Customer Reviews

Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams (Nintendo Game Boy Color)

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I remember the good old days of Street Fighter 2. Im fifteen now, and I was in the second/third grade when Street Figher 2 CE first hit the local 7-11. I still remember tales of Blue Blanka. I tried to avoid this and the good ol days of Street Fighter 2 and beyond when playing this game so I have to say this simply:

Pluses

*Good Control for the most part, but you could sometimes screw up a jab with a fierce and vice-versa

*Great Translation in characters! All of the super-combos are here, and all of the special moves and most of the original moves. All the minute details are in tact, such as Ryu's fierce knockdown fireball, to Kens flaming dragon punch.

Negatives

*You should ONLY BUY THIS GAME IF YOU ARE A SF VET! Newbies should play one of the playstation versions before he tries out the portable version

*Street Fighter was clearly made for two player, and the absence of it dropped the score by a point. MAJOR DISSAPOINTMENT.

*Awful sound!

*Set story lines, in the fact you will ALWAYS PLAY THE SAME PEOPLE WITH CERTAIN CHARACTERS. This leads to less depth, less challange, and worst of all boredome

Bottom line:

If you are a street fighter lover and veteran, you might somewhat appreciate this game, and find that there will DEFINITELY BE A SF ALPHA 2 comming out so wait for it and save your cash. I gave it an average score only on the fact that everything is still in tact except for two player, which is a HUGE ABSENCE. Wait for Alpha 2.

It was time that a solid portable fighting game made it's way in America. But Street Fighter Alpha don't have much competition, and the only wanabee competitor is X-Men M.A. (that game really sucks). All in all, Street' is a good looking fighter with great gameplay. It is very much like the original version,but the only complaint I have is that the sounds effects could have been so much better...oh yeah it don't have the link cable feature either...

This is one of the best game I owned so afr. it has excellent graphics and the moves are not difficult to excute at all, especially Akuma's utlimate super combo. the only flaw it has it that the hiddent characters such as akuma, m.bison, and dan are chosen randomly, there is a sort of pattern, but there are no codes for choosing them.

Street Fighter 2 Alpha: Warriors' Dream is a solid, but far from perfect, translation of the premier fighting game. Although I give Capcom full credit for making any version of SF2 work on the GBC, this is fun, but not with a few major flaws.

Pros: - Mostly solid controls, packing a lot of moves into the GB's 2 buttons. Alpha attacks are a nice touch and visually impressive. - 8 characters, with 3 hidden characters. - Nice backgrounds. - Fluid animation. - Decent background music. - Training mode is a nice touch.

Cons: - Characters, while large, are not as detailed as they could be. - Horrible sound effects, nothing but scratchy noises. - Weak, poorly written endings with cheesy dialogue. - No two player link option. - High scores don't save. - Only for Game Boy Color. - Street Fighter II: Alpha is not my favorite in the SFII series, I would have liked SF2: Champion Edition or SF3 better, but that's a personal preferences.

Bottom Line: The best fighting game for the GB, but there is still a lot of room for improvement.

Forget all those horrible fighting game translations that hit the original GameBoy and GameBoy Color (most of them started with Mortal Kombat) and take a good long look and Capcom's 8-bit version of Street Fighter Alpha for the GBC. Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Charlie, Rose, Guy, Sodom, and Birdie; all of which look surprisingly faithful to their more powerful console bretheren, albeit some lacking animation and detail. Controls are surprisingly solid and the special moves will take time to pull off but once you do they're easy. The sound is mostly terrible and you'll want to turn down your GBC's volume, and the endings for each character are ridicuously cheesy, but the meat and bones of Street Fighter Alpha is the fighting itself, and that is where this comes out a winner. All in all, Street Fighter Alpha for the GBC may not be the best fighter to come along, but in the case of the GBC it reigns supreme.

to fight against akuma choose your character and hold the A and B button until the match starts your opponent will be akuma. to fight against bison choose your character then hold A,B and the select button until the match starts your opponent will be bison. it's a great game the only complaint is like what a gamer said it's a fix story line that your character gets to fight certain characters all the time for example if you play as ken the only characters you fight are guy, sodom, birdie, rose, charlie, chunli and ryu. everytime you play as ken you fight only those characters. it's just the same as the other players that you choose you will only get to fight certain opponents all the time which leads to boredome. and the endings are just writings that you will see your character talking to someone else in words. it's good but you will get bored pretty fast.

The last great fighting game for Game Boy Color. Good graphics and the same great characters that made Street Fighter famous on the SNES are back in this fast-paced game! There is a practice mode where you can set your opponents skill rating. You'll need to practice your moves and special moves if you want to go to tournament mode! In tournament mode things are alot harder so you'll have to practice in practice mode. The graphics are great and the music is okay. Be sure to get this game!

This is the best fighting game for game boy since I can remember. There are two complaints of mine. the first complaint is, the sound effects are awful, but the graphics are good, and the music is O.K. The other complaint is that there are only three game modes; Arcade mode, Training mode, and opsions. But I guess if you add the good and the bad things together, it comes out even. Bottom line. This game is fun and it tades only ten minuetes to beat on easy. Bottom line. This games teen rating, don't worry about it.

Addictive. Very. Plays well, moves aren't really hard to pull off. A great game for anytime. Don't worry about the 'T' rating, it's not that violent. Every serious gamer should have one from each genre, this is THE fighting game for gbc.

No, you can't play your friends, but even with that drawback this is one of the best Gameboy Color games that I have played yet. The game play is fluid and easy to adjust to. The colors and graphics are great. Well worth the money. There is even a training phase where you can practise your special moves. The great thing is that you can pop the game in and play for ten minutes and then put it down and then get back to work. There is a lot of freedom to it. You're not tied to playing it for hours on end (but you will).