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While it would have been cool to have Psylocke playable in this one-or see other comic book mainstays in action, like Nightcrawler-the cast does feel incredibly well chosen overall.Īfter a cameo in COTA, Akuma is back again as a “secrect” character.
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In fact, all the X-Men characters are all based on their 90’s cartoon incarnations, even using the same voice actors from the TV show! This is why we get the likes of Gambit, Rogue, and Sabertooth, but Colossus, Iceman, and Psylocke don’t return characters featured in the cartoon took priority.
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(The original title for the Alpha series was “Street Fighter Zero”, which is still what it’s called in Japan.) Capcom was truly on top of their game at this time and their pixel art mastery was phenomenal.Īs previously mentioned, Gambit is playable, which was a huge deal for me. This is also the reason for the game “X” and “Z” visual styling, where X is for X-Men and Z is for Zero. Sure, most of the sprites here were reused from COTA and SFA2-which is why Charlie Nash is playable instead of Guile-but artwork and animation just look amazing. Must like the sweet stage backgrounds, the character sprites in this game are absolutely top-notch. The fight can continue into the sewers below street level though, which I will now pretend was a subtle homage to TMNT. But I was definitely wrong it’s Manhattan and there are no zombies. Perhaps I imagined this reference because Jill Valentine eventually appeared in MvC2.
There’s a Manhattan stage with cops and police dogs all over the street that I had misremembered as being Raccoon City from Resident Evil-a game which was released earlier that same year. Many of them feature locations reminiscent of events from X-Men cartoon, including a shopping mall, the Danger Room, and an exploding power plant. Speaking of the backgrounds, they are pretty incredible. In fact, some of the stage backgrounds transition to another part of the scene. If you’re particularly fond of rounds in matches for some reason, as soon as the first character is knocked out, it more or less feel like you’re moving on to Round 2. Instead of fighting multiple rounds (best 2 out of 3), the fight is played out in a single bout, with each fighter having their own lifebar to protect. I LOST MY MUTHAF^CKING MIND! This was the single coolest thing ever to happen in the history of cool things!ĭue to the tag team setup, the matches in this game are one consistent fight. So image the shock and awe on display when 13-year-old Lucas, both a hardcore X-Men superfan and dedicated SF player, saw an X-Men vs Street Fighter machine at a mall arcade in Ames, Iowa. By the middle of the decade, I was a hardcore SF fan as well. When Street Fighter Alpha came out, I was even more pumped for its overtly anime aesthetic, and really dove into the series’s story and characters (extremely light as they were). I also watched the campy Hollywood disasterpiece starring Van Damme and Raul Julia.
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I watched and rewatched Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie-which I genuinely believe is a secretly good film and the best video game movie of all time. I dug into SF player guides just to see the artwork. We of course had SF2, SF2 Turbo, and Super SF2-which I believe was the version I played the most. Street Fighter II on SNES had introduced us to the Fighting Game genre and gotten me immediately hooked.