Gem Fighter feels like the kind of game you'd bring to a crowd of casual Smash players to get them into a similarly chaotic fighting game that nonetheless plays closer to something traditional. I'm curious what the competitive scene for a game like that even looks like.
Obviously the big winner of this collection is Vampire Savior, but that's nothing new considering V Sav is the biggest Cult Classic Capcom fighting game. The game I am most personally interested in learning after going through the collection though is Cyberbots. That game looks like it has some really neat ideas and has been overlooked for a long time.
I mean it might or might not be. Matsumoto said that this game isn't being given the so-called "Capcom test" but I wouldn't be surprised if, should it do well, we might end up with either more rereleases (i.e. a 3D fighters compilation, more leverage for getting licenses like Marvel and Jojo's on board, etc.), or in best case scenario a new entry in one of the series represented.
From my personal experience, seems like the most popular games for online play are Hyper SF 2 (because of course), Vampire Savior, Puzzle Fighter, and Pocket Fighter. Cyberbots is a cool game but appeals to a very specific crowd, and Red Earth isn't really suited well for PVP because of the level up system and the fact that there are only 4 playable characters. And the rest of the Darkstalkers games barring maybe Hunter live in the shadow of Vampire Savior being one of the most beloved games of all time among the FGC diehards.
In honor pride month, SugarPunch Design Works and the 4thSnake look at some of their favorite LGBT and non-binary characters in fighting games. These include:
- Poison (transgender woman) and Seth (non-binary android) from Street Fighter.
- Ladiva and Cagliostro (both transgender women) from Granblue Fantasy Versus.
- Kung Jin (gay man), Mileena and Tanya (bisexual women) from Mortal Kombat.
Is Bridget considered non-binary? I always thought he was just a guy forced to crossdress.
Get taxed. Idiot.Not mentioned in the video:
- Any One Piece games (it has a few fighting games, they're just not good): Luffy (aroace), Mr 2 Bon Clay (bigender), Ivankov (genderfluid).
- Any Jojo games: DIO (bisexual) and like, half of the cast (implied homosexual/bisexual).
Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Jun 30th 2022 at 1:23:48 AM
Sonson from Marvel vs. Capcom 2 and El Fuerte from Street Fighter IV off the top of my head, though I'm sure there's more.
🏳️⚧️she/her | Vio Rhyse AlberiaFelicia is the only Darkstakers character that comes to mind with something close to a wall run.
Get taxed. Idiot.Curious question: how do you utilize distance and spacing to become "plus"? I'm fairly aware of how the plus and minus frames system works but I haven't heard about becoming "plus" in that way.
Trans rights are human rights. TV Tropes is not a place for bigotry, cruelty, or dickishness, no matter who or their position.Usually that refers spacing an attack so it hits later in its active frames, for instance the difference between a fireball connecting point blank versus connecting when they're a character length away. In most fighting games, moves will always have a set amount of blockstun regardless of which active frame the attack connected on, so if a move has many active frames like a projectile or a traveling move, you can change whether the move ends up being safe or unsafe by hitting it at the later active frames to move the blockstun closer to when you're about to recover. For example, Bison's slide is active the entire period he travels on the ground. Hitting it point blank means he will continue sliding and be heavily punishable, but hitting it at the furthest possible distance means that he'll recover from the move before the opponent has left blockstun.

Got the Capcom Fighting Collection.
First impressions:
Red Earth is hard.
Gem Fighter is random
Edited by KnownUnknown on Jun 24th 2022 at 6:24:20 AM