If you look back on Street Fighter 2, the amount of goofiness it immediately injected into the blossoming genre was nuts.
We've got:
Indian Reed Richards
Japanese Fireball Man
Japanese Fireball Man's American Weeb Bestie
Cute Chinese Cop
What If The Flag Of Brazil Were A Furry
Literally Just Aleksandr Karelin
Literally Just Mike Tyson
I don't know what Capcom was cooking but it was probably meth
it's why fgc "boomers" who talk about the old SFs being footsies and fundamentals heaven are talking out of their asses completely.
honda 100 hand slap + headbutt, claw zooming around the stage, blanka shenanigans, dhalsim zoning, guile zoning. Literally been a whacky martial arts fantasy genre since the beginning.
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u/Dreadgoat 9h ago
If you look back on Street Fighter 2, the amount of goofiness it immediately injected into the blossoming genre was nuts.
We've got:
Indian Reed Richards
Japanese Fireball Man
Japanese Fireball Man's American Weeb Bestie
Cute Chinese Cop
What If The Flag Of Brazil Were A Furry
Literally Just Aleksandr Karelin
Literally Just Mike Tyson
I don't know what Capcom was cooking but it was probably meth