1993-12-17
The Peace Keepers is the final chapter in Jaleco's SNES-exclusive Rushing Beat trilogy. It features an all-new cast of fighters with advanced techniques including screen-filling super attacks like Golden Axe. It also has branching paths, hidden characters, and lets you color-swap every character and enemy in the game. The US localization was brutally butchered by removing/mistranslating large parts of the story and replacing the music with ambient sounds.
In addition to the cut music and butchered story, a spider robot enemy was removed during the localization. Also, they replaced the character portraits with live action ones that at least look like the characters they're portraying. Rick Norton from the first two games is a hidden playable character. Douglas Bild also makes an appearance, but he only has a little dialogue.
Rushing Beat Ran is a solid conclusion to Jaleco's Rushing Beat trilogy. It has awesome super throws, plenty of unique fighters, and branching stages. Plus you can color-swap any character. The graphics are pretty good but the music is off the chain. Peace Keepers (the US version) senselessly cut almost all the music so it should be avoided.
