With a previous arcade collection and a dedicated Super Pocket Neo Geo console already available, is Neo Geo Arcade 2 worth picking up?

If you’re a fan of SNK’s 90s titles, you’ll very likely be right at home with Neo Geo Arcade 2. The chunky sprites and fancy zoom effects of Art of Fighting 2 make it an aesthetically exciting fighting game, with weighty combat and unique visuals. It’s aged beautifully.

Crossed Swords is less successful, but it feels unique even now. A sort of first person-esque game of knights and monsters, its gameplay isn’t as strong as other titles here, but it’s definitely a title which doesn’t really feel like anything else.

Garou: Mark of the Wolves is an absolutely gorgeous fighting game with a great roster of combatants and phenomenal animation. It’s a very fondly remembered game, and for good reason.

Metal Slug 2 is another excellent addition to the frantic, action packed run and gun series. Ninja Commando is a top down run and gunner, essentially, and it’s a very underrated, underappreciated game.

Finally, Sengoku 2 is a beat ’em up with some unique twists; the biggest being that you can transform your character into a wildly different form to their usual one.

There’s not a single weak game here, which is quite a relief. Six games on an Evercade cartridge feels particularly paltry, especially when it comes to classic arcade titles.

Though it does still feel like magic to have multiple Neo Geo games on a single, reasonably priced cartridge, it still feels a little stingy of Blaze to split their Neo Geo arcade collections onto three different cartridges. I’m sure that licensing costs have probably been responsible for that, but it does still feel wrong, especially when they’re launching one after the other.

Still, there’s no denying the quality of the games on this cartridge, even if the number of games, as well as the variety on offer, is somewhat lacking.

You can buy Neo Geo Arcade 2 from Amazon.

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