I’ve been a huge fan of developer Four Fats, previously known as Mooff Games, for many years now. They’ve always seemed to “speak my language" as it’s obvious we enjoyed the same type of games growing up and they’ve infused the essence of those games into their own releases by way of numerous references and gameplay styles. For instance, they were obviously big fans of Street Fighter II. Their Blackmoor series are action platform games but feature combat, characters, and special moves that are straight up homages to Capcom’s classic fighters. This even culminated in them creating their very own fighting game called Super Boys – The Big Fight which featured characters from across their entire library of games all duking it out. Then at the end of October last year they brought out a direct sequel to Blackmoor called Blackmoor 2 – The Traitor King (Free) which continued the epic tale from the first game and brought more platforming/fighting game action.
I loved Blackmoor 2 even more than the original, and we picked it as our Game of the Week when it released last fall. But you could tell that the Street Fighter II bug was continuing to gnaw away at the Four Fats. You had all these great characters in Blackmoor 2, and this great combat engine, so why not make another fighting game in a similar vein to Super Boys" Well that’s what they’ve done, except this time that game, dubbed “Super Pub Fighte...