Mighty Final Fight

About Mighty Final Fight

Mighty Final Fight (1993) is Capcom's comic, super-deformed NES spin-off of Final Fight, with all three heroes, character levelling and new special moves.

Mighty Final Fight in Depth

The premise is that of the original Final Fight, retold as comedy. The Mad Gear Gang, Metro City's dominant street gang, has kidnapped Jessica, daughter of Mayor Haggar, and Haggar sets out to rescue her with Cody, her boyfriend, and Guy, Cody's training partner. In this version the gang's boss Belger kidnaps her because he is infatuated and wants to force her to marry him. The characters are drawn in a childlike "super deformed" style, in the spirit of Famicom games such as Konami's Kid Dracula and Namco's Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti, and the final boss is the mechanically enhanced Cyborg Belger.

Like the SNES ports it is single-player only, but unlike them it keeps all three arcade heroes: Cody, who mixes karate and boxing, the ninjutsu master Guy, and the former professional wrestler Haggar, each with almost all of their arcade abilities. Borrowing from the Famicom Double Dragon, it adds an experience system: defeating enemies earns points, more for stronger finishing moves, and each of six levels raises attack power and maximum vitality. Cody and Guy start at level 1 and Haggar at level 3, and at level 4 each learns a new special, Cody's Tornado Sweep projectile, Guy's Tornado Kick and Haggar's Running Clothesline. Weapons depend on the character, a knife, shuriken or oversized mallet, and five stages and two bonus rounds feature childlike versions of Mad Gear bosses such as Thrasher, Abigail and Murasame.

Making Mighty Final Fight

Capcom developed and published it for the NES in 1993, by which time Final Fight had already been ported to the Super NES. Rather than attempt a straight conversion, Capcom reworked the arcade game into a comical, chibi-style retelling, keeping all three playable characters that the SNES versions had cut and adding features taken from Technōs Japan's Famicom Double Dragon, including experience points that unlock new moves. AllGame's Christian Huey was generally positive, writing that "while there are better titles to choose from in the genre, Mighty Final Fight has enough going for it to make it a guilty pleasure".