The question you have to ask yourself is if that’s enough to buy again. It’s a simple, refined fighter with years of polish attached to it. It’s the same fighters you know and love, essentially in the same package you’ve bought countless times previously.
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If you’re a Street Fighter II fiend and you enjoy matches against friends, Ultra isn’t a bad release. The mode is as soulless and unengaging as the rest of the package. With a Joy-Con in each hand, you’re to perform different movements for punches, hadokens and the like, all as mindless Bison clones creep their way towards you in a near-featureless set of rooms. The first-person Way of the Hado mode is garbage. Again, it’s zero effort attached to the near-premium price tag of $60 AUD. The ability to swap between old- and new-school effects and sounds is appreciated, but that has to be done from a settings menu rather than with a simple button press, Halo: Anniversary-style. That’s perhaps fitting, as you do have the option to opt for compressed sound effects rather than crisp ones recorded for Street Fighter IV.
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Those HD characters do look great in TV mode but are weirdly compressed in handheld mode. The HD versions of the characters put to use were made in the HD Remix release and simply reused here - would it have been difficult to commission an artist to give the SFII HD treatment to other characters that have emerged in recent titles? Given the game has a pallet swap mode to do this type of thing with any available character, it shows just how little effort Capcom put into this release.
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Ultra Street Fighter II: The New Challengersis Capcom’s laziest cash grab yet.Įssentially a re-release of Super Street Fighter II HD Remix, which itself was a remake of Super Street Fighter II Turbo (which, of course, was based off the original), this new Switch release is an over-priced piece of shovelware, offering far less in the way of quality as Injustice 2, a fighter released within the same time frame.Įvil Ryu and Violent Ken are the only new additions to Street Fighter II‘s roster, essentially pallet swaps with a couple new moves attached.