Month: September 2018

Vulcano Rosso has endured in popularity from his original Street Fighter EX2+ appearance because of his high octane play-style and wild character design. Now that he’s out in Fighting EX Layer, the question becomes: how does he translate to ARIKA’s new battle engine?

Quite well, it would seem. For both returning and new players, PNDK&M have put together an excellent primer for the rekka character, demonstrating his unique fireball parry, ideal Gougi decks, and more. You don’t have to be a SFEX pro to ride with Rosso, you just have to love locking opponents down — and posing like a Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure character while doing it.

Source: PNDK&M

Melty Blood is an anime fighting game series started in 2002. It is, at the time of this writing, 2018, and Melty Blood is still worth talking about.

Based off a visual novel, this game’s legendary meme of having tournaments in bathrooms and parking lots makes it easy to forget to the lesson it holds: the series that started developer French Bread on the track to FGC reverence did so against all odds, and purely because of how good it is. It doesn’t matter when, where, or how — Melty Blood players will always play this game, and have a blast doing so.

So, why? Why did Melty Blood survive when so many other indie fighters of the early 2000s didn’t?

For those unaware of how Under Night In-Birth‘s spiritual prequel plays, novriltataki has put together an excellent intro to educate new players on the Melty Blood basics. With an active community and a reputation that precedes itself, there’s never a bad time to learn this FGC mainstay.

Melty Blood’s final version, Melty Blood Actress Again: Current Code, is available on Steam.

Source: novriltataki