One thing I like about it is the roster size. Don't get me wrong, I love stupid big rosters like MvC2 and KoF02, but I find it easier to hone in whoever you end up maining. Kinda like a quality over quantity almost. I don't normally feel that way about smaller rosters but for this game, I feel like it's perfect and wouldn't change anything about it.
I love the fact that some characters like Terry has multiple stages, Hokutonaru's stage changes between rounds and if specific conditions are met there can be even different characters in the background. It's those little details that make this the definitive Fatal Fury title
@@MrCageCat Both, actually. They don't play any different on either platform. BUT the Steam version always assumes you're using a stick regardless of the controller you're using. It doesn't matter THAT much to me, personally, but it could annoy others when navigating menus. Just remember what you mapped A, B, C, and D to. The Playstation version doesn't do that. Cross is ALWAYS confirm on the menus regardless of your preferred button mapping.
Whenever someone asks me what the single best fighting game to play is, I always say GAROU: Mark of the Wolves. It doesn’t have a huge roster, but it has personality. It’s not the deepest mechanics, but they work beautifully. It’s perfect in that it exceeds all of its imperfections
Sure it's not underrated in the SNK fan base, but I don't think you realize how much wider of an appeal Capcom has than SNK. Remember a couple years ago when they put Terry and smash and the only people who knew who he was were S&K fans and sakurai himself? Now compare that to when they added ryu. Everybody knows ryu. Even if they don't play Street fighter, they know who he is. So yeah, to a degree I would say this game is kind of underrated on a broader scope. It's a really good game and a high point for the series it came from, but it's still not a game that enough people are talking about. Instead of calling Justin out as a "Capcom fanboy" who just doesn't know enough about SNK, you should take a look at the series from a different view and be glad that he's showing this game off to people who might be casuals and may not even know that it exists. .
@@SirLightsOut99 Justin has expressed multiple times that Capcom Tournaments were the ones paying, which is why he focused on those games and only tried out SNK every once a while while still liking them, which I understand... Then what's the excuse for the non-top competitive crowd?, which are most players even ... pure ignorance and st*pidity to be honest. Of course SNK fans/people that played fighting games as a genre and not just capcom titles know. But it is only recently that people are giving a try to SNK titles and realize how much they missed out on
Picked this up for $2 on GOG and its been fun using my SNK 8bitdo wireless controller with it, Never been a fighting game person so this is basically my first real attempt at the genre and I gotta say even though I keep getting beat something wants me to go back and keep playing. Really good fun.
I like that they actually balanced the boss characters in this game to a point where playing as them wouldn't feel unfair, they've both got really cool movesets too. The characters I played the most with my limited knowledge though were Terry and Hotaru.
Mark of the wolves and last blade 2. Probably my favorite snk fighters. Beautiful 2d sprites, great music and fluid as hell gameplay. Love that they got re released on modern platforms
This game is NOT perfect. Far from it, actually. If this is your ALL TIME favorite fighting game, then you are really unusual in your tastes. And I do like this game (it's a good game), but c'mon, PERFECT?! Let's stop the cap.🤣
NeoGeo had a tons of very good fighting games that deserve fame From kabuki clash to ninja masters, breakers revenge, matrimelee, waku waku, karnov revenge. Less famous than the big series bit still very good fighting games
This game is the best. If it got that update that they cancelled and fixed the bugs it would have really become one of the all time greats. It was so ahead of its time.
Something about this game and how it gets everything just right, I consider it the all around best fighting game ever made. Pure classic. 3rd strike is my second favorite, but this just edges that out.
this game looks awesome! I wish i could buy it rn on xbox. that character jenet also looks amazing! plus that dress is fire.. almost looks as good as terry in this... almost but not there. terry s kennedy is still 10/10 edit: 8 minutes in and I literally only now noticed this is fightcade not an arcade playthrough mode.... wow i feel so dumb haha
Supers in this game only have a couple frames of invincibility unfortunately. Just another of many quirks that makes it a brutal game. Also supers don't have special priority over all moves so can still trade often.
Both last blades are good. Sane sprite work as this game, it's predecessor style wise. Btw are there no good Gato's or Butt's there? Was nasty with both, playing good players vs these characters is also nasty though 😂
Back in the day, people actually played Garou more than SF3. Third Strike started to be loved much later. Both are now considered by many to be the pinnacle of 2d fighting games.
First time played Mark Of The Wolves was more than two decades and first time played an SNK game was in 93 the year the AOF was released and Fatal Fury then in 94 KOF on arcade cabins and I got my pc in 96 and the first neo geo came out and I bought it I had all KOF till 99 ,Metal Slug 1 2 and X and 3 ,AOF 1,2a and 3, Samsho 1 2 ,3 and 4, mutation Nation etc... and now Justin is asking people to play the game lol ! Damn I feel like Takuma looking up to Yuri hahaha ! Who learned how to play fighting games on his own ? Cause I did ! I m a tough opponent even for Pro gamers sure they play very well and they will make me almost Rage quit lol ! But in the other hand I m gonna be a pain in the ass for them ! Cause I have played against some Pro gamers in my country and they beat me to shreds lol ! But I won some matches myself lol ! NB quickly switched to harder difficulties when I was a kid I realized easy difficulty is so boring and I had discovered that I was looking for a challenge more than fun when I play on easy mode in any game it s just cause I have to to unlock something or a trophy 🏆 lol , by the way you wanna raise your level at fighting games like reaction and stuff play Street Fighter X Tekken on hardest against Balrog and Vega team ! They play in a way you feel like you re playing Dragon Ball instead lol ! But I like it cause now my reaction is way quicker than it was ! Thank you for reading
Underrated MOTW? Hell nah bro this game is one of the best FG ever made 😱 I have the 2 Dreamcast version ( alternate covers ) of this gem Last Blade is underrated 👍
Kain and Grant are mid tier characters, and are a ton of fun. You can get a crap ton of health back by JD'ing Kain's slow ball super. When playing someone good at the game, you gotta be careful with throwing those out.
Super incorrect. They are top 3 and 4 lol. Still top Characters. Kevin is the best however with Jenet being a close 2nd. Also Kain can guarantee a seele bug where just defense is prevented for that super you mentioned.
@jwonggg good stuff as always--but since uve been covering almost all of the fatal fury series why didnt u atleast try the PS1 game of FF garou densetsu : wild ambition yet? i mean u played rival schools and other FG games based on the PS1 games.
Another move I loved doing is with Kushnood Butt, you hold the punch button in while fighting and when you release he does the massive flame punch. It's blue if you release too soon, same with kick.
@@Kain_R_Heinlein 😂 I know I know it's very subjective to say something like that but I can assure you, I played this game to death at the arcade in the year 1999 and played with all the characters even Tizoc who I loved playing with
This game is pure gold.
Music, Stages, Fighters, Game system, combos, fun factor...
One thing I like about it is the roster size. Don't get me wrong, I love stupid big rosters like MvC2 and KoF02, but I find it easier to hone in whoever you end up maining. Kinda like a quality over quantity almost.
I don't normally feel that way about smaller rosters but for this game, I feel like it's perfect and wouldn't change anything about it.
@@Jeffmetal42 no, too many missing characters. I need my gym buster lol. Shame motw2 never got finished. That roster looked sick.
I love the fact that some characters like Terry has multiple stages, Hokutonaru's stage changes between rounds and if specific conditions are met there can be even different characters in the background. It's those little details that make this the definitive Fatal Fury title
Last Blade 1 is underrated. Garou is an amazing classic.
Last Blade PERIOD is underrated. That's another game people need to know. They're both solid, but only the sequel has rollback.
@@nemoisnobody Would you recommend PC (Steam) or PS4?
@@MrCageCat Both, actually. They don't play any different on either platform. BUT the Steam version always assumes you're using a stick regardless of the controller you're using. It doesn't matter THAT much to me, personally, but it could annoy others when navigating menus. Just remember what you mapped A, B, C, and D to. The Playstation version doesn't do that. Cross is ALWAYS confirm on the menus regardless of your preferred button mapping.
Yes, play last blade
I would love to get a modern Last Blade game
We held a tournament last month for this game for all LATAM players, it was mad fun.
Whenever someone asks me what the single best fighting game to play is, I always say GAROU: Mark of the Wolves. It doesn’t have a huge roster, but it has personality. It’s not the deepest mechanics, but they work beautifully. It’s perfect in that it exceeds all of its imperfections
Garou is underrated only by capcom fanboys.... Garou is the Equivalent to SF 3S, is another Masterpiece every FG player should try out
Sure it's not underrated in the SNK fan base, but I don't think you realize how much wider of an appeal Capcom has than SNK. Remember a couple years ago when they put Terry and smash and the only people who knew who he was were S&K fans and sakurai himself? Now compare that to when they added ryu. Everybody knows ryu. Even if they don't play Street fighter, they know who he is. So yeah, to a degree I would say this game is kind of underrated on a broader scope. It's a really good game and a high point for the series it came from, but it's still not a game that enough people are talking about. Instead of calling Justin out as a "Capcom fanboy" who just doesn't know enough about SNK, you should take a look at the series from a different view and be glad that he's showing this game off to people who might be casuals and may not even know that it exists. .
@@SirLightsOut99 Justin has expressed multiple times that Capcom Tournaments were the ones paying, which is why he focused on those games and only tried out SNK every once a while while still liking them, which I understand... Then what's the excuse for the non-top competitive crowd?, which are most players even ... pure ignorance and st*pidity to be honest. Of course SNK fans/people that played fighting games as a genre and not just capcom titles know. But it is only recently that people are giving a try to SNK titles and realize how much they missed out on
Idk about that. This seems to be one of the more popular snk games with capcom fans
@@SirLightsOut99 in early 2000s it was far more popular because it was easier to pirate and play emulated compared to cps3 arcade boards
Its underrated by everyone apart from SNK fans
Picked this up for $2 on GOG and its been fun using my SNK 8bitdo wireless controller with it, Never been a fighting game person so this is basically my first real attempt at the genre and I gotta say even though I keep getting beat something wants me to go back and keep playing. Really good fun.
I like that they actually balanced the boss characters in this game to a point where playing as them wouldn't feel unfair, they've both got really cool movesets too. The characters I played the most with my limited knowledge though were Terry and Hotaru.
Mark of the wolves and last blade 2. Probably my favorite snk fighters. Beautiful 2d sprites, great music and fluid as hell gameplay. Love that they got re released on modern platforms
I had this on Sega Dreamcast. Gergeous pixesl art and fun game.
I've been playing since they announced Garou 2 was greenlit. It's great, there's always something new to learn and plays deliciously.
Garou is such a great game! I played it on the xbox 360...good times.
Been dying to see JW fight someone who plays Grant in this, finally lol.
I love playing with Grant. Just need to get a little bit better.
What is the story behind Garou? Is it like the SF Alpha series for SNK or is it it’s own franchise?
@@subterraneanretrogames556 it's Snk SFIII
@@fonofiofone Thanks!
@@subterraneanretrogames556 the closest thing snk had to alpha was the realbout series
Garou 2 needs to go the third strike route and bring back 2-3 classic Fatal Fury fighters.
Game was Clutch back in the Dreamcast Days, Kushnood Butt goes HAM !!!
The Last Blade series are underrated... Breakers series are underrated...Garou... always viewed as a masterpiece
My all time favorite fighting game. This game is perfect imo.
This game is NOT perfect. Far from it, actually. If this is your ALL TIME favorite fighting game, then you are really unusual in your tastes. And I do like this game (it's a good game), but c'mon, PERFECT?! Let's stop the cap.🤣
@@shinbakihanma2749 perfect for him doesn't mean perfect for everyone.
Agreed! My favorite ever with Breakers and Waku Waku 7!
@@shinbakihanma2749 KOF fans that can’t accept Garou is better than KOF be like:
@@c0mplex_Alebut it's not, if it was better they would make a sequel right away not 20+ years later
I have been binging Garou videos from the a-cho channel for the last couple months now. So ready for Garou 2
The last blade games are so freaking good wish we got a third installment.
The new fatal fury will never be as fun as this game was
Great game! I play regularly and have made some basic guides about the game.
I didn't choose the grappler life! The grappler life chose me!
NeoGeo had a tons of very good fighting games that deserve fame
From kabuki clash to ninja masters, breakers revenge, matrimelee, waku waku, karnov revenge. Less famous than the big series bit still very good fighting games
*JWong I need MORE Garou streams!*
Underrated? As far as I know, Mark of the Wolves is absolutely beloved by gamers.
there reason why I stay Retro, coz this kind of game is plenty back in day, the sad thing most of them barely show up even on retro game convention.
@JustinWong u should do some content with last blade 2. That game is amazing. Excellent content as always.
Just watched your story. It was awesome bro!!!!
this game was always really solid. nice to see it getting some light
Decades of watching wrestling made me a grappler. People getting salty about getting grabbed makes it even more fun.
I have, I've never stopped playing it ever since 2003.
My man went low you got Justin wonged in the intro
I play it all the time! Most of my local friends hate it though. It's available on Steam. And PS4. It also has rollback netcode.
"... here's to victory"
[Everyone that grew up playing this game turns around and looks at Justin]
"That's not what she's saying."
This game is the best. If it got that update that they cancelled and fixed the bugs it would have really become one of the all time greats. It was so ahead of its time.
Bought this game for like $2 bucks and was so happy to dig into the mechanics that I didn't understand back when I had it on dreamcast in my childhood
This was how SNK showed CAPCOM how to change the look of their flagship star... RYU/TERRY..
Terry redesign is my fave character redesign ever
Something about this game and how it gets everything just right, I consider it the all around best fighting game ever made. Pure classic. 3rd strike is my second favorite, but this just edges that out.
Snk games are great loved those games in the arcades 😀😀😀
Love the sprites and backgrounds
On Dreamcast baby!
Justin: you should try this underrated gem
Me, a Mark of the wolves player sonce 2006: is this an out of season April fool joke?
Garou is the snk equivalent of 3rd strike for me
everytime i watch justin play jenet i feel bad cos of how bad i am ,,then i remember its justin the literal god playing
Garou is awesome not overrated 😁
Absolutely awesome!!!
Best SNK game of all time!!! 👽
I frickin love Garou Motw, I’m probably the youngest garou fan ever. Super hyped for the sequel!
Garou has some fucking nice animation man.
I remember beating this game at
an Northern Kentucky arcade a few years ago with Khushnood Butt. Very fun game.
Are there still fighting game enthusiasts out there who don't know that Garou is one of the best entries in the genre ever made?
My 3rd favorite SNK fighting game after The Last Blade 2, and Samurai Shodown V Special.
It can't possibly be underrated. I'm constantly hearing about it for years.
The Game that enjoys Max and Ignant Rizzy.
B Jenet has a JD 3rd special, Rock has 3 , Butt has 3 and finally Gato. If J am correct. Rocks is the best 👌
My fav oldschool snk game!
I played Garou and Last Blade 1 and 2 around the same time... I WAS IN LOVE! Great games
Please play breakers revenge too. Its an underappreciated
This game is beautiful
this game looks awesome! I wish i could buy it rn on xbox. that character jenet also looks amazing! plus that dress is fire.. almost looks as good as terry in this... almost but not there. terry s kennedy is still 10/10
edit: 8 minutes in and I literally only now noticed this is fightcade not an arcade playthrough mode.... wow i feel so dumb haha
I love this game as a hotaru main
Justing imitating to Jenet is so funny
Supers in this game only have a couple frames of invincibility unfortunately. Just another of many quirks that makes it a brutal game. Also supers don't have special priority over all moves so can still trade often.
Garou is such a great game.
I suck at it, but it’s so fun.
But I love the Fatal Fury series
It's very well rated at least by me
First played on Dreamcast. Classic fighting game.
Garou is the 3rd strike of the kof world
SF4 devs deserve all the props.
Love this video Justin! Awesome game!
I used to play Hotaru and Kim Jae Hoon at my local arcade. Don't know the tiers, and I was better at CVS2, but I still had fun. Good times.
Both last blades are good. Sane sprite work as this game, it's predecessor style wise.
Btw are there no good Gato's or Butt's there? Was nasty with both, playing good players vs these characters is also nasty though 😂
I'm always impressed with how well you read and respond to the Chat with full ass conversation and simultaneously give high level players that work.
Bought garou about a year ago. Maximillian put me on to it
That’s how I know Justin from the china town fair days ….. where the best in the world would come for competition…lower manhattan stand up
Not sure if it was underrated back in the days, but now its not, its a great game, awesome graphics, good gameplay, nice package overall!
Garou is so sick. I should redownload it.
I still have this on my Dreamcast
Background making Jwong look like he has an emo haircut
My man's was hitting that down back button! ↙️
I would say it’s not underrated but it’s surprising how many people don’t know about it.
Love this game
This game looks good.
Back in the day, people actually played Garou more than SF3. Third Strike started to be loved much later. Both are now considered by many to be the pinnacle of 2d fighting games.
This and SF3 are the finest 2d fighters ever. Maybe throw in GGXX in the holy 3
First time played Mark Of The Wolves was more than two decades and first time played an SNK game was in 93 the year the AOF was released and Fatal Fury then in 94 KOF on arcade cabins and I got my pc in 96 and the first neo geo came out and I bought it I had all KOF till 99 ,Metal Slug 1 2 and X and 3 ,AOF 1,2a and 3, Samsho 1 2 ,3 and 4, mutation Nation etc... and now Justin is asking people to play the game lol ! Damn I feel like Takuma looking up to Yuri hahaha ! Who learned how to play fighting games on his own ? Cause I did ! I m a tough opponent even for Pro gamers sure they play very well and they will make me almost Rage quit lol ! But in the other hand I m gonna be a pain in the ass for them ! Cause I have played against some Pro gamers in my country and they beat me to shreds lol ! But I won some matches myself lol ! NB quickly switched to harder difficulties when I was a kid I realized easy difficulty is so boring and I had discovered that I was looking for a challenge more than fun when I play on easy mode in any game it s just cause I have to to unlock something or a trophy 🏆 lol , by the way you wanna raise your level at fighting games like reaction and stuff play Street Fighter X Tekken on hardest against Balrog and Vega team ! They play in a way you feel like you re playing Dragon Ball instead lol ! But I like it cause now my reaction is way quicker than it was ! Thank you for reading
Garou and 3.3 are still the best 2D fighting games
My feet smell neutral.
The PS2 version of this was the best
Underrated MOTW? Hell nah bro this game is one of the best FG ever made 😱
I have the 2 Dreamcast version ( alternate covers ) of this gem
Last Blade is underrated 👍
White Griffith is one of the best garou players.
He plays random and is rank S
Japan's top arcade players laugh at online ones
Well i wouldn't really call Garou "underrated", it's pretty known for being...well good.
Game still looks amazing.
RIP Counter Super. You were so close!
If i may greedily ask to alway have twitch chat on yt clips, it would be most enjoyed.
Regardless, keep up the great editing and content.
Kain and Grant are mid tier characters, and are a ton of fun.
You can get a crap ton of health back by JD'ing Kain's slow ball super. When playing someone good at the game, you gotta be careful with throwing those out.
Super incorrect. They are top 3 and 4 lol. Still top Characters. Kevin is the best however with Jenet being a close 2nd. Also Kain can guarantee a seele bug where just defense is prevented for that super you mentioned.
@jwonggg good stuff as always--but since uve been covering almost all of the fatal fury series why didnt u atleast try the PS1 game of FF garou densetsu : wild ambition yet? i mean u played rival schools and other FG games based on the PS1 games.
I dont think Ive ever heard Garou referred to as "underrated."
Is Garou really underrated?
I'd argue that both of the Last Blade games and Samurai Shodown IV and VS are more underrated than MOTW.
The cast of this game is a lot more interesting than sf3
You should try blade strangers btw.
I mastered this game, I love Rocks Lazer after he throws you
Another move I loved doing is with Kushnood Butt, you hold the punch button in while fighting and when you release he does the massive flame punch. It's blue if you release too soon, same with kick.
"Mastered this game" 😂 sure pal
@@Kain_R_Heinlein 😂 I know I know it's very subjective to say something like that but I can assure you, I played this game to death at the arcade in the year 1999 and played with all the characters even Tizoc who I loved playing with
Justin you must play RABBIT!!! 💪🏻