Author: Crow_Spaceboy

The balancing act between authenticity and efficiency.

The prince of Final Fantasy XV has been mostly well-received by players in Tekken 7. Whether it’s his ease of use or just the visceral thrill of punishing whiffs from full screen, Noctis seems to have made the translation from RPG to the fighting game genre better than predicted. (Having the game’s easiest and most consistent Death Fist punishment tool certainly doesn’t hurt, either.)

Unfortunately, one RPG element didn’t make the translation over to fighting games so smoothly — his damage. More specifically, the FFXV hit-spark introduced with Noctis’s release.

Bandai Namco had the best intentions when it made this hit-spark. This equipable damage-effect modifier shows the exact value of the damage dealt every time you hit an opponent, just like in Final Fantasy. They even went the extra mile made it give a “9999” value when you win the round with Noctis’s Rage Art — an obvious nod to Final Fantasy‘s maxed-out attacks.

Unfortunately, it’s not the idea that’s the problem, but the implementation. Instead of just displaying the “9999” number for laughs, Bandai Namco actually made the last hit of Noctis’ Rage Art do 9999 damage, in the event that the last hit would have killed anyway. This wouldn’t be a problem normally, but now that Tekken has three-meter using characters (Eliza, Geese, Akuma), this essentially means Noctis can’t win a round with a Rage Art without giving these characters full super meter! Whoops.

You could make the argument that this is a balancing tool for these match-ups, since Noctis’s teleporting f+2 effectively negates projectiles. This argument holds exactly as much water as how much you believe linear fireballs are the central part of these characters’ neutral game in the sidestep-heavy world of Tekken. The simpler explanation is that Bandai Namco just didn’t keep this in mind when it designed the critical hit nod — at the time of this writing, there’s been no word from Bandai Namco on how intentional this side effect is.

In the meantime, if you’re playing Noctis, it’s probably advisable to not combo into Rage Art in these match-ups. Thank god your Rage Drive is good, huh?

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“…that was a 15-second combo.”

NorCal Regionals 2018 has come and gone, and with its closing we have a new set of top tier Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition memories highlighted by Capcom Fighters.

Predictably, Tokido was a central star for more than few of these moments — as you would expect from the eventual tournament winner. But NCR 2018 was a tournament of champions tested, controversies, and close calls. Check out the video above to see just a few of the absurd comebacks and tournament-defining matches that made NCR2018 so great.

Source: Capcom Fighters

Street Fighter Carnival X is Mikado Arcade’s currently-ongoing multi-game tournament series for a wide variety of classic (and sometimes, obscure) arcade titles. To see the beginning of these high-level Japanese tournaments, go here!

Today’s main draw is a special Art of Fighting 3 event. For those that don’t know, this SNK fighter has an Easter egg where each character gets access to their Desperation Move at full health on their canonical birthday. You’ll have to watch the tournament o see if the birthday girl, Kasumi Todoh,made the most of her gift!

And the other tournament seems to be Mikado Arcade’s favorite 3D game this season, Virtua Fighter 3: Team Battle.

You can follow the action of SFCX 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

Welcome back, West City Warriors! Yesterday we covered the FGC’s early efforts in dissecting Bardock. Today, let’s roundup the other half of Dragon Ball FighterZ‘s DLC: the Legendary Super Saiyan, Broly.

rooflemonger starts us off with some beginner combos, and a PSA about Broly’s auto-combo.

desk, of course, found plenty of ways to push the mighty Broly to 100% combos.

Dogura’s Broly is only going to get stronger as time goes on, as he works toward his goal.

A large part of Broly’s current meta is setting up his unblock-able. Johnny Joestar demonstrates an example of this terrifying power below.

And lastly, sikshot gaming shows us what to do versus Broly on defense. If you even survive that long…

Thanks to everyone that has Spirit Bomb’d a tip in! If you see something that you think is worth sharing, be sure to lend us your energy here.

Sources: desk; XusesGB; rooflemonger; sikshot gaming; Johnny Joestar

Welcome back, West City Warriors! We can’t let you go into the weekend without some new videos for the latest DLC characters in Dragon Ball FighterZ. While a large source of new content on the net has obviously been the insanely strong Broly, let’s see first what science has discovered for Bardock:

Let’s start with some basics — NurseLee‘s Bardock combos are effective and damaging, making this video an excellent foundation for beginners to build from.

And for learning the basics of his tool kit, let’s turn to TGN Anime‘s move-set breakdown.

desk‘s combos for Bardock as choreographed and exciting as anything else this celebrity creator has put out.

Persona Entertainment has a number of 100% combos to show off for Goku’s dad.

And finally, let’s look at a bit of tech: RanserSSF4 shows how a single, simple reset can easily kill even if you started with 0 bars.

Thanks to everyone that has Spirit Bomb’d a tip in! If you see something that you think is worth sharing, be sure to lend us your energy here.

Sources: NurseLee; desk; Persona Entertainment; TGN Anime; RanserSSF4

Street Fighter Carnival X is Mikado Arcade’s currently-ongoing multi-game tournament series for a wide variety of classic (and sometimes, obscure) arcade titles. To see the beginning of these high-level Japanese tournaments, go here!

This week, Mikado Arcade is bringing you 3 very different FGC flavors. For starters, we have the grounded 2D footsies of the indie fighter Koihime Enbu…

Some 3D action from Sega’s Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown…

And finally, the juggle and air-reset heavy experience of Project Justice: Rival Schools 2.

You can follow the action of SFCX 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