Battle of Yuu Yuu Hakusho The - Shitou Ankoku Bujutsukai - 120%
The Battle of Yu Yu Hakusho: Dark Tournament 120% is a 3D fighter using spirit attacks, combos, awakenings, and familiar characters to recreate the Dark Tournament. This catalogue entry evaluates the recorded original-platform release, including its period-specific controls, presentation, content structure, hardware limits, and intended mode of play.
- AI score · out of 10
- 7.1 / 10
About this game
The Battle of Yu Yu Hakusho: Dark Tournament 120% is a 3D fighter using spirit attacks, combos, awakenings, and familiar characters to recreate the Dark Tournament. Characters, voices, signature moves, and story presentation strongly reward fans, while team and versus modes support repeats. Balance, camera, collision, and defensive feedback are inconsistent, story progression and arenas lack variety, and Japanese raises barriers. Adaptation exceeds competitive depth. This description covers the original ps2 release represented by this catalog entry and does not assume conveniences introduced by later ports. The assessment also treats period hardware limits, documented mechanics, original controls, and release-specific access as explicit evaluation boundaries.
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The Battle of Yu Yu Hakusho: Dark Tournament 120% is a 3D fighter using spirit attacks, combos, awakenings, and familiar characters to recreate the Dark Tournament.
Characters, voices, signature moves, and story presentation strongly reward fans, while team and versus modes support repeats. Balance, camera, collision, and defensive feedback are inconsistent, story progression and arenas lack variety, and Japanese raises barriers. Adaptation exceeds competitive depth. Overall, its main strengths are Characters, voices, moves, and story recreate the source; Team and versus modes support fan replay. Its material limitations are Inconsistent balance, camera, collision, and defense; Limited arenas, story variety, and Japanese access. This score covers the original platform release represented by this catalog record and excludes conveniences added by emulators or later ports. The conclusion also accounts for original hardware readability, input, and access conditions. Documented uncertainty remains explicit. The evidence supports this balance.
Strengths
- Characters, voices, moves, and story recreate the source
- Team and versus modes support fan replay
Weaknesses
- Inconsistent balance, camera, collision, and defense
- Limited arenas, story variety, and Japanese access
Who it is for: Players who value characters, voices, moves, and story recreate the source and can accept the original release's limits.
Play notes: Before playing, expect inconsistent balance, camera, collision, and defense and limited arenas, story variety, and japanese access; this assessment covers the recorded original-platform release.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Team and versus modes support fan replay; Limited arenas, story variety, and Japanese access. | Reviewed | 6.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Characters, voices, moves, and story recreate the source; Inconsistent balance, camera, collision, and defense. | Reviewed | 7.4 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Team and versus modes support fan replay; presentation is judged within the original platform conditions, with no bonus for age alone. | Reviewed | 7.7 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Judged on the original ps2 release's input, readability, saving, and accessory conditions. Inconsistent balance, camera, collision, and defense. | Reviewed | 5.8 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Dimps
- Publisher
- Banpresto
- Release date
- 1994
- Platforms
- PlayStation 2
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Fighting · Primary genre
- Tags
- 3D GraphicsPlayer versus PlayerStory-drivenCombosMelee CombatThird PersonComic and Manga AdaptationReplayable
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Not provided
- Perspectives
- Not provided
Release editions
- PlayStation 2Worldwide1994
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