Month: June 2018

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Mikado Arcade’s Street Fighter Carnival 11 continues with Fight Fever, Virtua Fighter 3tb

Street Fighter Carnival 11 is underway! Mikado Arcade’s currently-ongoing multi-game tournament series runs a wide variety of classic (and sometimes, obscure) arcade titles. This series just started, so if you want to start from the beginning, go here!

Today, we definitely have both classic and obscure on display:

Obscure: Developed in 1994 by South Korean based Viccom, Fight Fever is a strange (but entertaining) zoning-heavy Street Fighter clone published by SNK, and largely forgotten by time. There’s also an American basketball-player-turned-fighter character is named “Magic Dunker,” an amazing fact that I will never stop bringing up.

And for classics, returning to the Mikado lineup is Virtua Fighter 3tb. It’s no surprise: Mikado recently ran the Virtua Fighter 3tb World Cup 2018 major, which you can see the VOD for here. VF3tb reigns supreme at Mikado and doesn’t show any signs of slowing down anytime soon.

You can follow the action of SFC11 by subscribing to Mikado’s official YouTube channel. For the night owls in the US, you can even try to catch them when they livestream.

Source: Mikado Arcade

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The pros and cons of Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2’s premier assassin, Millia Rage

A longstanding figure in the Guilty Gear series, Millia Rage is popular for her unconventional weapon and deadly rushdown. Millia shapes her hair to craft her attacks in Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2, and she has been one of the stronger characters in the Xrd games. It’s not easy to effectively use Millia, but if you’ve been curious about trying her out, this new video from Apolo Volturi will get you started.

As in his previous videos, Apolo begins by going over Millia’s normal attacks, many of which work as very good anti-airs. Millia is great at both jumping in on her opponent as well as countering air approaches. That 6K overhead avoids lows and is the doom of many cornered players. The footage shows a few situations where it’s good to anti-air. Of course, Millia’s real strength lies in converting hits into knockdowns which allow her to set up her powerful okizeme game. The discs let her get creative with an overhead/low mix-up, go into cross-ups, or throw the opponent for another combo.

Millia is not without obvious weaknesses, though. She’s one of the most fragile characters in the game in terms of health, and she doesn’t have any real defensive options other than what is commonly available through the system mechanics.

If you’re looking to pick up another character, check out this Ky Kiske character overview instead.

Source: Apolo Volturi