Cardinal Syn - The Worst Fighting Game

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• RD

  @rddnone · 2 years ago

  &quot;There&apos;s a tournament for ultimate power.&quot;<br>&quot;Who are we sending?&quot;<br>&quot;....Finkster.&quot;

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• ZA

  @ZaneTheZaniest8 · 2 years ago

  Maybe the real Cardinal Syn was the unresponsive controls we used along the way.

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• MM

  @mmichaelson · 2 years ago

  Hecklar is such s great name for an evil jester.

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• KF

  @KFCuser · 2 years ago

  I&apos;ll mention it just because most people will never find this out by themselves: if a second player picks up the second controller and presses Start when the other player is in Tournament mode, you&apos;ll hear the announcer shout &apos;&apos; A new challenger comes ! &apos;&apos; and the match will stop right there. The character selection screen will pop up, second player will choose a character and whoever wins will keep going through the tournament solo.

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• NI

  @Nintenboy01 · 2 years ago

  It was actually pretty rare for CGI cutscenes on PS1 to have voice acting - maybe the console was prone to audio sync issues or something?

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• SH

  @shakes5847 · 2 years ago

  Fear effect was so god damn good and parts of it still hold up incredibly well today. The writing and characters were semi-intelligently handled and had a adult theme that pushed the boundaries for the time in a usually non-cringey way (Hana excluded). &nbsp;That game legit creeped me out as a kid. Not all of it worked but it deserves better than it&apos;s current fate.

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• RE

  @registereduser · 2 years ago

  You know we NEED a Fear Effect WH episode now.

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• IC

  @icey_911 · 2 years ago

  imagining DSP trying to input a fireball attack in this game

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• IN

  @insertfunnynamehere8984 · 2 years ago

  Everyone loves some big honkers in their games

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• FB

  @fbmb1337 · 2 years ago (edited)

  In this game&apos;s lukewarm defense, Mortal Kombat&apos;s later games implemented Brutalities in much the same way as these finishers, except they somehow made them worse by usually adding extra gimmicky requirements for them like &quot;Land this special move three times during the round&quot;. So congrats Syn, your first attempt at this mechanic wasn&apos;t the worst iteration of it!

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• DR

  @drakewarnock1239 · 2 years ago

  I remember this game! My uncle was one of the artists, so I&apos;m happy that you liked the design and everything in the game since that&apos;s what he worked on.<br>Also, I can confirm that the mocap was done by random employees, because he did the mocap for Plague. I remember him telling me about how he had to have his leg pulled up in a sling so he could hobble around on the peg leg.

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• GR

  @Grave_Wax · 2 years ago

  This almost seems like what would happen if Midway made a fighting game in the 90s within the Gauntlet universe. It has that vibe to me.

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