On paper it had some good ideas, but the overreliance on charged special attacks makes them impractical to use much of the time, and the blatant cheating by the CPU exacerbates it even further. The most egregious example of such being how you require "Inner Strength" to use special moves, but a computer-controlled opponent is free to spam them as much as they want, even with a blatantly empty IS gauge.
Still, credit where it's due: EC is much better at being a fighting game than X-Perts is at being a beat 'em up. Larcen's game was fairly decent, but Shadow deserved way better than this crude, fugly little spinoff.
The left lady in the circle looks like Geena Davis.
You might like Guardian Heroes and Yu Yu Hakusho Sunset Fighters then. Those are fighting games that go up to 4 players that can hop in the foreground and background.
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More than likely Genesis fans as well
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Why is Mortal Kombat popular then?
On paper it had some good ideas, but the overreliance on charged special attacks makes them impractical to use much of the time, and the blatant cheating by the CPU exacerbates it even further. The most egregious example of such being how you require "Inner Strength" to use special moves, but a computer-controlled opponent is free to spam them as much as they want, even with a blatantly empty IS gauge.
I agree with you about Sega needing to bring back Eternal Champions for a second run, especially since they're doing the same thing with a couple of their other IPs as well. Also if you want to know, a film adaptation of Eternal Champions is supposedly being developed right now.
