#The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang

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The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang (Red - SNES - 1994)

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Some obscure little game characters

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(Red - SNES - 1993/1994)

From: The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang (超魔界大戦！どらぼっちゃん)

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The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang

©️ Red Company Corporation 1993

Image sourced from mobygames.com

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What I played last week #5

Still getting behind on what I actually played for any sort of time, so here is my attempt to catch myself back up! Hi-Fi Rush [PC] This looked like a really cool game on the surface - a pleasant treat that was shadowdropped out of nowhere and not only seemed to be a fun game, but was a really competent PC port. The premise is great too, where it's a hack n' slash style action game akin to something like Bayonetta or Devil May Cry, but the twist is that it's also a Rhythm game, with your attacks either only coming out on certain beats, or having more power for staying tightly on beat, similar to something like Cadence of Hyrule. Unfortunately for me, this didn't really grab me like it seems to have grabbed a lot of people. Im not even really sure why - the art design is really strong and the combat itself is actually really fun and well conceived, but something just felt a bit uninteresting to me. I find the tone and humour of the game pretty excruciating, and the music itself wasn't that compelling to me. I actually thought the first boss I encountered was great, but for whatever reason I just never picked it up again after that. One of those games where I totally get why people enjoyed it, but it just wasn't for me. It's on gamepass so maybe I'll end up picking this one back up at some point, but there are just too many other things I feel like I want to play ahead of it at the moment.

The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang [Super Nintendo]

I had a quick go of this one as I'd heard it was a true 'hidden gem', and on first look I could see it had promise. The sprite-work is beautiful and the game has a lot of personality and you have a lot of interesting moves. My one immediate issue with this game was that it's text is SO unbeliveably slow. For some reason the font on all the text boxes is absolutely huge so it can only show 3-4 words at a time. It means that any conversation you have with anybody just ends up feeling tortuous. It sounds silly but even though it seems like a great action RPG I'm not fammiliar with, it was enough to put me off pretty quicky - my game crashed about 30 mins in and I couldn't bare to go through the intro conversations again that set up the story, so I just binned it off

Undisputed [PC]

Not going to write up too much on this one here, as the game is in early access and I imagine I'll be writing about this a lot more in the future. To be honest I thought this game was never actually going to come out, so I was surprised to see it enter early access this month. Despite the fact that Fight Night Champion has aged incredibly well even now, I am crying out for a modern boxing game and this seems like the best chance we have of something good. It has a lot of promise, but it's still very much an early access game - even ignoring the bare bones features, the boxing itself just needs to be refined a lot - punch power, knockdowns, judges scoring, the inability to cut off the ring, the ability to spam certain punches, punch tracking, footwork, etc, etc all needs work. I know that sounds ridiculous because that is basically every single element of boxing, but the framework is there. The boxer's individual personalities and movement have been captured phenomenally well, and what is there is a good start. The most encouraging thing is that the developers have been really active with pushing out updates already, so I have ever-growing faith that they will actually refine and support this game in the way that it needs. Currently it's at a state where I am glad I own it and feel like I haven't wasted my money, but I also don't feel inclined to play it much until they've improved some of the fundemental elements of the game. I did manage this in my first ever online game though after my opponent spent the whole fight trying to showboat even though they'd picked the most overpowered fighter in the entire game.

Satifying

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Feline Fighter from The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang

Image credit: NintendoComplete

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Top 47K - The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the game that’s just cat girls all the way down.

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Video games about/with vampires

1990-2000:

Night Trap (1992) → Sega CD

Master of Darkness (1992) → Game Gear, Master System

Dracula Unleashed (1993) → Sega CD, PC

Veil of Darkness (1993) → PC

The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang (1993) → SNES

BloodNet (1993) → PC

Bureau 13 (1995) → PC

Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain (1996) → PS1, PC

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (1999) → PS1, PC, Dreamcast

Vampire Hunter D (1999) → PS1

Dracula: Resurrection (1999) → PC, PS1, Android, iOS

Countdown Vampires (1999) → PS1

2000-2010:

Blade (2000) → PS1, GameBoy (different type of games)

Dracula 2: The Last Sanctuary (2000) → PC, PS2, Android, iOS

Vampire the Masquerade - Redemption (2000) → PC

From Dust till Dawn (2001) → PC

Dark Angel: Vampire Apocalypse (2001) → PS2

Vampire Night (2001) → PS2

BloodRayne (2002) → PS2, Xbox, GameCube, PC

Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003) → Xbox, PS2, PC

Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi (2003) → PC

Boktai: The Sun is in your Hand (2003) → GBA

Underworld: The Eternal War (2004) → PS2

Van Helsing (2004) → PS2, Xbox

BloodRayne 2 (2004) → PS2, Xbox, PC

Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines (2004) → PC

Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django (2004) → GBA

Darkwatch (2005) → PS2, Xbox

Lunar Knights (2006) → DS

Vampire Rain (2007) → Xbox360, PS3 (as Vampire Rain: Altered Species)

Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon (2008) → PC, iOS

A Vampyre Story (2008) → PC

Dracula: Origin (2008) → PC

Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space: Episode 3 Night of the Raving Dead (2008) → PC, PS3, Xbox360, Wii, iOS

NecroVisioN (2009) → PC

2010-2020:

The Adventures of Shuggy (2011) → PC, Xbox360

inFAMOUS: Festival of Blood (2011) → PS3

Vampire Season Monster Defense (2012) → iOS, Android

Dark (2013) → PC, Xbox360

Dracula 4: The Shadow of the Dragon (2013) → PC, iOS, Android

Dracula 5: The Blood Legacy (2013) → PC, iOS, Android

Dracula’s Legacy (2015) it’s not part of the Dracula series!!! → PC, WiiU, Switch, PS4

BloodLust Shadowhunter (2015) → PC

Vampyr (2018) → PC, PS4, XboxOne

Vampire the Masquerade - Coteries of New York (2018) → PC, PS4, XboxOne, Switch

BloodLust 2: Nemesis (2020) → PC

Not released yet (on today’s date 30/09/2020):

Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 (2021?)

Castlevania:

Chronology pre-Lords of Shadow: here

Kid Dracula (1990) → NES, one of the titles from the Castlevania Anniversary Collection (PS4, XboxOne, PC, Switch)

Kid Dracula (1993) → GameBoy

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (2010) → PS3, Xbox360, PC

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate (2013) → 3DS, PS3, Xbox360, PC

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 (2014) → PS3, Xbox360, PC

For old PC games: GOG > Steam

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The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang (Red - SNES - 1994)

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The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang was out today in 1993. A young vampire prince must save his lands from the evil Von Hesler.

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