Super Street Fighter 4

Lately I have been playing Super Street Fighter 4 on PS3. I'm not exactly a fan of street fighter series but I played it anyway. The graphics is really good, I think it uses cell shading or whatever. The game is in 3D but plays like a 2D games (no sidestep like tekken), it bears heavy resemblance to Street Fighter 2. There are also bonus stages like destroying a car and barrel smashing, classic.


The gameplay is.... frustrating.. at least for me. Generally I don't like the input for special moves in 2D fighting games: quarter circle, half circle, full circle, full circle TWICE.. its really tiresome and difficult. The throws seem to be really powerful here, some character like Zangief and Abel specialized in grappling, and once their moves connected you can't escape their throws.

Anyway, after countless humiliating defeat against CPU and my brother (he's good in any fighting games), I decided to undergo a training, you know, to become less suck.
I picked Makoto as my main character.

I picked her (yes, HER) because she's using plain old karate, which is awesome. Unlike Ryu/Ken, her moveset is based on short range punch and kick only, no fireball. She's a hard character to play because of that. Why did I picked such a hard character? Because playing mainstream character like Ryu/Ken is really boring, everbody plays them.

After watching some youtube videos, practicing, and another countless embarassing defeat, I finally managed to play her well. Not great, but at least I can defeat CPU ! Well, I still have a long way to go. Now to defeat those blasted grappler...

This is my favorite move

Ouch...