Burning Fight

Duke Edwards and Billy King, two renowned New York City Police detectives, are hot on the trail of a dangerous Japanese crime syndicate. Their investigation has led them to the mean streets of Japan where they meet a police officer and martial arts expert named Ryu Saeba. Ryu agrees to join the NYPD detectives as they track down the crime syndicate bosses and end their reign of terror once and for all. == Gameplay ==

Burning Fight follows a formula and concepts commonly seen in titles of this genre, such as Streets of Rage, Double Dragon and Final Fight: balanced character selection, objects and weapons found on the ground cause greater damage to opponents, and semi-interactive environments (players can damage objects like phone booths and street signs along the way). The game is set in a fictional version of Osaka city (during a train station scene the platform even shows an "Umida" station sign). The five levels must be completed (Casterora is the last enemy) to win the game. == Reception ==

In Japan, Game Machine listed Burning Fight as the eighth most popular arcade game of June 1991. Likewise, RePlay reported the game to be the second most popular arcade game of that month. Since its release, the game has received generally mixed reception from critics, with most comparing it with better known competitors in the beat 'em up genre. Both the Neo Geo and Nintendo Switch versions hold a 55% and 30% respectively on the review aggregator GameRankings. with Eurogamers Dan Whitehead in particular regarding the game as a blatant copy of both Final Fight and Streets of Rage. IGNs Lucas M. Thomas also compared its gameplay to Double Dragon, but regarded it as more playable than Ninja Combat. Nintendo Lifes Damien McFerran and Dave Frear were critical of the game when reviewing the Virtual Console and Nintendo Switch releases respectively, comparing the playable cast of characters with those of Final Fight, while McFerran criticized the poor character animations. == Notes ==