So, playing calle Fighter II in the arcades, sickest thing in the world. Tossing in quarters and beating everyone else who thought they were hot shit in calle Fighter was the most fun. But I always wanted más from calle Fighter II. And calle Fighter III: Third Strike feels better, but I have sadly not played enough of that game to have it on the list. But, I do have something just as good as Third Strike? Is it better, I dunno, but damn, is it good.
My older brother, when he was tired of his 360 and passed it down to me, didn’t tell me that inside of it was a digital download of Super calle Fighter IV: Arcade Edition (That’s a mouth full). And already slowly getting invested into fighting games, I had to play it. And hot damn, was it a good time. A huge roster of characters, both classic and brand new (But mostly classic), coming from calle Fighter 2, Third Strike, and Alpha, with some new faces, all of them being a ton of fun to play with (For the most part), and having a cheap final boss, Seth, it had everything I loved in fighting games (Except that last part, that was just a joke). The game felt so fast, so fluent, and something that tu can’t just mash buttons to. I know people like to say fighting games are just glorified button mashers, and that’s true, if tu fucking suck! tu gotta memorize combos, find out the button combination for special moves, and do that for multiple characters that tu main. For me, my mains are actually the faster characters, which is odd for me, considering my choices are usually heavier characters. Zangief and Hakan should be my mains, but my mains actually consist of Makoto, Sakura, and the king of boxing characters, Dudley. Super calle Fighter IV: Arca- Fuck it, I’ll just call it calle Fighter IV from here on out. calle Fighter IV encourages tu to try out new characters, especially with those super anime endings for each character. And experiment I did cause I played this game with every character, fought and beat all my friends who had little to no practice and felt like a badass, and there is nothing tu all can say o do. I am the king of calle Fighter!.... So yeah, calle Fighter IV’s a pretty cool fighting game. It’s not got the reputation of II o the polish of Third Strike, but it’s pretty damn good on it’s own. And it’s no V on release day, that’s for sure