Ok first off, "Street Fighter IV:" It is a beautiful game to behold, especially on an HDTV. The characters look incredible, there's a lot of neat stuff going on in the background as you are trying to beat someone into dust, and the music is great. All the old favorites are back (Chun Li, E. Honda, Blanca, Zangief, Guile, Ryu, Ken, etc.) plus a few new faces make the cut in the list of fighters you can choose from. At first glance, this is a great game.....
Then you play it and soon realize that the combos that everyone boasts about are incredibly hard to pull off (especially the Super and Ultra combos), and that each fight quickly degenerates into "button-mashing." (My f*cking thumbs hurt!) Heck, even performing special moves like Ken and Ryu's Hadoken is a challenge here. Usually I end up doing a Shoryuken instead, which leaves you completely open for attack if you miss.
Then there's the part in the Arcade Mode where you take on your RIVAL (e.g. Ryu and Sagat, Ken and some fat-ass named Rufus). The difficulty during a match with your arch-rival is friggin' ridiculous! I played the game on Very Easy with RYU, just to try and get a feel for the controls. When I had my showdown with Sagat, I slowly but surely began to get pissed off. I had to redo the match FOUR times before I took that bald bitch down! I realize that these guys are rivals and that Sagat would probably put up a tougher fight than most contenders, but c'mon Capcom, this is bullshit!
And then there's "Seth," this bionic, humanoid sumbitch that has the special abilities of every fighter in the game. In your first match, you will probably sweep the floor with him and think "Heh, that was too easy. This guy is a cinch to beat!" Then the blue bastard gets up and unleashes an arsenal of jaw-dropping combos that you are helpless against. I had to redo this battle multiple times as well, and remember, this is with the game on VERY EASY. (There is an even wussier difficulty setting called EASIEST, but I haven't resorted to utilizing that yet.)
Granted I haven't played a fighting game since......... uh..... "Mortal Kombat" for the Gamecube (I think), so I'm really rusty at these types of games. But truthfully, that's only part of the problem. The big one is with the controls. Your character moves fluently enough, and the response to what buttons your hitting is perfectly fine. It's just that the special moves and combos are so hard to pull off, which becomes ten times more frustrating when your opponent is hitting you with brutal combos every ten seconds or so.
Overall, this is a great game and a perfect addition to the "Street Fighter" series, I just wish it was easier to make your fighter do all the cool stuff he or she is supposed to.
When I turn my X-BOX 360 on later (once my blood stops boiling) I'm probably going to go into training mode and see if I can get the hang of all these pesky moves.
Before I move on to anything else, here's a few extra things about the game I want to tell you:
1. Chun-Li has HUGE f*cking hands! They are monstrously disproportionate to her small feminine body.... and is it me or are her thighs ridiculously thick and muscular too?
2. Rufus is a piece of shit. I hate fighting this tub of lard, especially with Ken (mainly because they are rivals). This guy has some of the most devastating combos I've witnessed in any game, but I guess that's to make up for his monstrous case of obesity.
3. Seth seems like a rip-off of Cell from Dragonball Z and is infuriating to fight. As I stated before, he goes easy on you (sort of) during the first match, then goes balls to the wall after that, assailing you with so many devastating attacks that you begin to wonder why you even bought this game.
Yeah I probably just really suck at "Street Fighter IV" and refuse to admit it, but c'mon, I don't recall Street Fighter II ever being this difficult!
Moving on then....
I'm going to be doing some work on the Vault tonight. I didn't really mean to take so long between updates, but it just sort of happened. Sometimes, I would just rather sit and enjoy movies instead of writing about them, but thankfully, I'm ready to get back on track. Expect last week's AND this week's Genre Watch to be posted SOON, along with a capsule review for "Friday the 13th" (2009)!
Blog ya later b-movie (and Street Fighter) fans!
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