Every second that I'm spending with this not-so-new release, I'm asking myself: why? And there's just no reasonable response beyond: Capcom would like your money, please, Switch owners without a great deal of new game options right now. The Final Challengers isn't a bad game, building as it does on some fantastically acclaimed foundations-but it's one that most of us have played before, be that in its HD Remix guise, the first Super installment with its added characters, or way back on the Super Nintendo, the first console to receive a port of the original SFII, which suited its six-button pad perfectly. For II to be brought back, though, smacks of self-indulgence too much in the year of the series' 30 th anniversary. I stuck plenty of hours into the 360 version, too, back in 2009, having a lot of fun with what really felt like a return to the second game without sacrificing the lessons learned since its release.Īccepting that V is never going to be available for any console but a Sony one, seeing IV come across to Switch would have been cool, given its absence on a home Nintendo console. Which is a game that's been on Nintendo before-I've the 3DS version right here, and it's not half bad, given the limitations of its platform. But it simply cannot compete with the work that's gone into V, and its wildly popular predecessor, the multi-iterated Street Fighter IV. Yes, an effort's been made to rebalance the gameplay, with adjustments made to encourage more contemporary combo inputs. The core Street Fighter experience has been superseded several times since this iteration-with Street Fighter V out there, playable using a range of fight sticks, with super fluid movement and comprehensive frame data analysis, Nobody who lives for these games, for this series, is going to approach this with anything more than casual interest. What we effectively have here is 2008's Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix-getting to Kingdom Hearts levels of title silliness, there-with a few extra modes added and a comprehensive (over 1,400 images!) but ultimately unnecessary gallery feature. This game, at its age, on this platform, is an immediate pass from the more serious sections of the fighting game community.
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But Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers is neither a welcome revival of what was the ultimate fighting game, in 1991, nor is it a superbly refined update of a classic that's engineered to appeal to younger fans of the genre. I mean, I loved this game-even before it reached the home market, I used to sneak games of it in, on the only arcade cab at the local leisure center. The announcement that another Street Fighter II was coming to Nintendo's new Switch console therefore sent a few nostalgic ripples across the increasingly stagnant lake of memories that many of us enjoy a dip into from time to time.
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