Fun with fairly strong aesthetics and a banger soundtrack.
Tons of characters and lots of returning faces from Alpha, my personal favourite. Old classic Rival Schools is also very prominent with Akira and plenty of stage cameos.
While the game is very pretty this entry still doesn't translate well from the classic pixel art - the oversized palms and feet looks awkward on some characters and hair is mostly a mess - crazy anime hair doesn't really translate well, designs like Charlie and Rose looked good in 2d but are a bit harder to take seriously here, not that the game cares much for serious.
Story mode is a silly Power Rangers plot with little coherence. It's an impressive attempt at a cinematic approach but the mystique is gone. When the story bits were short and rare in earlier game there was a lot of room for imagination to fill in gaps, and now I feel this fairly lengthy story mode doesn't really say more than the minimal lines Alpha had for example.
Difficualy wise I couldn't tell if there were massive spikes in the last parts or it was just being forced to play characters I'm less comfortable with.
I feel those were spikes that my casual ass had a lot of trouble dealing with near perfect defence and punishment. Sometimes I treated those as an actual training grounds, but some I eventually just skipped after several tries.
The characters screen time is whack as well, poster boy Ryu literally only appears in the opening and closing acts and doesn't do much.
There's also a silly little personal story for each characters. They had varying quality but I liked those as they focused on slice of life rather than world ending drama. The art in this mod takes a while to get used to but it works.
The stage lights disco ball look for the pre fights looks great and I've never seen a direction like that before.
Main menu is an ugly messy sin, filled with buttons and store fronts, timed missions that you need to purchase tickets for with slowly acquired currency. It's not as bad as the nonsense I've seen in Injustice 2 earlier this year but this still has no place in a fighting game.
You can see some seeds for 6 - splashes of colour appear during certain combos and you get to fight normal people like OLD COP.
Street Fighter 5, six years in, is very fun and if the sequel wasn't so well received I might have tried to actually get good in it.
Tons of characters and lots of returning faces from Alpha, my personal favourite. Old classic Rival Schools is also very prominent with Akira and plenty of stage cameos.
While the game is very pretty this entry still doesn't translate well from the classic pixel art - the oversized palms and feet looks awkward on some characters and hair is mostly a mess - crazy anime hair doesn't really translate well, designs like Charlie and Rose looked good in 2d but are a bit harder to take seriously here, not that the game cares much for serious.
Story mode is a silly Power Rangers plot with little coherence. It's an impressive attempt at a cinematic approach but the mystique is gone. When the story bits were short and rare in earlier game there was a lot of room for imagination to fill in gaps, and now I feel this fairly lengthy story mode doesn't really say more than the minimal lines Alpha had for example.
Difficualy wise I couldn't tell if there were massive spikes in the last parts or it was just being forced to play characters I'm less comfortable with.
I feel those were spikes that my casual ass had a lot of trouble dealing with near perfect defence and punishment. Sometimes I treated those as an actual training grounds, but some I eventually just skipped after several tries.
The characters screen time is whack as well, poster boy Ryu literally only appears in the opening and closing acts and doesn't do much.
There's also a silly little personal story for each characters. They had varying quality but I liked those as they focused on slice of life rather than world ending drama. The art in this mod takes a while to get used to but it works.
The stage lights disco ball look for the pre fights looks great and I've never seen a direction like that before.
Main menu is an ugly messy sin, filled with buttons and store fronts, timed missions that you need to purchase tickets for with slowly acquired currency. It's not as bad as the nonsense I've seen in Injustice 2 earlier this year but this still has no place in a fighting game.
You can see some seeds for 6 - splashes of colour appear during certain combos and you get to fight normal people like OLD COP.
Street Fighter 5, six years in, is very fun and if the sequel wasn't so well received I might have tried to actually get good in it.