{"id":932,"date":"2020-10-25T00:05:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T04:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/?p=932"},"modified":"2022-07-17T17:07:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T21:07:49","slug":"super-street-fighter-ii-4q2020-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/index.php\/2020\/10\/25\/super-street-fighter-ii-4q2020-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Street Fighter II<\/span> \u2014 4Q2020<\/span> issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Super fight\u00ading fun again<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Though I play a lot of fight\u00ading game series, I keep com\u00ading back to Street Fight\u00ader. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s out of habit or because I\u2019m com\u00adfort\u00adable with the series\u2019 sys\u00adtems, but I find myself inti\u00admate\u00adly famil\u00adiar with the Cap\u00adcom cre\u00adation. It start\u00aded with Street Fight\u00ader II<\/span> for SNES<\/span>, not the arcade. As the series moved along incre\u00admen\u00adtal\u00adly, so did I and I dis\u00adcov\u00adered the upgrade. The home port of Super Street Fight\u00ader II<\/span> for SNES<\/span> was one of the best and that acco\u00adlade still stands after near\u00adly 30 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Though Cap\u00adcom still hadn\u2019t learned to count to three and Super Street Fight\u00ader II<\/span> reeks of milk\u00ading the fran\u00adchise for all it was worth, it\u2019s tech\u00adni\u00adcal\u00adly a good port. This is the best ver\u00adsion of the arcade expe\u00adri\u00adence before Super Tur\u00adbo, and the SNES<\/span>, despite its prob\u00adlems with cen\u00adsor\u00adship, is the best ver\u00adsion you\u2019re going to get. Super is where you\u2019re intro\u00adduced to the four new chal\u00adlengers, who add some inter\u00adest\u00ading ele\u00adments. Each of their fight\u00ading styles are already rep\u00adre\u00adsent\u00aded in the game with oth\u00ader stal\u00adwarts, but they\u2019re fun to play, nevertheless.<\/span><\/p>\n

The music has hit its peak here, too. It\u2019s the same as the orig\u00adi\u00adnal Street Fight\u00ader II<\/span> and Hyper Fight\u00ading, but it\u2019s Street Fight\u00ader at peak Street Fight\u00ader. That also applies to the con\u00adtrols. It\u2019s the Street Fight\u00ader that you know and love but cleaned up just a tad.<\/span><\/p>\n

My main gripe with the game is the fact that it\u2019s not Street Fight\u00ader III<\/span>, which it would have been if not for the insis\u00adtence of Cap\u00adcom not count\u00ading ahead. Cap\u00adcom knew it had a win\u00adner on its hands but repeat\u00aded\u00adly milked the fran\u00adchise until there was noth\u00ading else to wring from it. Super would absolute\u00adly have been great if not for the fact that Super Tur\u00adbo came a year lat\u00ader and there had already been two oth\u00ader incre\u00admen\u00adtal iter\u00ada\u00adtions of the game pre\u00advi\u00adous\u00adly. That cheap\u00adens Super to a degree all around. How\u00adev\u00ader, giv\u00aden that Super Tur\u00adbo did not come home from the arcades for the SNES<\/span>, Super gets a boost in nos\u00adtal\u00adgic factor.<\/span><\/p>\n

What you need to take away from SSFII<\/span> is the refine\u00adment of the Street Fight\u00ader II<\/span> expe\u00adri\u00adence, and this is where it shines. Every\u00adthing about Street Fight\u00ader II<\/span> was at peak con\u00addi\u00adtion and refined to a tee with this iter\u00ada\u00adtion. Yes, this is pre-Tur\u00adbo super moves and spe\u00adcials but in a way that makes it the last true unspoiled Street Fight\u00ader II<\/span> expe\u00adri\u00adence. It was so good that lat\u00ader Street Fight\u00ader games attempt to repli\u00adcate this ver\u00adsion with modes that play like Super with no super moves and most, if not all, of its mechan\u00adics. That\u2019s how you know it\u2019s a defin\u00ading moment in a series\u2019 lifes\u00adpan. It\u2019s a super fight\u00ading game for a super sys\u00adtem that still holds up.<\/span><\/p>\n