In "The Bouncer", Sion is a bouncer in a Dog Street bar called 'Fate'. An organized kidnapping by the Mikado Group's Special Forces draws Sion and his friends, Volt and Kou,  into an incredible battle beyond the mean streets of the future.

Square doesn't tell a lie when they use the tag line, "Play the action movie". My friends you can beat this game with all three characters in less than 4 hours. That's bad, but can be overlooked if for those 4 hours you were busting people's heads open. But in the words of Stone Cold Steve Austin "UNH UNH"!! It's safe to say that in the hour it takes you to beat the game once, ONLY 20 minutes of that hour are you actually playing the game. The other 40 is of the most beautiful fmv cut screens you will ever lay your eyes on. I mean, folks it looks like you're watching a Saturday Morning Cartoon. Of course, I didn't buy this game for a cartoon. I bought it for a game, a game that doesn't exist.

The fighting engine in "The Bouncer" has to be one of the worst systems ever created. It doesn't take anything less than a bed wetting retard to figure out these moves. All you have to do is mash buttons, and "tada"! You are a bouncer master. That's it...really it is. What makes the horrible fighting engine even worse is that you often do moves that cause the camera angle to rotate rapidly. This completely sucks as it  throws you off as to where your character is on the screen and you sometimes find yourself completely away from the action.

To compare this game to "Final Fight" is not fair to Final Fight. Final Fight had moves that took a little more than button pressing to accomplish. The backgrounds may have not been interactive, but you could pick up a trash can and throw it or a crowbar and crack it over someone's head. In here, everything in the background is pre-rendered. Then, it loses points because Final Fight allowed to people to play simultaneously in story modes. Bouncer on the other hand does not; instead it allows the computer to control the other two bouncers while you control the third. This would be fine and dandy if the AI on your partners wasn't that of a flea. These folks don't do sh*t, but stand around and watch you get your ass kicked. This has to be THE most annoying thing known to man. If they're going to be there, in the way…make them do something worthwhile. If not, move their punk asses or let a second player take over control of one of them. To make up for this half assed-ness, Square throws in a multiplayer mode where 3 or more people can play against each other. This would be pretty neat if the fighting engine wasn't so juvenile, and if the characters that are selectable weren't simply clones of each other (Dauragon, Dauragon without jacket, Dauragon without shirt..ect.)

Squaresoft does pick up some points in doing what it knows best. Creating a very deep story, that combines the stories of the three bouncers tremendously. Though, the third bouncer Kou's storyline is not nearly as interesting as the other two and seems like a "oh damn...we have nothing for him to do. So we'll just make him...blah blah". It’s not bad, but it’s very obvious.