Month: July 2018

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Enjoy some Japanese BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle action from the YOSHIMOTO Gaming Pro selection competiton

Late last moth, we brought you a tier list from Kubo, a top Japanese Under Night In-Birth and Persona 4 Arena Ultimax player, who some are already describing as “the best BBTAG player in Japan.” Now you can get a taste of some international action, as some of Japan’s finest from multiple Arc System Works titles couldn’t escape from Crossing Fate at the YOSHIMOTO Gaming Pro selection competition. This event featured Kubo, rocking his deadly team of Ruby Rose and Hyde Kido, as well as notable fighters ROW, Senaru, Damosu, Koichi, Ho-Chan, KoujiKOG, ZackyWild, Minami, Hifumi, Tarou, Yukia, Jyudou and many more.

With ASW’s tag team crossover title recently supplanting Super Smash Bros. for Wii U as currently the fifth-largest game at Evo 2018, it’s very likely that we could see a lot of these faces battling in Las Vegas this August. In fact, the winner of this event received a sponsorship to Evo courtesy of YOSHIMOTO Gaming. You can see the full tournament — which clocks in at around four-and-a-half hours in total — below. Uploader HYDEGaming1 has included timestamps for each match for your convenience, while commentator Shirtaker has provided us with the names of each player, and a list of the individual match-ups, making it extremely easy to find your favorite players quickly.

What are your thoughts on the level of competition and team compositions compared to some of the American play we’ve seen at Northwest Majors and CEO recently? Sound off with your thoughts in the comments section.

Source: HYDEGaming1 (YouTube)

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Street Fighter Carnival 11 continues with Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness, Double Dragon tournaments

Street Fighter Carnival 11 is Mikado Arcade’s currently-ongoing, month-long, multi-game tournament series for a wide variety of classic (and sometimes, obscure) arcade titles. This series is well under way, so start from the beginning if you want to catch up!

Today’s entry is the Technōs Japan-developed Double Dragon fighting game from 1995, whose rights are now owned by none other then Arc System Works. Do you think the only reason they got the rights to it is because it has double jumps and air blocking?

After that is Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness, a criminally underrated and underutilized title from Capcom. This 2D fighter has incredible mobility and full-screen footsies, and you can read more about its game-play over on the SRK Wiki.

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