Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Super Street Fighter IV — First Impressions

Other than the Third Strike characters slowing down a little and Ibuki losing a couple of my favorite combos—like sweep into standing roundhouse—I've got three problems with the game, not the gameplay necessarily.
  1. It seems like the CPU is way more into their projectiles now. Rose and Guile did almost nothing but throw shit at me.
  2. There doesn't seem to be a way to control the voice language at the character level. I had Ryu, Akuma, and Gouken in Japanese and Ken in English in SFIV. Can't do that here?
  3. I like the new "colors" but was expecting a little more from previously owning SFIV. I don't really know what I expected but am still, somehow, a little disappointed.
That's all for now. Seeing Ibuki, Dudley, and Makoto in their 3D form definitely brought a smile to my face.

Update: I retract #2. You unlock it after clearing Arcade—maybe on Medium or higher.
Update 2: The Ibuki combo I mentioned is in there, it's just a target combo that requires a Fierce to lead in.

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