This is are my impressions of the arcade port: Street Fighter 6 Type Arcade. This is not an interpretation or review of SF6 itself, but the game slaps.
Playing this on an arcade cabinet with my friend using real sticks and buttons is magical. The cabinet was not a dedicated SF6 cab, it was just a generic Vewlix cab that the arcade was using for all their fighting games, but it was nonetheless extremely fun and forced me to look at fighting games in a new way. Motion inputs never really felt like a "motion" per se, it just felt like pushing buttons (I am a keyboard player) in a pattern that would make a figurative quarter/half/full circle, but playing on a stick made me slow down and plan attacks much farther ahead knowing that moving the stick is a much greater effort than double tapping a key. I am definitely going to keep exploring fighting games and will branch out with input methods.
Playing this on an arcade cabinet with my friend using real sticks and buttons is magical. The cabinet was not a dedicated SF6 cab, it was just a generic Vewlix cab that the arcade was using for all their fighting games, but it was nonetheless extremely fun and forced me to look at fighting games in a new way. Motion inputs never really felt like a "motion" per se, it just felt like pushing buttons (I am a keyboard player) in a pattern that would make a figurative quarter/half/full circle, but playing on a stick made me slow down and plan attacks much farther ahead knowing that moving the stick is a much greater effort than double tapping a key. I am definitely going to keep exploring fighting games and will branch out with input methods.