Franchise Overview: Yu Yu Hakusho

[toei]

A series of articles covering every video game based on the series, organized by release date and subseries. The first two parts are up, covering the early Nintendo systems and the lone PC Engine CD release. There will be five parts in total, with the rest scheduled for next week.

www.hardcoregaming101.net/yu-yu-hakusho-part-1-intro-game-boy-pc-engine-cd/

www.hardcoregaming101.net/yu-yu-hakusho-part-2-famicom-super-famicom/

They're fairly representative of games based off anime licenses as a whole; you've got a fair deal of mediocre titles, a fair deal that are decent, a few that are outright trash,  and a few gems. The majority are fighting games, but you've also got a few RPG-adjacent titles, including a cool platformer/beat-'em-up/RPG hybrid, and some oddball releases. If you've ever come across one of those turn-based fighting games and wondered what the point was, Part 2 covers that (it's actually a pretty strategic and complex subgenre).

[spanky]

Man, I remember bingeing this entire series during finals week Junior year of college when I was in a depressed funk because my girlfriend had just broken up with me. Good times. I also downloaded all the games. I had a surprising amount of fun with those weird "cinematic" fighting games.

[toei]

Now that the articles have been off the front page for a while (they don't stay there for long anymore), I can admit it; I was secretly hoping that someone would read them and decide to translate the Genesis adventure game (YYH Gaiden) or the Gameboy ARPG.

[Apollo Chungus]

Feb 27, 2019 17:49:29 GMT -5 toei said:

Now that the articles have been off the front page for a while (they don't stay there for long anymore), I can admit it; I was secretly hoping that someone would read them and decide to translate the Genesis adventure game (YYH Gaiden) or the Gameboy ARPG.

You never know. Someone might stumble across it down the line and decide to give it a shot. The first game I ever reviewed for the website, the GB puzzler Noobow, got an English fan translation after a member of the Stardust Crusaders fan translation group found my review - and Noobow's a really obscure game to the point where it was hard to find decent information on it at the time. With a series considerably more well-known like YYH, I'd wager that there'll be a fan translation for either game at some point in the future, and your reviews might have been the spark of inspiration.

[toei]

Feb 28, 2019 8:48:53 GMT -5 Apollo Chungus said:

Feb 27, 2019 17:49:29 GMT -5 toei said:

Now that the articles have been off the front page for a while (they don't stay there for long anymore), I can admit it; I was secretly hoping that someone would read them and decide to translate the Genesis adventure game (YYH Gaiden) or the Gameboy ARPG.

You never know. Someone might stumble across it down the line and decide to give it a shot. The first game I ever reviewed for the website, the GB puzzler Noobow, got an English fan translation after a member of the Stardust Crusaders fan translation group found my review - and Noobow's a really obscure game to the point where it was hard to find decent information on it at the time. With a series considerably more well-known like YYH, I'd wager that there'll be a fan translation for either game at some point in the future, and your reviews might have been the spark of inspiration.

You're right, it could happen. It's pretty cool that Noobow's fan translation started that way. I'd heard about it when the patch came out, but I wouldn't have guessed.