At first when I played the game I thought “Hey, this a kick ass game with some really neat features” and the fact that I didn’t spend much time on it due to working conditions. Now that I have a LOT more free time, until the middle of this month, I sat down and played this game again. And man, how I was wrong to make this game shine.

Graphics-
Granted it’s a PS1 game, so I’ll go easy on it. I have to admit that I am very surprised at what Square and DF were able to pull in this game. All the “normal” characters got a face lift on the details and poly count, but not so much for the monters. Too bad… Anywho, the FMV movies are quite nice and the backgrounds for the fighting stages are so much more detailed and no worries of having to look at crap block models.

Sound/Music-
As I said before in my previous review, it’s so much better. I’m glad they spent time on it and made it so that I didn’t have to turn my TV to mute. However, the dungeon music is not so good. I don’t feel like I’m in a dungeon being raped by a bear or a “golden ape”, and why do bears in this game sound like Godzilla?

Gameplay-
Ok, enough being Mr. Nice Guy on this one. There have been rare moments in games that I’ve played before where I had actually broken a controller in a fit of titanic rage. This is one of them. At first I played the Tournament mode on, well NORMAL. I died more times than Freddy Krueger when I came across one of the new fighters, Chaco, the ball busting bitch of Tobal 2. Fucking whore. Even remembering her stupid smile and sound bytes piss me off. That’s when I went and changed the settings to EASY. Now mind you, that I am pretty good at 3-D fighting games. Though Tobal 2 isn’t really a 3-D fighting game, it’s more like a Morman trying to be a New York pimp. It just doesn’t fucking work.
As I left off before ranting again, I changed the settings to EASY. The first fight was of course easy, but then the game tricks you and rapes you in every hole of your body in the second fight. Same goes for the dungeon mode. The Practice dungeon is pretty good and it is somewhat easy at times. But when you get to the second dungeon, it’s like the game goes from NORMAL mode to FUCKING INSANE. You have bears that will try to rip off your feet and golden monkey’s trying to stick their wang in your mouth via Face Hugger style. Man, it’s like the level up system doesn’t even matter in this game. Not like Erghiez, and that was a 3-D fighter and a RPG!

Controls-
Is this really a 3-D fighting game? I don’t have a clue with all the tossing and man handling in the game. It CAN be fun with the monsters being used, which there is 185 of them, in a 2 player VS. It’s almost like the first game, but there have been improvements on how many combos you can pull off. Don’t expect the same while playing in the Quest Mode. You have a limited amount of combos and moves, plus the enemies LOVE to block every move. FUN. I have no fucking idea how to grab Gren’s testicles and rip’m off. Appearently the other characters know how to do that to me.

Stumble it!