SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy is a game for those who want the sexy girls of the SNK universe in one place wearing some very strange—but eye catching—outfits. Less like a serious fighter and more causal based, SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy will appeal to those who enjoy fighters with quick one button special attacks and not a plethora of combos to learn through hundreds of hours of practice. Want to enjoy some nice-looking ladies who also kick butt? What about seeing Terry Bogart as a female? If you answered yes to any of those questions then you might want to continue reading on as we go further into what SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy truly is about.

SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy focuses less on the normal fighting game mechanics of the previous SNK King of Fighter titles and more on throwing our lovely girls into a strange fighting brawl. Players will need to take down their opponents and whittle away their life bars to defeat them using ultimate strikes known as Dream Finish moves. Use various items and tag battle themes to win the fight and customize your girls in various items. Which set of girls will come out on top? Find out in SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy.

The King of Fighters tournament has just ended but something rather peculiar is afoot. Various girls from the bout have awoken not in the comfort of their own homes but within a mysterious mansion. What’s even more peculiar is many of the girls have found themselves stripped of their normal clothing and are wearing strange outfits! What is going on within this mansion? Pushed forward by a voice claiming to be the reason they are here, the girls must seek a way home all while dealing with one another and other strange occurrences. A new female focused fight awaits in SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy!

In the last few months we’ve seen a ton of crossover fighters it seems like. We’ve had BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle and more recently, Blade Strangers. SNK seemed to want in on this crossover madness and decided to create their own unique take on the system with a game called SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy. Does SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy hit all the right notes to make for a solid entry into the SNK fighting game library? Why don’t we find out together in our review of SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy for the PS4?

SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy removes the male cast of SNK fighters/titles and legit is all about the ladies—with the exception of Terry who has become a lady—duking it out in a weird dimension. The goal of every match is simple. Take down an opponent’s life bar and then perform a special move called a Dream Finish to win the match. During the round, you’ll rely on your support character to throw items like life ups and stamina boosts to help you get an edge in during the fight. In theory, SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy sounds like a fun fighting game with no hiccups but the sad truth is that what SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy does right, it also does very wrong. Let’s go more in depth with what we mean by that as we talking about the actual fighting game mechanics.

Like The King of Fighters—SNK’s most famous fighting game franchise—players choose 2 warriors and go against other opponents who do the same. The problem here though is SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy is divides its tag team system into two components, attackers and supporters. Attackers are your controlled femme fatale who do damage and hopefully KO the enemy. Supporters will throw items at you to help you and will build up their own special gauge which is needed to unleash Dream Finish attacks. This is the whole game, folks, whittle an opponent’s life bar to the red zone then unleash a special to win the fight. Each character only has about 4-5 moves and while you can unleash combos, you won’t see air juggles like you see in other fighting games. The biggest failing of SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy right away is that it’s so casual that all girls use the same button inputs—circle with a directional input—to perform their moves. You have light and heavy attacks too but even chaining them together feels weak in the combo department.

Now if you do decide to keep going into SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy for a while despite the simplicity, we do have some good news at least. SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy is filled with some substance due to the various modes and unlockables. As you play and win fights, you’ll earn money to use for costumes for your girls as well as accessories. There’s also the traditional modes like survival mode to enjoy and an online component—though we couldn’t test how SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy plays online as of writing this review—that should keep people busy for a little while. While the story mode is short, the dialogue between girls and characters will keep you playing to see all the cutscenes you can unlock to either ogle at or just to smile with some goofy narration from the girls stuck in this weird world.

Lastly, visually, SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy looks great with a lot of detail in the character models and environments. The soundtrack though leaves a lot to desire if we’re being honest. We hold SNK in high standards with their epic OSTs but SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy lacks a lot of good tunes and often feels very flat. At the end of the day, you’ll enjoy what you see—like Mai for example—but won’t want your TV/monitor at its highest volume. You’d be better off just using other SNK tracks and listening to those as you do battle against the AI or another player.

Fighting game crossovers can be fun and enjoyable when they strike the right balance between casual and complex. Unfortunately, SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy falls victim to being too casual and thus losing that feeling of being a true fighter, which is strange to say for an SNK title that uses a multitude of King of Fighters characters. Is SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy a bad game? No, fans of the female warriors of SNK titles will have a kick at seeing their lovely heroines dressed in fan service heavy outfits and put into a ridiculous situation, that can sometimes be a bit creepy but for comedic effect. However, those who prefer more competent fighters with a bit more meat behind them will find SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy to be a passable title due to the lack of combos and adherence to most fighting game themes and systems. SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy truly is a fan made title but that definitely won’t appeal to everyone.

It’s always hard to say we don’t love a SNK title. Over the years, the SNK franchise has pumped out some amazing collaborative titles and fighters that truly appeal to those who love simple fighters or even more depth based ones. SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy falls victim to making a title made for fan service than actual fighting and that’s why calling it a fighting game sometimes feels weird. Don’t go into SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy with hopes of a title like King of Fighters or even BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle. Go into SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy with the anticipation of a fighting game made for those who don’t like long drawn out bouts and prefer simple combos and move sets that can be mastered in literally an afternoon.

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