Street Fighter II: The World Warrior

Played: 16 hours
Record: 231 400 points
Level: Hard

Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior is what a lot of my childhood memories are. Not so much beating the story, the cpu is very difficult, but going to friends houses and playing hours and hours of Street Fighter.

Capcom Arcade Stadium.

The original Street Fighter II is an important title for the fighting genre and arcades too.
It has a charming style, awesome pixel art, a memorable soundtrack and characyers, making it one of the most enjoyable fighting games even for the new generations.
Nedless to say, the TRUE Street Fighter is played against other players. While fighting against the CPU provides some hints about the characters personality and story (basically a Story Mode, which consists in fighting the other 7 fighters and 4 bosses and timately shows you a cute cutscene), the A.I. was poorly designed and it often cheat just to beat the player so the original Arcade version can get some more money.
Despite it sounding like a lie, it was actually confirmed that the CPU has an unfair advantage over the player: it can instantly use charged attack, sometimes it has invincibility, others it can't be parried and others it just skip frames to attack first.
Despite that, the game can still be beated, somehow, and it really gives you a great feeling to achieve it, even if you basically won't ever see the ending in the Arcade one unless you have unlimited money or own and Arcade yourself.
The original Street Fighter II is quite simple, it doesn't have super moves and each character has few, but distinc moves. Despite it semplicity, this game played with friends is pure fun.

Street Fighter II é daqueles jogos base para o gênero de luta, é desafiador observar ele pra além de seu legado, é importante destacar que minhas impressões são da versão de SNES. A jogabilidade foi o elemento que mais me gerou estranheza, ela é mais truncada que imaginava, claro comparado com jogos da época ele é competente, mas pra hoje em dia ele sente o peso do tempo. A diversidade de personagens é bacana, os visuais são bem bonitos, especialmente das fases é impressionante o nível de detalhe. A trilha é muito boa, ela definiu basicamente como jogos de luta fariam daqui em diante, faixas para personagens e estágios.

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