So is Night Stalkers a great one of these? No. The easiest comparison for Night Stalkers is probably to the Final Fight series, but there are literally dozens of games that adhere to this formula, though their popularity has waned significantly despite a recent mini-revival with games like Streets of Rage 4, Final Vendetta, and a number of indies. It’s a classic beat ‘em up with big sprites on a 2D background moving left, right, up, and down, and punching enemies in the face. Night Slashers’ gameplay will be familiar to anyone who visited an arcade in the early 90s or who has dipped back into that era of video games. A game with no depth, not a ton of replay value, but enough flashy gore and cool theming to pull in a few quarters in 1993. I sat down and finished it today and it is in some ways the quintessential arcade beat ‘em up. There have quietly been a lot of ports of previously unavailable arcade games to the PS4 and Switch over the last five years, and Night Slashers is a game I picked up in 2018 and hadn’t really played much of.
But I have been on an inexplicable beat ‘em up kick lately and the idea of playing Night Slashers appealed to me just because it’s something different in the genre. I’m not sure why I hadn’t been feeling Nintendo’s little hybrid this year, but despite having some anticipation for Kirby and mild interest in Mario Strikers I just haven’t wasn’t playing it.
Night Slashers is the first game I spent significant time with on my Switch in a while.
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