This game is a bit of a tough one to score. There isn't a ton of content for its price, but it is still the best versions of Street Fighter II. I should also note that my experience with this game might be a bit skewed in some ways as I bought the Japanese version mistakenly believing there would be an English language option, so now I am stuck viewing this game in either Japanese or simplified chinese. As I can not read either of these two languages, navigating menus has so far been a bit of a challenge for me.
What most significantly improves the game are definitely the new controls. Whatever Capcom did to this game's input reader is incredible. Unlike other versions of Street Fighter II, I almost never drop inputs, it's like the game somehow always knows exactly what i want to do. Pulling off combos also feels significantly better and easier. I really couldn't tell you what exactly has changed here as I know very little about the technical aspect of fighting games, but I’m always able to perform my inputs as well as pull off cool combos I have never been able to do before when playing this game. It all feels great.
This game's presentation is also top notch. The menus all look great, and you can even scroll through a big slideshow full of nothing but amazing art of the whole Street Fighter series. New screens have been added for the transitions between menus and gameplay, and every stage plus the character select screen has a completely redrawn background. Each character also has a redrawn higher resolution sprite. I actually didn't love these new sprites at first, but over time they’ve really grown on me. If you really can not stand the new graphics however, you do have the option to revert them back to be the same as the original game. Most of the music has been newly remixed, and just like in the original Street Fighter 2, and it all sounds amazing.
The lack of truly new content is really what hurts Ultra Street Fighter II the most. Arcade, versus, and training modes are all offered within the game, however they are essentially lifted directly out of the original Street Fighter II aside from some updated cutscenes for each of the character endings after beating their arcade mode. While there are two new characters, they are both just slightly tweaked, reskinned versions of Ken and Ryu, who obviously were both already found within the original game. The only new content that actually plays like Street Fighter is a 2v1 mode where you and another player or CPU can fight against a significantly buffed CPU opponent. It’s a cool mode, but not cool enough to justify the 40$ price tag on this game. There is however one more additional mode: way of the hado. It is unfortunately terrible and still does not make the game worth 40$. You play as Ryu in an open 3D arena and through motion controls you use shoryukens, hadokens, and senpukyakus to take down waves of enemies. There are two main problems with this mode. Number one is that the motion controls do not work whatsoever. In fact they are probably the least accurate motion controls I have ever used in any video game ever. No matter what godforsaken way you move your arms, Ryu does hadoken and only hadoken. Problem number two is that even if the motion controls did work, most of the time the enemies just stand still and stare at you, making this gamemode extremely boring.
If Ultra Street Fighter II was just a 10$ eshop game or something it would be perfect. Unfortunately as it is I can’t recommend dropping 40$ on it, but I must admit that it is still very enjoyable, and is most certainly the definitive version of Street Fighter II
What most significantly improves the game are definitely the new controls. Whatever Capcom did to this game's input reader is incredible. Unlike other versions of Street Fighter II, I almost never drop inputs, it's like the game somehow always knows exactly what i want to do. Pulling off combos also feels significantly better and easier. I really couldn't tell you what exactly has changed here as I know very little about the technical aspect of fighting games, but I’m always able to perform my inputs as well as pull off cool combos I have never been able to do before when playing this game. It all feels great.
This game's presentation is also top notch. The menus all look great, and you can even scroll through a big slideshow full of nothing but amazing art of the whole Street Fighter series. New screens have been added for the transitions between menus and gameplay, and every stage plus the character select screen has a completely redrawn background. Each character also has a redrawn higher resolution sprite. I actually didn't love these new sprites at first, but over time they’ve really grown on me. If you really can not stand the new graphics however, you do have the option to revert them back to be the same as the original game. Most of the music has been newly remixed, and just like in the original Street Fighter 2, and it all sounds amazing.
The lack of truly new content is really what hurts Ultra Street Fighter II the most. Arcade, versus, and training modes are all offered within the game, however they are essentially lifted directly out of the original Street Fighter II aside from some updated cutscenes for each of the character endings after beating their arcade mode. While there are two new characters, they are both just slightly tweaked, reskinned versions of Ken and Ryu, who obviously were both already found within the original game. The only new content that actually plays like Street Fighter is a 2v1 mode where you and another player or CPU can fight against a significantly buffed CPU opponent. It’s a cool mode, but not cool enough to justify the 40$ price tag on this game. There is however one more additional mode: way of the hado. It is unfortunately terrible and still does not make the game worth 40$. You play as Ryu in an open 3D arena and through motion controls you use shoryukens, hadokens, and senpukyakus to take down waves of enemies. There are two main problems with this mode. Number one is that the motion controls do not work whatsoever. In fact they are probably the least accurate motion controls I have ever used in any video game ever. No matter what godforsaken way you move your arms, Ryu does hadoken and only hadoken. Problem number two is that even if the motion controls did work, most of the time the enemies just stand still and stare at you, making this gamemode extremely boring.
If Ultra Street Fighter II was just a 10$ eshop game or something it would be perfect. Unfortunately as it is I can’t recommend dropping 40$ on it, but I must admit that it is still very enjoyable, and is most certainly the definitive version of Street Fighter II
It's street fighter 2 but HD and complete
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An early game in my Switch collection that I enjoyed playing at the time. The enhanced visuals and updated artstyle was amazing to look at while playing all of the character arcade stories. The controls work great and being able to play two player on one Switch was awesome. The extra Ryu gamemode was fun as well to try and get a high score on. My favorite version of SF II.
Don't like fighting games
The game looks nice, even if the compulsion is always there to use the pixelated graphics style, (why that unremovable border tho?) UDON's fancy art from the PS3 and XBox360 versions makes a return if you like that sort of thing. Also selectable is the choice between the old SFX and some new, with an updated soundtrack for this run, and voices from Street Fighter IV.
Honestly though you'd have to be a big fan of Super Street Fighter originally to get the most out of this I think. This is meant to be an improvement over the aforementioned PS3 and XBox360 editions with the addition of Irritable Ryan and Angry Kevin, but you'd be hard pressed to want to shell out £40 for yet another iteration of the same game. On the plus side, the controls are smooth, and gameplay flawless as expected, the new soundtrack is great. On the negative side Hado mode is garbage, joycon controls are ridiculous, and yes, I still miss the bonus stages.
Honestly though you'd have to be a big fan of Super Street Fighter originally to get the most out of this I think. This is meant to be an improvement over the aforementioned PS3 and XBox360 editions with the addition of Irritable Ryan and Angry Kevin, but you'd be hard pressed to want to shell out £40 for yet another iteration of the same game. On the plus side, the controls are smooth, and gameplay flawless as expected, the new soundtrack is great. On the negative side Hado mode is garbage, joycon controls are ridiculous, and yes, I still miss the bonus stages.
super turbo again but for 50 dollars in 2023
Its not bad.
I played it at a friend's house once. It's Street Fighter II, of course it's good.
Me cago en todo, pudo ser la mejor versión del juego pero el Netcode pedorro de la Switch arruina el juego
Buen Juego
Is the best version of Street Fighter 2? Yes from a casual viewpoint, but you might want to ask a fighting game vet what the best version is. Is it worth getting standalone over the switch anniversary collection? Absolutely not, 2 palette swaps and better graphics do not beat every prior version of SF2 in history + all the other classic SF games
I got this on Switch because there was literally NOTHING else to play at the time
It exist
Ultra Street Fighter II is an ABOMINATION because it's pure pandering to those stupid people who want Street Fighter to stay stuck in the past forever. I get FURIOUS at the mention of that hateful game. That DINOSAUR game resurrected in our age. GET LOST, SFII SPIT!!!
Best way to enjoy Street Fighter II. Yes, I said it.
It's just super turbo again with some minor changes and two """""""""""new"""""""""" characters.
The good news is that it's super turbo again. A game as classic as darts or billard. A game that in a perfect world every human should at least have played a few times in their lives. A game that should be installed in every type of public social place.
You can now also customize the color pallette of your character and switch between redrawn sprites and the original sprites. The new ones look kinda ugly and since the frame count of the animations isn't updated it just looks more like a cheap flashgame than anything. Still nice to have for visual variety.
I think this is a good game to be released for the switch since you can now take it to parties or gatherings (at least according to old commercials, oddly enough people don't really seem to use the switch as a handheld much these days)
The good news is that it's super turbo again. A game as classic as darts or billard. A game that in a perfect world every human should at least have played a few times in their lives. A game that should be installed in every type of public social place.
You can now also customize the color pallette of your character and switch between redrawn sprites and the original sprites. The new ones look kinda ugly and since the frame count of the animations isn't updated it just looks more like a cheap flashgame than anything. Still nice to have for visual variety.
I think this is a good game to be released for the switch since you can now take it to parties or gatherings (at least according to old commercials, oddly enough people don't really seem to use the switch as a handheld much these days)
I have no shortage of ways to play SF2, and this is far and away my favorite of them all. Just feels so dang good in the ways ST is meant to, and it's a noob-friendly enough version for my scrub ass to have fun getting into. Try to catch it on sale though, $40 does feel silly of an asking price for SF2 in the 2020s.
even 6 years later im still haunted by the fact that i paid 50 dollars for street fighter 2 .
Pega Street Fighter 2, bora deixar o jogo um bilhão de vezes mais fácil no modo normal, fazer um estilo visual que tinha potencial mas parece mais algo feito de IA de tão sem graça, com a exata mesma gameplay, com os mesmos slowdowns, mesmo tudo.
É o pior tipo de remake que já vi, mais feio que o original, e não evolui em nada, tirando a trilha sonora que é muito boa. Nossa que bagulho decepcionante.
É o pior tipo de remake que já vi, mais feio que o original, e não evolui em nada, tirando a trilha sonora que é muito boa. Nossa que bagulho decepcionante.
olha essa e a versão q eu toquei e deu pra eu zerar dado a desgraça de dificil que e a versão turbo.
como joguei no emulador quero q se foda mas pagar 50 dolares em um jogo de snes so com sprite diferente e de fuder em
alias eu n gosto de street fighter 2 mas reconheço seu valor.
como joguei no emulador quero q se foda mas pagar 50 dolares em um jogo de snes so com sprite diferente e de fuder em
alias eu n gosto de street fighter 2 mas reconheço seu valor.
Honestly a great fighting game. But honestly god, why another SF2 port
way too hard for me. goofy
Maybe the most unnecessary game in the franchise. Is it good.... yeah. Is it worth playing, not really unless you love violent Ken. Good game but just another version of SF2
what a weird release. who was this made for?
Pretty overpriced when I got it at launch, but as someone who wanted a fighting game for the switch and likes Street Fighter II, this game served it’s purpose. Just pick up the anniversary collection if you want a more well-rounded set of street fighter games on switch.
I struggle to think about a game release that puzzles me as much as this. An upgrade of JUST Street Fighter II for $40 exclusively on the Switch, when compilations like the the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection and the newly announced Capcom Fighting Collection both include Street Fighter II alongside several other games and either are or will likely be cheaper. It just makes me wonder who this game is even for in that regard.
as someone who doesn't really care about fighting games, there's just not much content to keep me playing
It was decent and I liked the extra Ryu mode