#1023 Toy Fighter (ARC) Boss: Toy King playthrough.
2 years ago
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Abdullah Zafar
A playthrough of the unplayable boss character Toy King in Toy Fighter.
A couple of weeks ago I reached 2400 subscribers. Thanks as always to everyone who’s been watching, commenting, sharing these videos and everything in between; it means a hell of a lot.
This is one of those fighting games I was introduced to years back by an inspiration of mine called BigBangBlitz. He did a series years back called “Criminally Overlooked Games” which introduced me to the likes of Violent Storm, Guardians, Osman, and the title we’re looking at today, Toy Fighter.
Toy Fighter is a Naomi fighting game title which was supposed to be released for Dreamcast at one point in time, but unfortunately was eventually cancelled, like so many titles when the Dreamcast was discontinued in 2001. This meant that, like many Model 3 titles as well, it remained pretty obscure and inaccessible until improvements in emulation in the 2010s. To say the 2010s has been the golden age of modern emulation would be a bloody understatement; in the space of a decade we’ve gone from finally being able to finally much beloved Naomi and Model 3 titles, to 3DS emulation, to decent Xbox emulation, to PS3 emulation, to running Wii U games better than the console itself could run them. I mean, good lord, what a time to be alive.
Toy Fighter, is, as BBB himself summed up, a criminally overlooked game. It’s damn good, but also damn unknown. That said, if there’s one thing this channel does it’s attempt to inform you of more obscure titles, and this is one of those times where it’s nice to share a hidden gem like this.
Toy Fighter is one of those games which has a simple but effective premise. In essence, it’s a kid making his toys fight in various places around his house, and pretending its an entire different place as a result, which is then turned into these fantasy fights. Until the aliens land, anyway.
Toy Fighter is pretty unconventional for a fighting game, but it will be vaguely familiar to you if you ever played the Fighter’s Destiny games on the Nintendo 64. In those games, you didn’t simply win a round or two to defeat an opponent; instead, you had to earn points for each round, which were acquired in various ways and even gave different values; a knockout giving one point, a successful throw giving two, etc. Toy Fighter has a very similar premise, and if memory serves was made by some of the same people as the Fighter’s Destiny series, which would make sense. Here, instead of points, you have a certain number of lives, with a knockout giving one point, a successful throw giving two, etc etc. The game has a couple of interesting mechanics; the arena is endless by surrounded by a (literal) ring of some sort, which you can even doing high-flying wrestling-style moves off the top of it. You have a certain number of “bomb” attacks; these are this game’s super moves, and are done by pressing all three buttons together. You only get a few of these per credit (yes, per credit, not per match), but if they hit they’ll not only knock out the opponent instantly if they aren’t blocked, but they’ll grant a whopping three points. However, they’re slow to come out and can be blocked with good timing, making them a sort of high-risk, high-reward move.
In addition to this is the fact that you can actually land hits on your opponent pre-fight if you so want to. Each hit you land however will see one of your “bombs” taken away, meaning that you have to think carefully as to whether it’s really worth it or not.
The game features 10 playable characters, as well as one unplayable boss, Toy King. I get the feeling that Toy King was originally going to be unlockable or something, as the boss version of him sees to have a few moves I couldn’t work out how to use, seemed to deal a bit more damage than I did when playing as him, and even seemed to have a unique intro animation. Maybe that’s just me, I don’t know, but it seemed to be that way. Toy King is really easy to hack as well, and can even be hacked on the title screen, as the character values in this game scroll from left to right like they did in most Sega arcade fighting game titles.
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A couple of weeks ago I reached 2400 subscribers. Thanks as always to everyone who’s been watching, commenting, sharing these videos and everything in between; it means a hell of a lot.
This is one of those fighting games I was introduced to years back by an inspiration of mine called BigBangBlitz. He did a series years back called “Criminally Overlooked Games” which introduced me to the likes of Violent Storm, Guardians, Osman, and the title we’re looking at today, Toy Fighter.
Toy Fighter is a Naomi fighting game title which was supposed to be released for Dreamcast at one point in time, but unfortunately was eventually cancelled, like so many titles when the Dreamcast was discontinued in 2001. This meant that, like many Model 3 titles as well, it remained pretty obscure and inaccessible until improvements in emulation in the 2010s. To say the 2010s has been the golden age of modern emulation would be a bloody understatement; in the space of a decade we’ve gone from finally being able to finally much beloved Naomi and Model 3 titles, to 3DS emulation, to decent Xbox emulation, to PS3 emulation, to running Wii U games better than the console itself could run them. I mean, good lord, what a time to be alive.
Toy Fighter, is, as BBB himself summed up, a criminally overlooked game. It’s damn good, but also damn unknown. That said, if there’s one thing this channel does it’s attempt to inform you of more obscure titles, and this is one of those times where it’s nice to share a hidden gem like this.
Toy Fighter is one of those games which has a simple but effective premise. In essence, it’s a kid making his toys fight in various places around his house, and pretending its an entire different place as a result, which is then turned into these fantasy fights. Until the aliens land, anyway.
Toy Fighter is pretty unconventional for a fighting game, but it will be vaguely familiar to you if you ever played the Fighter’s Destiny games on the Nintendo 64. In those games, you didn’t simply win a round or two to defeat an opponent; instead, you had to earn points for each round, which were acquired in various ways and even gave different values; a knockout giving one point, a successful throw giving two, etc. Toy Fighter has a very similar premise, and if memory serves was made by some of the same people as the Fighter’s Destiny series, which would make sense. Here, instead of points, you have a certain number of lives, with a knockout giving one point, a successful throw giving two, etc etc. The game has a couple of interesting mechanics; the arena is endless by surrounded by a (literal) ring of some sort, which you can even doing high-flying wrestling-style moves off the top of it. You have a certain number of “bomb” attacks; these are this game’s super moves, and are done by pressing all three buttons together. You only get a few of these per credit (yes, per credit, not per match), but if they hit they’ll not only knock out the opponent instantly if they aren’t blocked, but they’ll grant a whopping three points. However, they’re slow to come out and can be blocked with good timing, making them a sort of high-risk, high-reward move.
In addition to this is the fact that you can actually land hits on your opponent pre-fight if you so want to. Each hit you land however will see one of your “bombs” taken away, meaning that you have to think carefully as to whether it’s really worth it or not.
The game features 10 playable characters, as well as one unplayable boss, Toy King. I get the feeling that Toy King was originally going to be unlockable or something, as the boss version of him sees to have a few moves I couldn’t work out how to use, seemed to deal a bit more damage than I did when playing as him, and even seemed to have a unique intro animation. Maybe that’s just me, I don’t know, but it seemed to be that way. Toy King is really easy to hack as well, and can even be hacked on the title screen, as the character values in this game scroll from left to right like they did in most Sega arcade fighting game titles.
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