The entry that brought in my boy Vega. Everything else kinda sucks.
What can I say, I was always terrible at this game. But it still was one of if not the most iconic game of my boy years.
Tight controls, great character design, great level design, great music. 30 years on, hasn't gotten old.
I on the other hand....
Tight controls, great character design, great level design, great music. 30 years on, hasn't gotten old.
I on the other hand....
When I was 5 some neighborhood kid "found this in his yard" and gave it to me since he didn't have a Sega and I did.
It's the best version of SF2 on the genesis. Super Turbo is the best version of SF2 but this is a six button game and the genesis six button pad just feels and plays better. I don't need to talk about SF2 as a game. It's fucking SF2 it's the genre defining classic that is one of the best fighters ever made and even still to this day.
I remember I used to rent games at this local video store and I would wanna rent Streets of Rage 2 from time to time since I didn't own it. One of the boxes was handwritten Streets 2. I would get it thinking it was SoR2 but it ended up being this. And every time I thought to myself this isn't what I wanted, they gave me this game again. My mom would say do you want me to take it back? I always said no. This game is just as good. Happened a few times lol.
Also the SF2 CE had this really cool elimination mode in it that let you select 8 fighters in multiplayer and when you lost a match with that character it would go to your next character. Who ever eliminated all the characters won. That mode was the shit. Where is that in SF5?
I remember I used to rent games at this local video store and I would wanna rent Streets of Rage 2 from time to time since I didn't own it. One of the boxes was handwritten Streets 2. I would get it thinking it was SoR2 but it ended up being this. And every time I thought to myself this isn't what I wanted, they gave me this game again. My mom would say do you want me to take it back? I always said no. This game is just as good. Happened a few times lol.
Also the SF2 CE had this really cool elimination mode in it that let you select 8 fighters in multiplayer and when you lost a match with that character it would go to your next character. Who ever eliminated all the characters won. That mode was the shit. Where is that in SF5?
All it really improved on with the World Warrior was it added 4 new fighters and the gameplay is just a bit smoother, but they could've at least added more to it to make a champion edition worth while.
GRADE
B
GRADE
B
It's Street Figher 2, which is saying a lot.
Its Street Fighter II. Again. You can have mirror matches now though.
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Of the various console versions of this game, I like this one the best thanks to its quicker pace (BLAST PROCESSING lol) and the six-button controller.
This was one of my childhood games and it takes me back to a time when there were no super moves, no fancy high jumps or dashes, and you couldn't block in the air - it's the modern 2-D fighter pared down to its bare essentials. And it works simply because it did those essentials far better than its competitors and copycats; it simply looks cooler, handles more smoothly and is more fun than its contemporaries. Some things that stand out to me:
- The controls are great - I'm not sure if this was the first fighting game to implement basic combos by enabling the player to cancel a move into another move. But it sure is the first game I played that made it feel really natural.
- This game has no less than eight difficulty levels for the single-player mode, which is much appreciated, as it allows players of any skill level to play the game and provides a nice shot of dopamine when you manage to move on to the next difficulty level. (Contrast this with Mortal Kombat 2 which had difficulty levels but they only affected the first few matches, after which every single damn round would automatically set to 'bullshit' level).
- The music! Damn! Almost every track is a banger, and Guile's Theme obviously was so good it became a meme, but Ken's, Vega's and Balrog's themes are also excellent and would easily be the standout track in any of this game's contemporaries. (side note - if a soprano sang Vega's theme it would sound suspiciously like Star Trek)
As a casual player, one thing I didn't quite enjoy was the charging moves - the timing to pull them off was finicky and very difficult to get used to, and it created a clear divide between casual-friendly characters (those with quarter-circle special moves) and expert-only characters (those with charging special moves).
All that said, I didn't expect that this 29 year old game would still be fun today! The formula has obviously been embellished and refined over multiple subsequent generations of fighting games, but this is a venerable classic worth our appreciation.
This was one of my childhood games and it takes me back to a time when there were no super moves, no fancy high jumps or dashes, and you couldn't block in the air - it's the modern 2-D fighter pared down to its bare essentials. And it works simply because it did those essentials far better than its competitors and copycats; it simply looks cooler, handles more smoothly and is more fun than its contemporaries. Some things that stand out to me:
- The controls are great - I'm not sure if this was the first fighting game to implement basic combos by enabling the player to cancel a move into another move. But it sure is the first game I played that made it feel really natural.
- This game has no less than eight difficulty levels for the single-player mode, which is much appreciated, as it allows players of any skill level to play the game and provides a nice shot of dopamine when you manage to move on to the next difficulty level. (Contrast this with Mortal Kombat 2 which had difficulty levels but they only affected the first few matches, after which every single damn round would automatically set to 'bullshit' level).
- The music! Damn! Almost every track is a banger, and Guile's Theme obviously was so good it became a meme, but Ken's, Vega's and Balrog's themes are also excellent and would easily be the standout track in any of this game's contemporaries. (side note - if a soprano sang Vega's theme it would sound suspiciously like Star Trek)
As a casual player, one thing I didn't quite enjoy was the charging moves - the timing to pull them off was finicky and very difficult to get used to, and it created a clear divide between casual-friendly characters (those with quarter-circle special moves) and expert-only characters (those with charging special moves).
All that said, I didn't expect that this 29 year old game would still be fun today! The formula has obviously been embellished and refined over multiple subsequent generations of fighting games, but this is a venerable classic worth our appreciation.
Street fighter 2 is such an easy game to revisit. I always forget I own this one though.
ok. don't know why i played the genesis version.