On page 24 of issue 23 of UK-based Mega Magazine Garou Densetsu 2 (the Japanese title) was previewed and the editors admitted that they didn't know much about the game other than acknowledging that it was a fighting game. On page 62 of that very same issue Will Groves reviewed Fatal Fury 2, giving it a score of 75/100, not having any clue that it was the English language version of the game the magazine claimed to know nothing about 38 pages previously.