If you look at my collection you will notice that I'm a huge SF fan! I've played every SF game except for the very first one (but I will soon because it's coming for PSP, woohoo!) So you probably think I'll be totally bias with this review, but you're wrong. First The Good: The fact that I was playing SFA on the train this morning and it ain't a emulator made me feel all warm inside. Everything from the console version is here plus extra modes and characters. The Variable mode, were you can switch between two characters on the fly ala Marvel vs Capcom is brilliant! They included the great World Tour mode from the original and a edit character mode. The VS 100 Kumite is fun as hell and they also brought over the Dramatic Battle Mode. As you can see there are a ton of different modes and I haven't even listed them all, not to mention the cast of characters, so the reply value is endless. The graphics are still excellently animated 2D sprites and all the great sound and moves are here...
The Bad: ...speaking of moves: the controls are extremly frustrating on the PSP. I first noticed it with Dark Stalkers but it is in your face this time on SFA. I am a very experianced SF player and I have never had so much trouble pulling off moves before. It was so bad that I couldn't even perform a Shouryuken (dragon punch) on the right side. You can go into the controller option menu to assign certain special moves to one button but that seems so cheap to me but I had no choice. This is one flaw that really hurts the gameplay of an otherwise great fighting game!
Ugly: Jjjjjust ccccan't ppppull off Dragon pppunch! Urrrrrgh!!!
Final: SF fans buy this game but beware you may not be able to pull off your favorite moves.
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