Welcome to our review of Big Bang Pro Wrestling, a game that once got released decades ago on the Neo Geo Pocket and this port on Switch is a very bad one.
It’s about to pop off! Muscle-bound wrestlers take the stage for a bombastic all-out brawl! Easy controls allow you to pull off sick and devastating special moves from the push of a button!
-10 fighters to choose from including fledging newbies, masked wrestlers, and hulking heavyweights! The ring is calling you!
-Each wrestler comes with their own personalized Finishing Move. Fulfill the proper conditions and let it rip to win the fight!
-Change up the rules with exciting modes like Coffin Death Match where your goal is to toss your opponent into a coffin. Or, try to steal away the reward in Reward Death Match to really stick it to your opponent!
*The instruction manual featured within the game is from the original NEOGEO Pocket Color version. Therefore, the control explanations may differ from those on Nintendo Switch.
*Local “VS MATCH” is possible, but online functions are disabled.
Big Bang Pro Wrestling is not a bad game really, it is just this port that’s rather disappointing. You got a tiny screen inside a skin and that is it. It is like they insisted on keeping the original resolution but at the same time ignored the current generation resolution. It is just a tiny screen inside the Switch screen and I truly disliked it.
I get the appeal of retro more than anyone, I even own an original Game Boy so I am used to the entire smaller screen size, but dammit, this is not how a game is supposed to be played in 2022… And sadly, it is not even a bad wrestling game, not for its era. It actually delivers on a proper wrestling experience.
From a grapple to a dropkick, in classic wrestling games, all action was usually bound to just a few buttons and with the Neo Geo Pocket having only 2 buttons, this is limiting your move set, but not really, it all comes down to how you handle the wrestler at hand. Bearing mind here that this game in no way comes close to any modern iteration of the wrestling games currently on the market.
If you compare it to like a WWE game, we are talking about the original Raw or Royal Rumble games, back on the SNES. Games that had you set for hours on a rainy Saturday afternoon, but now, not so much…
In conclusion, Big Bang Pro Wrestling was once a great staple in the wrestling games, but it actually aged well, but not in this shape, where 80% of the screen is a lame skin of a now-defunct console. It just can not be called a proper port in my humble opinion, not in this way.
