Sengoku 3 - I finally played it

Well, I was interested in this game, since I seen first pics of it on the net, over a year ago, and than GO did a feature on it aswell. The game looked good, 2d beat them up, with the cast of cool ninjas, fighting enemies in 6 big levels. Or so I though, till I finally played the game.

Ok, good things first:

Its a 2 beat-them-up :)
Nice selection of characters to choose from, (even cooler woth 2 enemies joining you in later levels), and nice character art, and each has their own style of fighting and weapon.
Cool Fighting Combo System with Addition of Magic Elemental Attacks unique for each character.

Now bad:

Bland boring levels and gameplay. Levels are pretty short and not very detailed at all.
Even worse enemy designs, there are like 7 types of bad guys in whole game. You know, it really exciting to fight same kind over and over again.
Not fun boss fights. Bosses are bland and somewhat cheap.
Cheapest final boss ever - He pretty much blocks all your sword attacks, so you have attack him with hand combo, which is much less powerful, plus, after each time you hurt him, he goes into invincible mode and does his magic attack, or his combo on you killing you. So its one attack chance per life, and when you hurt him to take about half of hist total life bars, he regains half of that health back !

It sad when the game you were looking forward trying, dissapoints you, and thats what happened to me. Now I wished they would get MS3 or 4 instead this turd of the game :(

Edit: Added Cool FIghting system to Good Points :)

i liked sengoku 3 a lot. i thought it was a big improvement over the last two, in terms of gameplay and graphics. also, i liked everything you liked about it, despair.

what i didn't like, however, was the fact that the enemy waves were too long. 4-5 enemies would appear, you kill them all, then another 4-5 enemies appear, you kill them all, and then another 4-5 enemies appear. this made advancing in the levels longer than it should, and more tedious than it should be. two waves is good, and three waves occasionally is good, but 3-5 waves everytime is a bit much. that's my only real gripe with the game. i didn't mind the limited types of enemies.

I need to play this game. I have not played a good final fight clone in a good while.

Why must the arcades near me suck!!!!!!!!

Sengoku 3 is a disappointing Neo game, meaning that it is only better than 97% of all the games on the newer consoles. :cool:

I played Sengoku 3 and didn't really give a damn for it either.

I agree with you on the good parts, Despair. The character art is wonderful, and there is some nice animation. I like the combo system that rewards you for constantly thrashing the enemies.

One thing I missed was the transformation feature from the original Sengoku titles. Without that, it wasn't quite Sengoku for me.

That last boss is a cheese king. The number of credits I blew trying to beat him... Grrr! :mad:

Wow, Yoshi, its about time someone whos on my boat say the truth about Neo games.

But its like 4 against everyone else on this board.

Thats the thing Nash, those enemy waves were pretty boring after the while. Its the same purple swordmen, after blue spearmen, after yellow samurais. And the same order again, and again. And then you fight some killer toads, and ghosts spheares, and then swordsmen and samurai are back.

I truly expected something better in both graphical presentation, and fun from this game.

Well, I'm not against Neo Geo games at all. I love my Neo Geo, and the games I own, and I like to play them in arcades, when I have a chance.

But Sengoku 3 was a real dissapointment.

And Last Boss is cheapness just for cheapness sake. Good way to lure the quarters out of your pocket, and it works well, but makes you mad in the process.

i also liked the fighting system as a whole... but the rest of your points are very valid...

... the game is just so bland, too bad it could have been much better...

Sengoku 3 is decent. I like it enough. But it isn't even in the same league as Final Fight. And FF came out when? '87, '88? If you have a JAMMA rig, just get an old Final Fight board. You'll be much happier.