Rival Schools' Akira Kazama Returns in Street Fighter 5

Rival Schools Remake Confirmed!

Besides new fighters, anything else new?

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@BloodNinja Season 5 brought a technique called V-shift that acts like a slo-mo parry along with the usual character tweaks. I haven’t done much with it yet, but I’ve seen people who are actually good at the game pull of some impressive comebacks with it.

It’s nice to know Capcom hasn’t completely forgot about Rival Schools. In the meantime I’ll be looking forward to Rose.

@shonenjump86 Rose used to be a hardest difficulty Arcade Mode run killer for me in Street Fighter IV. Can’t tell if I really want her back or not 😂

@nessisonett She’s been a favorite of mine since the Alpha games. She was a second main of mine in Street Fighter IV online matches, so I’m glad to have her back,

PLEASE MAKE A NEW RIVAL SCHOOLS CAPCOM

@Amnesiac Cool, thanks!

She seem to have translated pretty well to SFV. Totally blown by what they did with Rose anyways, so much detail

I thought I am old enough to understand what's this all about.
But I don't.

I loved Rival Schools so much. The PS1 game was such a complete package with the arcade mode on one disc and a more home console-ified version with plenty of mini games on the other disc. I played all the different modes so much as a kid, it was brilliant.

I'd love a similarly packaged revival to come out with everything available in one purchase at launch. None of this 10 years worth of season passes shenanigans that plague modern fighting games.

I'm really excited for Akira in SFV, she was one of my favourite characters in Rival Schools along with Shoma, Matsu, Batsu, Sakura and the rest of the characters! I'm just still waiting on that elusive "complete" edition of SFV to drop before I spend any money on it!

If we never get a new Rival Schools this is the next best thing: seeing them slowly merged into the Street Fighter roster. Now about that new Dark Stalkers...

I've got fond memories of Rival Schools on PS1.

@ralphdibny Hi there friend.
Man, I still remember being a kid and going to an electronics store to buy a game as a birthday present, getting to the games shelf and having to choose between Rivals Schools and
X-Men Vs Street Fighter.
I looked at both and was like:" A fighting game from Capcom with kids from different schools beating the crap at each other and their teachers? And with two discs full of content?
Mom, I´m getting this one."
And could not be more happy with my choice.
Played the game so much, unlocking all the characters and all of the weird student combinations mismatch charaters.
It was super fun. My mains and favourites were and still are:
Hyo, Shoma, Hideo, Akira, Hinata, Daigo, Roy and kyoko.
And just like @TheFrenchiestFry said
PLEASE CAPCOM MAKE A NEW RIVAL SCHOOLS!
AND DARKSTALKERS!
Cheers, stay safe good people and happy gaming to us all

@RaZieLDaNtE cheers! I think I just about got away with it because it had the word "schools" in the title. I remember my dad giving me hassle about buying Mortal Kombat Trilogy because it was a "15" even though I'd played all the previous games and had seen both movies before that 😅

I loved all the sports mini games in Rival Schools like the baseball and the penalty shootouts. I'd love modern and comprehensive collections of the Darkstalkers and Capcom Vs games. Would be awesome. Stay safe to you too!

i'm still waiting for a ps5 upgrade / update. also any word of who will be the mystery person?

@ralphdibny Yeah, the mini games were awesome and good fun.
The game had so much charm, style and a certain coolness.
It´s a shame most games, specialy fighting games, are now launched with not as much content as before and it´s all payed dlc and microtransactions.
Cheers, stay safe and have a good one

Capcoms killing it! Too bad its at the end of the games life. I will probably definitely be adding akura to my mains!

@twitchtvpat i thought itd be someone REALLY crazy , like a real major character but after the spring update i believe its going to be shaun. I think we got hints from oro, during his tengu stone super (or whatever its called) some items that appear are rubble AND the handheld game system hes seen with AND his basketball!