Street Fighter EX developer Arika has announced a new fighting game for the PlayStation 4, which started life as an April Fools’ Day gag. The title – which doesn’t yet have a name, but is being billed Arika EX for the time being – is scheduled to release on the PlayStation 4 in 2018, with a playable beta due at some point later this year.
You can check out some of the characters and a ton of the gameplay in the video embedded above. The last entry in the Street Fighter EX series launched on the PlayStation 2 over 15 years ago, so even though it’s lacking Ryu et al, you could argue that this title is long overdue.
[source youtube.com, via siliconera.com]
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Skullomania ! Launching on April Fools O_o
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I hope they bring back Cracker Jack, he was my favorite character to play in that game.
Never liked the Street Fighter EX games so not a bit excited about this.
There's another kickstarter game called Fantasy Strike developed by an ex-Street Fighter employee as well if I'm not mistaken.
Fighting Layer is dope af and this new one looks fantastic. SO HAPPY to see Arika making killer-looking fighting games again, after years of being wasted under Nintendo making stuff like Dr.Luigi and ports for the 3DS for the past decade :/
That being said, it looks like this has switched from fully 3D like it was a few months ago to fully 2D in gameplay, which is a little disappointing if true. There's only Tekken 7 (and to a lesser extent since its quite old now, DOA5) that are dealing with 3D fighting now - sidesteps, 8-way runs, etc. Literally EVERY other "serious" (non-One Piece, Naruto or Seven Deadly Sins) contemporary fighter is 2D in nature, so if this is just another one... that'll be a bit a bummer, not gonna lie.
I mean, this looks like different gameplay here, yeah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2x8c-RFGnA
Now, it looks locked to 2D, pretty much. They pulled the camera back, made the jumps faster & higher, seemingly got rid of the sidestepping sidestepping, etc It still looks good, and like a(nother) strong "2.5D" fighter, but it looks a bit less intense than it did a few months ago.
Still looking forward to seeing more though!
@WanderingBullet Yeah, Fantasy Strike is currently crowdfunding. Not on Kickstarter, but its been running on Patreon for months and is on Fig now - that Double Fine "investor platform" thing. So... I dunno, I feel like its doomed? The only successful Fig campaigns I can think of are Double Fine's own.
I don't know how much Dave Sirlin is an ex-Street Fighter dev though - I don't know how much any Western developer has been involved in Street Fighter, or to what capacity, and I'm too lazy to look it up Localization? Something with Udon? Something with the port houses that did games like Super SF2 Turbo HD Remix? They don't develop games in the West so * shrugs * But he's been working on the game's universe for some time - its got a card game already called Yomi. And Fantasy Strike IS kind of interesting... Remember the Super Best Friends showed it off recently and its got some cool ideas for sure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f9x_jj6v60
Its a shame it looks so rough currently though. Like, 2 months ago they decided to slap a cel-shader on there, and it looks not great right now.
This is what it looked like before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD5IjWgdmto
This is what it looks like now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpakPZJplEk
I dunno. Those big, harsh, pure black shadows right now... it just reminds me of games where, they look around and think they can't compete visually with other titles, so they turn on the cel shader and say its a "graphic novel inspired aesthetic" or whatever. Real mediocre, forgettable stuff like that vampire game "Dark" or "The Darkness 2" (which is an okay game, but the cel shader implementation sucks). This kind of implementation is a million miles from really well-crafted cel shaded visuals like in Dragon Ball FighterZ, Guilty Gear Revelator, any Naruto game, etc. Its real lazy.
Don't want to nitpick but a little late on the news.
@TruthfulVoice He was the lead designer for one of the SF games I think.
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