardon me. On the rightside, there is a wagon with draught animals: pig and hunchback-y coachmen. In the middle, you can see a castle on unstable ground over there. I'm certain that castle belong to Demitri Maximoff, the vampire from Darkstalker series. Also there is Jon Talbain/Gallon the kung-fu werewolf from Darkstalker series, howling periodically because there is gigantic full moon. The noisy bloke. Yes, yes, i know. Werewolf-full moon stuffs.

 

It's kind of hard to show you in this screenshot that there is pool with 2 demonic statues on leftside. The water in pool is purple maybe it's grape juice. So, in creepy Makai there's free grape juice. Makai isn't terrible place afterall, huh?! Now, Jon Talbain/Gallon shut his mouth because he realize that he got bat's dropping inside his mouth. Serves him right!

That's all fighting stage sample for today, folks. During making of 75% of this article, i realized that the stages in this article are either indoor or outdoor in nighttime. So i make all of the sample like that. Kind of for thematic reason. Last words from me: full moon is beautiful even in video games and alien can be cooking ingredient if you're evil enough.