/vr/ - Retro Games

Nekketsu Oyako was a Japan-only PSX launch title intended almost as a tech demo to demonstrate the console's capabilities for handling a traditional arcade beat-'em-up game. However it's also a very fun game on its own right. An evil organization has kidnapped the mother of a family of four; now the father, son, and daughter set out to fight hordes of enemies on very colorful, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure-esque city streets on their quest to save her.

The gameplay is nothing surprising for fans of beat-'em-ups and the three playable characters (sadly, Mom does not become playable after rescuing her) sport good variety and are all totally viable. It was ported to the Saturn some time later, but surprisingly the technical differences aren't so great as for there to be a truly superior version, and the PSX original handles transparency better. It's definitely one of the beat-'em-ups worth hunting down for the PlayStation, along with titles such as Panzer Bandit and Captain Commando, as the console didn't receive many other arcade ports.