Legend of Success Joe

Legend of Success Joe is a Boxing Beat em up hybrid, developed by Wave Corporation and published by SNK in 1991, its based on the Manga Ashita No Joe. The game is normally considered to be one of the worst games on the Neo Geo system.

Why Isn't a Legend

 * 1) Despite the capabilities of the NeoGeo the game at best looks like a Launch Genesis game, with dark and few colors, and overall the game looking poor.
 * 2) Not only the game looks like a launch game for the Sega Genesis, but it also sounds like one, the quality of the music exactly like the one Genesis games have, again despite the fact that the Neo Geo can produce a much better melodies.
 * 3) *The sound effect are really pathetic and unsatisfying.
 * 4) The animations of the character lack frames and look really lazy.
 * 5) The controls are awful, despite having 4 buttons to use, the only uses 2, one for blocking and one for punching, with the ability of pulling out different moves, blocking and dodging, by pressing directions plus the buttons, and you can also use power moves by pressing a direction plus both buttons, asides that they assigned too many functions to just 2 buttons despite having other 2 that they could have used, which can be a little hard to remember, the main problem is that the controls are really stiff and the power moves don't work very well, and the movement in general is extremely sluggish.
 * 6) * as an extra the controls for dodging are also slow specially and make hard to evade attacks.
 * 7) The combat system, the fighting is really slow and more frustrating than satisfying.
 * 8) *There is zero any feedback when blocking attacks.
 * 9) *Attacks are awkward to use due to lacking range.
 * 10) *There's also no reason to us attacks that aren't the straight punch, as they dont take more life from the opponent and have much lower range.
 * 11) *there is no reason not to use power attacks during the entire game, they do not require any charge, they aren't any slower than the basic moves and you don't loose health when using them, making the basic moves pointless.
 * 12) *The difficulty is maddening:
 * 13) *In the beat em up sections while you fight the enemies 1 at the time, only one is enough to give you a hard time, they come close constantly, attack you incredibly fast and interrupt your attack, completely destroying you without you being able to do much except mashing buttons in hope of you hitting your enemies.
 * 14) *There are some enemies that use extremely cheap moves, like jumping double kicks, or jumping extremely high, which are moves you cannot do at all, and make the fighting even more unbalanced against you.
 * 15) *The boxing fights are just as annoying, the enemy dodges over 80% of your attacks without any problem and counters you constantly, so in desperation you will start again mashing buttons, and resort to abusing of credits to beat the fights.
 * 16) *The stages have a 3 minute time limit, making everything even more frustrating, of course if you survive that long.
 * 17) *Due to the awkward movement and attacks you will be lucky if you hit your opponents.
 * 18) No ending just cuts to the credits, despite the game previously giving you context for the fights, it doesn't bother to give you the aftermath of the final fight against Mendoza (which is also cannonicaly the final fight in the manga too).

The Only Redeeming Quality

 * 1) The music, despite it's quality isn't bad.

Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZaMWairHsg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w7izTXSwVs