Taito’s Growl/Runark is the wildest beat ’em up plot we’ve seen so far: A group of rangers takes on the most heavily armed group of poachers that there’s ever been, with explosions a plenty and goofy dialogue for days! It may not be the most complex brawler, but it’s good plenty of style!
SNK’s Sengoku on the other hand also has some style but…it has maybe a little TOO much depth and is really going into slog territory. It does have a very interesting history of home ports though, in unexpected ways!