{"id":20142,"date":"2020-05-13T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T00:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20142"},"modified":"2020-05-12T12:55:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T12:55:13","slug":"snk-gals-fighters-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/13\/snk-gals-fighters-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"SNK Gals Fighters (Switch)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Nintendo has always pretty much dominated the handheld gaming scene, and that\u2019s certainly the case with my handheld gaming time, too.\u00a0 But there were a couple of periods where another handheld drew my attention away for a bit.\u00a0 One was with the PSP, but another was with the NEO GEO Pocket Color.\u00a0 This came out in the tail end of the 90s to compete with the Game Boy Color, and man I loved this little system.\u00a0 It had neat rarities like a Crush Roller remake, great card games like SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash (which I liked better than Pok\u00e9mon), and loads of fighting games.\u00a0 SNK has always been known for their one on one fighters, and a lot of their franchises had handheld versions on this thing.\u00a0 But they had one slightly original fighter on their handheld: Gals Fighters.\u00a0 It featured female characters from their other fighting titles, and had a more lighthearted, humorous approach.\u00a0 I even got to review it way back when for The Dallas Morning News, and now I\u2019m reviewing it again for the Switch!<\/p>\n

In the game, SNK female fighters get invitations to compete in the Q.O.F. (Queen of Fighters) tournament.\u00a0 The winner will get a talisman that grants any wish.\u00a0 You get to play as fan favorites like Mai Shiranui, Leona Heidern, Athena Asamiya, Yuri Sakazaki, and many more!\u00a0 Since this game is on a handheld from 20 years ago, characters are short and squatty, but it fits the humorous tone of the game.\u00a0 Characters also fight in more cheery colorful backgrounds like beaches and amusement parks.\u00a0 But even though it\u2019s on a handheld that has only two buttons, it\u2019s nearly every bit as complicated as a regular fighter, with joystick movements and button combos to pull off special moves.\u00a0 Since this fighter has a lighter tone, characters\u2019 punches and kicks have enlarged hands and feet, as well as other silly attacks like giant hand grenades, hammers, and more.\u00a0 Sometimes you can even get into a \u2018smoke and fists\u2019 cartoon fight and must rapidly press buttons to get out of it!<\/p>\n

The game has a few modes of play.\u00a0 The Q.O.F. mode is the main story mode.\u00a0 If you pass certain objectives, you can get items that you can equip that might give you an edge in the next fight.\u00a0 You can view what items you have in the main menu as well.\u00a0 There is also a two player mode.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t think this would work since you had to use a link cable in the original game, but they got around it here but having a second NEO GEO Pocket Color pop up so the other player can choose their character!\u00a0 There is also a training mode where you can practice moves, and various options to toggle.<\/p>\n

Really the only problem with the game is that since it came out 20 years ago, it doesn\u2019t have all the quality of life features that a lot of today\u2019s fighters have.\u00a0 But luckily, there is an option screen that takes care of a lot of that.\u00a0 You view the action on a mock up NEO GEO Pocket Color handheld (which is weird when you are playing the handheld on the Switch handheld mode), but you can choose to zoom in on the screen to make it much easier to see.\u00a0 You can also toggle various screen filters, rewind, and view the game\u2019s original instruction booklet.\u00a0 All in all, Gals Fighters was one of the NEO GEO Pocket Color\u2019s best fighters, and I\u2019m glad they ported this one to the Switch, since my copy of the original game is sadly long gone.\u00a0 I hope they continue to port NEO GEO Pocket Color games to the Switch, especially SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash!<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even though the game has an all-female cast, the game itself really doesn\u2019t have any suggestive themes in it since everything is so cartoony.\u00a0 But the instruction booklet does have Mai in her usual scantily clad outfit.\u00a0 Some slight adult humor in the text in some of the endings.\u00a0 You do punch and kick other fighters, but it\u2019s very silly and cartoony.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and younger gamers may find it a bit too difficult.\u00a0 Gals Fighters is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nintendo has always pretty much dominated the handheld gaming scene, and that\u2019s certainly the case with my handheld gaming time, too.\u00a0 But there were a couple of periods where another handheld drew my attention away for a bit.\u00a0 One was with the PSP, but another was with the NEO GEO Pocket Color.\u00a0 This came out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20146,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20142\/revisions\/20146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}