That if they can’t have one option cover multiple set ups, then it’s the fault of the game and not the player. These elements in Street Fighter IV taught players that they shouldn’t commit to reads in key situations.

This system is there to kill off the bad habit of Street Fighter IV players learning to spam Jabs (light punch) and Shorts (light kick) to get out of trouble.Īnother example? Street Fighter IV style option selects and true ambiguous setups are squashed as much as possible in Street Fighter V.

If that doesn’t sit well with you, then really - don’t play Street Fighter V.įor example, Street Fighter V uses the crush counter system, where a harder normal attack “crushes” an opponent putting out a weaker attack at the same time. It’s trying to correct, through tough love, the horrible habits players developed in Street Fighter IV. Street Fighter V is, and always has been, the anti-Street Fighter IV. While Street Fighter IV should be praised for ushering in an era of fighting games becoming an esports phenomenon, its many bugs and quirks created an environment of gimmicks over fundamentals. The gist is that Street Fighter V maintains a philosophy of fundamentals over gimmicks. If a character is blue, they are in a state of being safe, and they are unsafe if they are red.īoth of these tools are helpful for practicing and discovering block strings and frame trap set ups (or finding counters when defending against block strings and frame traps) without having to study a spreadsheet full of character frame data and working out the math in your head.Įverything I said about the core game in my original review of Street Fighter V in early 2016 is still very much on point when discussing Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition. Such as the frame gauge, which is a visual aide for showing how long a move is actually active.Ĭapcom also added a color-based safety setting, which assigns a color to both characters in the training mode based off of if they are “safe” while performing or blocking a move. Training mode received two incredible frame-data based tools. It’s not a gimmicky feature, and it could be used to ease running legitimate team format tournaments. Team Battle in Street Fighter V, however, is highly customizable, with options that actually matter in a tournament environment. When Capcom has tried to implement these sort of features before, they’ve come off as a bit disconnected from the needs of the community that inspired them. Team-based competition is a popular format in the fighting game community, where teams of three to five players fight each other Pokémon-style. For example, if you run tournaments, you’re going to love the Team Battle settings that Capcom has added. Capcom slipped some small-but-significant tools inside of Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition that are incredibly useful.

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