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Link to original post: [drupal=1157]Review: Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix[/drupal]
You know, I can't decide if I like Street Fighter II or not. Yeah, it's kind of fun I guess, but it isn't that good. The only reason why I downloaded the newest remake of the game onto my PS3 was because I was tired of being in conversations about fighting games with other gamers when suddenly one of them brings up SF2 and I always slip out of the conversation because (up until now) I had never played the game. Plus I didn't want to feel like a total n00b when trying out Street Fighter IV. While I was downloading the game I had this feeling that my old arch- nemeses nostalgia would be the cause behind this game apparently being "da ****" back in the early 90s. I was right, of course.
I guess I'll start with what I liked about the game. First off the bat I want to say that this game has really nice music. And you know the game has to have some neat tunes if I mention it because I'm usually pulling apart the core of the game, story and game play. I'll admit that the cast of characters was amusing. Like you have one guy who looks like an adult version of Edward Elric from Full Metal Alchemist mixed with Jason Voorhees, there's also some feral... thing from Brazil. A guy who looks like an early Captain American villain, a Russian wrestler and Bruce Lee. I wish I could make this stuff up, but there is a guy who looks exactly like Bruce Lee in this game. That could only be more awesome if he was on fire. Wait, he has a move that does set him one fire. So scratch that, there is no way that could be more awesome! So the cast of characters is likable, I can't think of anyone who I wanted to see stomped on by Megatron. So far so good.
I'm going to be honest, I'm really, really bad at this game. When I first fired up arcade mode I picked a guy named Ken, who is American martial-artist that likes to go around and rip off Dragonball Z along with two other guys named Ryu and Akuma-matata. I put the arcade mode on medium difficulty, and the first thing I noticed (while getting my *** kicked) is that you move really slow in this game. Most fans of the game will probably argue that I've had it "ruined" for me because I'm more used to newer, more fast-pace fighters like Tekken or Soul Calibur, but screw that. I played better fighting games before this, what do you want me to do about it? So after getting my *** handed to me on a silver platter I went down to easy difficulty, which also kicked my ***. But eventually I got down to speed and figured out what button did what (kind of bugs me that you have to walk backwards to block) I realized that the keys to victory are to jump a lot and to spamKamehameha Hodoken because the CPUs do it a lot. So after playing a bit I eventually got fairly good at the game, but still got my *** kicked on easy difficulty. This is weird for me because up until now every fighting game I've played I've been able to pick up and get good at on my first go. So I'm either just naturally bad at Street Fighter or it's a really freaking hard game. If easy is this bad I would hate to see what expert is like. They probably make you fight Chuck Norris in Super Saiyan Five as a guy with no arms and no legs in a wheel chair armed with a sock puppet.
I'm sure there's a story in here somewhere, but if there is Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix must do a really crappy job at telling it because there wasn't much dialog (unless you count the post-battle quotes) in the game at all. From what I can pull, a bunch of dudes (and two chicks) hop into a plane and go all over the world in a quest to prove that they are the manliest man (or girl) in the world by beating up foreigners. I would also like to point out that "Street Fighter" is a very misleading name. Because that name implies (well, this is what comes to mind to me) that you are some rugged low-life living on the streets of a big-*** city (usually Tokyo or New York) who goes around beating up other rugged low-lives to take their money, or beer. But you are actually a buff martial artist who goes all over the world to beat up other buff martial artists to take their honor, or beer.
Street Fighter II is in no way a bad game, it's fairly fun when you play multi-player with a friend. But overall I don't see what makes it the most epic fighting game ever made. Yeah it's fun, but not that fun. So Street Fighter II: A fun (and way to difficult) fighter that's overrated by Nostalgia and fanboys.
You know, I can't decide if I like Street Fighter II or not. Yeah, it's kind of fun I guess, but it isn't that good. The only reason why I downloaded the newest remake of the game onto my PS3 was because I was tired of being in conversations about fighting games with other gamers when suddenly one of them brings up SF2 and I always slip out of the conversation because (up until now) I had never played the game. Plus I didn't want to feel like a total n00b when trying out Street Fighter IV. While I was downloading the game I had this feeling that my old arch- nemeses nostalgia would be the cause behind this game apparently being "da ****" back in the early 90s. I was right, of course.
I guess I'll start with what I liked about the game. First off the bat I want to say that this game has really nice music. And you know the game has to have some neat tunes if I mention it because I'm usually pulling apart the core of the game, story and game play. I'll admit that the cast of characters was amusing. Like you have one guy who looks like an adult version of Edward Elric from Full Metal Alchemist mixed with Jason Voorhees, there's also some feral... thing from Brazil. A guy who looks like an early Captain American villain, a Russian wrestler and Bruce Lee. I wish I could make this stuff up, but there is a guy who looks exactly like Bruce Lee in this game. That could only be more awesome if he was on fire. Wait, he has a move that does set him one fire. So scratch that, there is no way that could be more awesome! So the cast of characters is likable, I can't think of anyone who I wanted to see stomped on by Megatron. So far so good.
I'm going to be honest, I'm really, really bad at this game. When I first fired up arcade mode I picked a guy named Ken, who is American martial-artist that likes to go around and rip off Dragonball Z along with two other guys named Ryu and Akuma-matata. I put the arcade mode on medium difficulty, and the first thing I noticed (while getting my *** kicked) is that you move really slow in this game. Most fans of the game will probably argue that I've had it "ruined" for me because I'm more used to newer, more fast-pace fighters like Tekken or Soul Calibur, but screw that. I played better fighting games before this, what do you want me to do about it? So after getting my *** handed to me on a silver platter I went down to easy difficulty, which also kicked my ***. But eventually I got down to speed and figured out what button did what (kind of bugs me that you have to walk backwards to block) I realized that the keys to victory are to jump a lot and to spam
I'm sure there's a story in here somewhere, but if there is Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix must do a really crappy job at telling it because there wasn't much dialog (unless you count the post-battle quotes) in the game at all. From what I can pull, a bunch of dudes (and two chicks) hop into a plane and go all over the world in a quest to prove that they are the manliest man (or girl) in the world by beating up foreigners. I would also like to point out that "Street Fighter" is a very misleading name. Because that name implies (well, this is what comes to mind to me) that you are some rugged low-life living on the streets of a big-*** city (usually Tokyo or New York) who goes around beating up other rugged low-lives to take their money, or beer. But you are actually a buff martial artist who goes all over the world to beat up other buff martial artists to take their honor, or beer.
Street Fighter II is in no way a bad game, it's fairly fun when you play multi-player with a friend. But overall I don't see what makes it the most epic fighting game ever made. Yeah it's fun, but not that fun. So Street Fighter II: A fun (and way to difficult) fighter that's overrated by Nostalgia and fanboys.
