Super Street Fighter IV
I got this game on pre-order with the dhalsim t-shirt and have been playing with some of the new characters.
Have to say I like a lot of the new characters, but the changes to some of the existing characters seem to break them. Cammy was one of my main characters before super and she just doesn’t do the damage she did before.
Also the whole pace of the game feels weird with some characters. eg: hitting cammy’s links online seems to be harder than hitting juri’s links online.
Slower characters really struggle aswell and seem to end up getting crossed up a lot.
Guile, Bison & Chun-li seem really strong in super.
Balrog is still quite strong as he doesn’t seem to have changed much.
Some of the new moves seem to change the game completely and I think moves where players can go from one side of the screen mid air to the other diagonally messes the game up slightly as you get people spamming these moves (eg: Adon & Guy).
One character who reminds me of zangief’s amazing grapple power, health and strength is T-Hawk with added air moves, he’s pretty hard to predict and often punishes with his grabs (which seem to come from nowhere).
When I got the game the first new character I tried was Dudley as I loved him on 3S but after playing online over the weekend I found him to be limited and sometimes slow. I moved onto Ibuki (another 3S char) who I think has massive potential due to the damage and combos.
Over the weekend I tried most of the characters including guile who seems amazingly strong now.
The most fun to play at the moment seems to be Juri as she has some cheeky moves and can bait everything including her ultra2. I still haven’t got used to her ultra1 but I think some players in japan will get hold of her and make some amazing combo’s from her ultra1.
