Reviews

1986 Imagine Software (UK)
by Julian Horn

One of the greatest disillusions I got on the Speccy. Come on people, never release a bad sequel no matter what game it is. If it is worse, why release it?
I bet any software house representative would reply to my question with: Money, money, money!!
But in the end I guess it's the players fault, after all we ONLY look at the COVER!!

I expected much less and this is why I award this hidden jewel with a 3 .

Absolute horrid sequel. No charm to this whatsoever, all the fun of the original replaced with bog-standard tripe. What the heck was the thinking behind this?

I had a feeling this would be crap looking at the scores, and that's exactly how it turned out. I suppose changing the format from the original was to bring so originality in it and spark up their own ideas rather than relying on the arcade developer for them, but why did they have to make it so boring and so poor? Like Full Throttle 2 I refuse to classify this as a sequel.

by James Software

Well, I don't understand how Yie Ar Kung Fu 2 can have an average of only 4.05/10 [from 23 votes] on WoS while at the same time Kung-Fu Master has 5.90/10 [from 48 votes], the earlier is much more playable, funny and varied than the crappier latter. Truth is I might be influenced by my liking of YAKF2 since childhood, that ingenious and impressionable period, but the same can probably be said of the Kung-Fu Master voters. In fact, I've just tried again Yie Ar Kung Fu 2 and still I find it overall decent and playable, with funny opponents, for example the first being a sort of chinese using his wavy ponytail as a whip. It's a bit clumsy and not very responsive, but I won't give it less than
3/5

Bland graphics, non-existent sound and so easy it can be completed while playing blindfolded (well, almost). Not a patch on the first episode. Thinking that this waste of code was released at full price gives the idiom "daylight robbery" a new meaning. Avoid at all costs.