You punch your way through literally endless waves of cannon fodder until you get where you’re going – in this case, the game’s next mission marker. In return, I was given a game that bored me to tears: Anarchy Reigns is a fully-3D evolution of the brawler, with similar roots in classic games like Final Fight or Streets of Rage, overlaid with Platinum Games’ typical over-the-top Japanese-style insanity. Not really thinking, I put the game on Easy mode, because I have long-standing childhood trauma from the many Capcom and Konami games I played back on the SNES. This was a mistake I first made when I began the “Black Side” of Anarchy Reigns‘ two parallel storylines. Jack and Blacker Baron show a mutant the business end of a chainsaw.
It’s the kind of game where you get out of it whatever you put in if you’re looking for a fun, entertaining brawler, you have to make sure you play it under the right pretenses. In a number of ways, this too applies to Platinum Games and Sega’s latest, Anarchy Reigns. After sufficiently cranking up the difficulty and switching from automatic to manual transmission, I began to have considerably more fun with games like Rush: The Rock. For those games to truly be enjoyable, I had to take matters in to my own hands and make them fun by restoring some of the nail-biting tension that the arcade’s token system imbued.
Removed from the environment of the arcade, some of them barely even resembled games at all and were reduced down to “hold the gas pedal to win”.
When I initially got it, I was a little bit disappointed all of the games included were almost insultingly easy and incredibly simple. I’m sure we’ve all bought at least one retro arcade game collection – for me, my most recent purchase was Midway Arcade Treasures Volume 3, which contains a collection of racing games from the early-to-mid 90′s.
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