The smartest game about female wrestling ever

Letss start with a history lesson on obscure female wrestling games!



The Wrestle Angels series started its life as PC98 card battle games where two women enter the ring and only one leaves with her clothes on. The games were pretty fun, but stupid. As the series went, Wrestle Angels started introducing money management gameplay elements and drastically lowered the amount of nudity. What was once a fun, easy, and stupid game about strip fighting evolved into a smart and challenging game series with not a bare breast in sight.



Super Wrestle Angels is one of the later games in the series, around when the management sim elements took full hold of the series. Dont expect sexy grapple CG and boobs here. Its all about managing the career of a female wrestler, booking her matches, promoting her, and trying to make a certain amount of money within a year. Underneath the silly female wrestling exterior, Super Wrestle Angels is a complex game about money management that is very fun and challenging.



Story- In Super Wrestle Angels, you play as an agent. At the beginning of the game, you select which female wrestler youre going to manage and help her get to the top. Theres a lot of work to be put into this. Training, deals, keeping track of spending You know what they say, right? You have to spend money to make money. Choose some good investments at the right time. Thats how you can win!



Theres also a slight bishoujo element to this game. The woman that youre managing will talk to you periodically. Youll get to know her a bit and see her in various revealing costumes. She also has big dreams of becoming a wrestling star. You dont want to let her down, do you? Make her dreams come true! Show her that you care and that with enough hard work and training, she can become the best wrestler ever!



Presentation- The music is fun, but pretty basic. Sound effects are minimal. Graphics, on the other hand, are good, especially for a Super Famicom game. Backgrounds are animated. Character sprites are huge, brightly colored, and move a lot. The menus even have a sense of flair to them. Super Wrestle Angels has no shortage of style, thats for sure.



The best part about Super Wrestle Angels presentation is that during actual wrestling matches, you get to see your wrestler do moves on the other! The game has a lot of unique animations. You can see characters do all sorts of moves, pull combos on each other, and even do impressive finishing blows. Its all very well-done and shows the amount of effort put into such a strange and obscure game.



Gameplay- Menu surfing. I know it sounds boring when I put it that way, but thats all you do outside of the card battle minigame. The goal of the game is to make a certain amount of money within a certain number of years. If you win, then you made a girls dream come true of being the best and most loved female wrestler in Japan. At its heart, Super Wrestle Angels is still a bishoujo game, but there is more to it than that.



You have to take a lot of things into account when making decisions. Where are you going to fight? Who will you fight? Is your wrestler tough enough to fight this person yet or do they need more training? Theres also promoting, booking, and all sorts of other factors that you need to look into. Choose wisely and know when to go certain things. Sometimes its better to train. Sometimes its better to fight.



The actual wrestling segments are card-battle based. You simply choose a card and use that as your wrestling move. Some moves can lead into other moves, which form combos. You also get destructive finishing moves that look really cool and do a lot of damage. Theyre hard to use and not always practical, but they are fun to see in action. It helps that each wrestling move comes with a set of pictures showing your wrestlers doing various moves on each other.



Super Wrestle Angels is a very fun game. Even though its heavy on the Japanese and a strange concept, its very fun and is more than worthy of your time. Try it out, its fun! The whole Wrestle Angels series is underrated and is worth a try, especially if youre into female wrestling.



Cool Fact- This is technically a remake of the third game in the series, but with a good chunk of the bishoujo elements removed and the nudity cut out. It doesnt stop this from being one of the best ways to play Wrestle Angels.



Also Try- Later Wrestle Angels games (like this one) have a lot in common with Princess Maker. While Princess Maker is more about setting a schedule, you still have money to work with and a lady to take care of. Theyre both very fun games to play and its hard not to recommend them to people who are into anime girls and simulation games.

Rating: 8

Product Release: Super Wrestle Angels (JP, 12/16/94)