The first traditional fighting game on GameCube, and this one is good fun. It’s the fourth game in the Bloody Roar series, and the first one to not be released in arcades. The series revolves around Zoanthropes, a human-like species with the ability to transform into animals such as tigers, elephants and rabbits – although they all walk on two feet like humans.
A core concept of the game is swapping between your human mode and your beast form to access different abilities, as well as using your hyper-beast mode, which is powerful but only lasts a short time. In terms of controls, Primal Fury is fairly simple, with just one button for punches and one button for kicks (unlike the usual three for each), which is probably why I can perform reasonably well at the game.
There aren’t a huge amount of modes, and still features the odd (to me) issue that you can’t select a specific fighter to be your opponent, but it’s still decent fun, and a good option for fighting games early in the GameCube’s life.