Welcome to your doom.
The Super Famicom port of Street Fighter II was released in June 1992. Telenet’s Doomsday Warrior then hit the market later that year in November. It’s unknown how long it was in development, but based on the final product, one could easily surmise that it was slapped together as quickly as possible to capitalize on the red-hot fighting game crazy spurred by Capcom’s worldwide hit. Now, the game joins the Nintendo Switch Online roster – but it is worth a look all these years after release?
There are seven playable characters in Doomsday Warrior, all part of a group of warriors called the Doom Squad, fighting under the influence of the evil wizard Main. One betrays the group – that’s the character you choose – and must fight their former comrades to protect the Earth. Layban and Sledge are the two diametrically-opposed karate heroes, and Daisy is a half-woman, half-plant in the vein of supervillainess Poison Ivy. Grimrock is an anthropomorphic lizard guy, Amon is a post-apocalyptic punk straight out of Fist of the North Star, and Nuform is a shapeshifter made of metallic liquid. And rounding out the cast is P. Lump, an obese Chinese man, and certainly ranks up as one of the most face-palmingly stupid character names in the entire canon of fighting games. There are three other boss characters – the four-armed Ashura, the shadowy Shadow (who just mimics your character a la Mortal Kombat’s Shang Tsung), and Main for the final encounter – though they are unplayable.
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