11. New York Metropolis (Responsible Gear)
The Responsible Gear backgrounds are inclined to seem like one thing that you’d see on the quilt of a heavy steel album. All the pieces is simply rad and bigger than life. The primary recreation’s artwork feels very washed out, however that solely improves Sol Badguy’s stage within the ruins of New York Metropolis. If you happen to don’t know the Responsible Gear storyline…properly, I don’t have sufficient of an allowed phrase rely for that. Principally, there was a 100-year struggle between mankind and magical mutants referred to as Gears. The video games themselves happen within the aftermath, the place society is transferring in direction of a utopia, but in addition there’s at all times a hazard that the struggle will begin anew.
New York Metropolis was a casualty of the struggle, now a dusty tomb with the putting stays of the Statue of Liberty. It’s desolate, haunting, and goes properly with the sensation of cynical dread that comes with the primary recreation. It’s additionally becoming as a hangout for Sol himself, as he isn’t solely one of many ones who ended the massive struggle however secretly the one who inadvertently precipitated all this dying and destruction within the first place (the titular “Responsible Gear”). Later video games would clear up the rubble and construct over it, however it by no means appeared as memorable as the primary recreation.
10. Kousyu Road (Road Fighter III: Third Strike)
Road Fighter III and its upgrades boasted a few of the sweetest sprite work to exist on the planet of 2D gaming. Whether or not it’s Gill’s lava stage or Hugo’s questionable bachelor pad/attic, the backgrounds in these video games are issues of magnificence. The perfect of the very best comes from Third Strike, the place Akuma will get his personal stage. It is a rarity, as Akuma is often extra of a secret opponent or somebody so shrouded in thriller that it’s odd to see him have a house to name his personal. Normally, Akuma’s phases are a cave of some type.
Right here, he’s off in nature, albeit in a creepy setting befitting his darkish aura. The Grasp of Fist trains in the course of the woods with the perimeters of a mountain peaking in, unable to obscure the big full moon looming within the sky. Including to the eeriness are rows of statues, presumably coaching dummies original by Akuma himself. It’s a becoming background to combat Akuma in, however to make issues further cool, once you combat his extra highly effective Shin Akuma type, the identical background has a blood moon, turning the setting purple.
9. Thanos’s Palace (Marvel Tremendous Heroes)
Capcom’s Marvel Tremendous Heroes is a really unfastened adaptation of the 1991 comedian occasion Infinity Gauntlet. Not as unfastened an adaptation because the MCU’s Infinity Battle ended up being, however the comedian definitely didn’t contain Psylocke and Shuma Gorath combating on a practice. Thanos is the ultimate boss of the sport and his stage is an ideal recreation of his area within the Infinity Gauntlet comedian. The structure was created from his omnipotence and creativeness, defeated heroes (Scarlet Witch, She-Hulk, Drax the Destroyer, and so forth) have been became statues, and you may even see Demise and Mephisto simply chilling within the background.
Its inclusion is ideal on account of the way it pertains to the supply materials. In Infinity Gauntlet, a giant assortment of heroes went after Thanos and he nonetheless slaughtered all of them. He solely misplaced within the aftermath by fumbling his energy. Right here, you get to succeed the place the heroes of canon failed. Your alternative and your expertise can overcome what properly over a dozen couldn’t.
