Last Battle (Genesis)

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A somewhat middling beat-em-up based on the famous action manga Fist of the North Star. Even though the manga had become incredibly popular in the west since Sega's previous effort with the series, with the second Famicom game even seeing a proper release in the west half a year earlier, Sega still chose to strip the game of its license in localization as they did with Black Belt... in a very sloppy way that is, since unlike that game none of the graphics were redrawn, meaning you're still obviously playing as Kenshiro!

AARZAK! SAVE THE WORLD!

I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN SAVE THIS WORLD!

Regional Differences#

Title Screen#

Japan	World

Character/Terminology Names#

Bask/Hulk and Geira/Butcher are only named as such in the manual. The English manual changes Lin/Alyssa and Lui/Sophia's relationship to mother and daughter rather than twin sisters, and confusingly seems to imply that the three Rasho (Han, Hyo and Kaioh, renamed Gromm, Gross and Garokk), served under Falco/Duke as Gento warriors rather than being largely unrelated Hokuto Ryuken warriors.

Credits#

In the Japanese version, credits are shown during the character slideshow. In the international versions, the credits were removed.

Miscellaneous#

• Some characters and enemies have different palettes in the international versions.
• The Japanese version contains blood and head explosions. The international versions colored the blood blue or green, and simply had enemies fly off when punched rather than exploding.

References#