Month: October 2018

Thrill Kill sits in an odd, isolated place in gaming history. Created by Paradox Development and (almost) published by Virgin Interactive, this arena fighting game was set to make waves on the original PlayStation both for its unusual amounts of sex and hyper-violence (for 1998, mind you) and for its — at the time — innovative 4-player combat system. Two weeks prior to the game release, however, EA puchased Virgin and killed the project, saying they would never “publish such a senselessly violent game”.

Since the game was cancelled so close to release, copies of the game had already made it out into the world in one way or another, despite EA’s best efforts. 20 years later, NRS-focused YouTuber TONY-T pays tribute to what could have been, exploring the ruthless and long juggles possible in Thrill Kill‘s combat system. Coincidentally, Thrill Kill’s work didn’t entirely go to waste — this exact engine was later re-purposed for three different Activision published games: Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style and X-Men: Mutant Academy 1 and 2.

Source: TONY-T

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Before you can walk, you have to crawl. And before you can beat competent players in Tekken 7, you have to know how to deal with the silliest gimmicks under the sun. This may be a frustrating fact and you may wonder why you have to learn to deal with “bad” strategies like, say, FF+4>Backlash from OnlineHwoarang#9178, but the truth is that there’s fundamental lessons buried into these “Scrubkiller” strategies about how Tekken works at all levels of play.

Be it learning string animations or manipulating freeze frames in armor, the lessons that you learn to beat the low-level strategies in today’s video tutorial from Scallywag 93 are lessons that you’ll use to solve several problems in Tekken moving forward. Get out your notebooks — it’s time to learn.

Source: Scallywag 93

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Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition‘s “V-System”, especially its V-Triggers, is a central aspect to the game. A character’s V-Triggers can define how they play and how strong they are in the meta.

In this new video, VesperArcade takes a look at the game’s V-Triggers and discusses what they’d like to see changed from this season, coming into the next. The basic gist of it is that they want more variety: there are some characters who were definitely favored with powerful Triggers, while others don’t really have a good V-Trigger at all.

Source: VesperArcade

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One of the notable absences from the SoulCalibur VI Network Test was the dread pirate Cervantes. Though there have been a few opportunities to see footage of the sword dual-wielding fighter, currently, we can only use uploaded footage to study up on this character. If you’re a Cervantes main or simply interested in what’s new for him, check out the following media to get familiar with his tools.

For anyone who’s played Cervantes before, they should feel right at home with his SoulCalibur VI iteration, as he still makes great use of his Dread Charge stance and teleports. The teleport doesn’t have much invulnerability, but Cervantes can cancel Dread Charge or use Dread Charge Dash. He also has very strong slide moves, Ab and Ba. Instant Geo Da Ray returns as well, rewarding those who practice execution.

docvizzo compiled a move analysis video below showcasing what’s changed for the pirate. He makes some comparisons to the SoulCalibur V version of Cervantes as well.

Jovian Chan posted a few informative tweets about Cervantes (LH is Lethal Hit):

Some Cervantes Stuff:
1) B2 – LH Activates when you use gun shots 12 times (on hit)
2) 2A+B – LH Counter Hit
3) 22K – LH Successful Auto GI
4) 22B – LH Side/back hit
5) In EN, The Baron is called Dread Storm
6) Notable new moves are A6 and kA #SoulCaliburVI pic.twitter.com/3mWVjiR266

— Jovian Chan @SEAM (@jovywithyou) October 8, 2018

So since everyone's been asking, here you go:

Cervantes's 66_99_33A+G throw is an unbreakable throw that does 0 damage, pushes opponent forward, giving him advantage and possibly other stuff. #SoulCaliburVI pic.twitter.com/6MfT0hPnpQ

— Jovian Chan @SEAM (@jovywithyou) October 8, 2018

It’s not ideal, but Bigbrook recorded camera videos of Cervantes’ move list and a match while at Comic Con:

For more on the game, read up on Shoryuken’s SoulCalibur VI Network Test impressions.

Sources: docvizzo; Jovian Chan; Bigbrook

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