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Dragon Fist is a misleading OVA that doesn't deliver.

The story starts out like the synopsis here, though there is no mention of the main character, Fei Long, killing anyone. He goes to Japan and attends a school where a strange cloning situation is occurring. There's a few twists and turns in the plot, but there's a ton of info thrust onto the viewer in a few minutes, the entire story being around 40 minutes total, and everything plays out like a soap opera.

The acting is very cheesy and so are the characters. The art is often distorted, characters looking odd in weird angles with limited ... animation. The actual designs are okay, though not particularly memorable; you've seen these characters playing these roles before.

The two things I did like were the colors used, a nice cool purple theme, and the awesome musick. The sound effects are mediocre, but the songs are great! There are quite a few lyrical numbers too, making this play out almost like a musical (making it even weirder to be honest). But seriously, I enjoyed all of the musick quite a bit and would potentially buy a soundtrack.

I can't give much praise to the rest of this. It's worth watching to see how strange this story is and how poorly it's executed, "so bad it's good" style.

I was thoroughly disappointed with the Psychic Force OVA. I discovered it after playing the PS1 game recently. I didn't expect much from it, being an adaptation of a fighting game, but I didn't expect it to go so poorly either.

The story is alright at best, after seeing it in full. It focuses too much on the barely fleshed out relationship between two characters and does not get into much detail about the war between psychics and humans. I wasn't really sure what was going on. The OVA also has a tendency to jump between little glimpses of characters, and this is even weird considering ... that the show is only two episodes. Sometimes we just see a two-second clip with almost no context. Surprisingly there is very little fighting.

The art is decent. It looks like you would expect from a 90's anime. There is a lot of blood at times, though it seems almost out of place. I don't think the animation was particularly fantastic in terms of actually animating the characters.

I could not stand the sound design. Maybe I just watched a poor quality version, but I found the character voices very annoying. People like to complain about dubbed anime, but this was subbed. As you might expect from a lot of action-oriented anime, there was quite a bit of yelling. Often the characters just yell each other's names. There is not a lot of music either, though the music that is here is good.

As mentioned above, I think the characters were barely fleshed out. Of course, with only two episodes to work with, there's only so much that can be done. I expected more than what I got though. I wasn't sure of the antagonists' goals until the very end. Some characters have barely any screen time at all, and some of their actions are still not clear. The character Sonia has a strange backstory in the video game's manual that is not explained at all here. The main character, Burn, has almost nothing to his character except his relationship to the character Keith. It was really a letdown.

I did not enjoy watching Psychic Force. I often felt tired. The second episode was much better than the first, which just dragged on and on.

Overall I can't give this a very good rating. Everything was disjointed with one-track mind characters and poor sound/script. If you are expecting action you won't find much of that either. I couldn't recommend this much to anyone, as even if you are a fan of the game, it doesn't go into any depth at all.