New Challenger Shows Up
Slap Happy Rhythm Busters is a little known ridiculously named fighting game released on the PSX in 2000. Notable for its vibrant and weird design, its cell shaded 3D graphics during a time when such a thing was rare, and its unique gimmick in which super moves are performed in a Beatmania-esque mini game.
This video game contains examples of:
- Acrofatic: Holemon is surprising mobile for someone his weight.
- Aerith and Bob: The names of the characters go from Chad and April to Zekoo and Mercantile.
- Almighty Janitor: Trash, quite literally, is a trash man who fights people.
- Artificial Stupidity: Despite the button reading, the AI still manages to usually not be much of a challenge.
- Awesome, but Impractical: This is Nitro in a nutshell, although the biggest standout in his move list is his beam spam super move, which has such a long start up that it's almost impossible to safely use in any given situation, and even then it can be simply blocked.
- BFG: Nitro and Frosty have big guns they can use as special moves. April's revolver, used in her normals, is also rather large.
- Clothing Damage: April can and will have her hat knocked straight off of her head.
- The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: There's some blatant button reading going on the AI end, which is more evident with characters that have Shoryuken-type attacks.
- Damn You, Muscle Memory!: Players might get a little frustrated at first when Shoryuken-type moves use a down-down input instead of the more commonly used DP motion
- Expy: Mia clearly emulates Chun-Li in appearance. Stealth also looks very much like a Predator.
- Forced Transformation: Holeman can turn his unfortunate victims into chickens with his birdcage helmet.
- Gasshole: Euri utilizes the exhaust from her jetpack in some of her attacks.
- Glass Cannon: If someone can manage to grab the upper hand, Mercantile will go down very quickly.
- Gratuitous English: A given, due to the lack of export. Extremely apparent in some loading screen comics.
- Hammerspace: Trash's vacuum is capable of sucking up entire vehicles.
- Hitbox Dissonance: Nitro clearly has terrible aim, as his machine gun attacks don't hit unless his target makes contact with the actual gun.
- Joke Character: As vibrant and strange the cast is, Frosty manages to stick out as this.
- Kamehame Hadoken: One of Ramos' supers is a huge Kamehameha-esque beam.
- Mighty Glacier: Nitro is a very slow but huge purple man who can turn his fists into heavy objects.
- No Plot? No Problem!: There's a little backstory in the loading comics, but it's usually nothing more than a brief glimpse into a character's personality as opposed to why everyone is fighting each other.
- One-Handed Zweihänder: Rude Boy and Jakoo use big swords, although the former mostly fights hand to hand.
- Shotoclone: Ramos, and by extension Dark Ramos, have the usual fireball and dragon punch moves.
- Some Dexterity Required: Largely averted; the specials and super moves are very easy to pull off in comparison to other fighters, never getting more complex than a simple quarter circle motion.
- Spell My Name With An S: Oreg was spelled "Oleg" in his previous appearance in another fighting game by Polygon Magic known as Vs.
- Superpowered Evil Side: Jakoo and Dark Ramos are evil versions of Zekoo and Ramos, respectively. Rude Boy can also do this mid-fight with a super move, although it doesn't do much besides make him bigger.
- Tag Team:
- Both Chad-Gram and Vivian-Roxy are two characters that fight in a piggyback formation.
- Merchantile has his wolf fight first, only participating in the fight when the wolf gets knocked out.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Chad-Gram appears to have this as a move, where he hacks a green bubble across the screen.
