Author: Crow_Spaceboy

One of the most important things a developer can do is demonstrate that they know how their own game is played. This shouldn’t seem like a big deal, but if the spokesperson for a project can’t clearly explain gameplay, it’s hard to be interested in playing, you know?

That’s why Lunar Hare Studio’s character tutorial for their first fighting game project, Earth Romancer, was a pleasant surprise to me:

Earth Romancer manages to stand out in the heavily saturated indie smash-clone market by expanding its gameplay vocabulary beyond what’s typical of the genre. As Palante’s moveset shows, he’s able to make use of P-links, Kara Cancels, Float Cancels, and a wide variety of zoning and okizeme pressure. Whatever you may think the blatant Greed Sever rip-off, it’s clear that an obsession for slick system mechanics is what really inspires this studio the most.

If the above game-play interested you at all, you can try an alpha demo of their game right now.

Source: Lunar Hare Studios

One of the most important things a developer can do is demonstrate that they know how their own game is played. This shouldn’t seem like a big deal, but if the spokesperson for a project can’t clearly explain gameplay, it’s hard to be interested in playing, you know?

That’s why Lunar Hare Studio’s character tutorial for their first fighting game project, Earth Romancer, was a pleasant surprise to me:

Earth Romancer manages to stand out in the heavily saturated indie smash-clone market by expanding its gameplay vocabulary beyond what’s typical of the genre. As Palante’s moveset shows, he’s able to make use of P-links, Kara Cancels, Float Cancels, and a wide variety of zoning and okizeme pressure. Whatever you may think the blatant Greed Sever rip-off, it’s clear that an obsession for slick system mechanics is what really inspires this studio the most.

If the above game-play interested you at all, you can try an alpha demo of their game right now.

Source: Lunar Hare Studios

cutcc returns with more of his “QuickNotes” series for Tekken 7! This series is designed to lay out the fundamentals of a Tekken character in as compact a video as possible. Today’s study is the game’s most excellent character, Lee Chaolan.

While he is easily one of the game’s toughest characters to play, Lee makes the effort worthwhile by sporting excellent pokes and powerful wall carry. Lee’s dominance of the mid-range can quickly frustrate the opponent to death, if his surprisingly strong punish game doesn’t do it first.

Source: cutcc

Welcome, West City citizens! It’s a new week and we have a ton of Dragon Ball FighterZ videos lined up for you to scrutinize in the lab. You know the drill — let’s jump in and see what the FGC has made today:

rooflemonger starts us off with an important discussion about “turns” in DBFZ.

Raf Tube gives us a strong level 1 Sparking touch-of-death combo for Android 16.

Multi-game combo video maker y.xiao covers various nuanced combos for Android 18.

We had a number of players submitting Teen Gohan videos this week! Muramishi starts with a general combo video…

… Sword shares some mid/low 50/50s…

… tbcboocock demonstrates his safety during block strings…

And rawkid360 shows off some of ways Teen Gohan can condition in neutral.

And closing us out today is dora bang’s Piccolo set-play concepts.

As always, if you see anything worth sharing, let us know by submitting a tip for our next roundup. Thanks everyone!

Sources: rooflemonger; y.xiao; Raf Tube; Sword; Muramishi; rawkid360; tbcboocock; dora bang

Crouching states work differently in the 3D genre than what 2D players are likely used to. When crouching, you not only get access to new moves, but you also get a completely different set of moves while you’re rising from the crouching to standing state. On top of that, there’s various ways to cancel the crouching state, and those methods tend to differ a little bit between different 3D fighters.

Because of this, there are lots of punishment opportunities that slip right by new 3D players. There are many different types of moves that force you into a crouching state on block or hit, which limits what you can do afterwards. That does not mean these moves are safe, though — and if you know your character’s options from crouch, you can make better decisions as you encounter new forced crouch situations.

Source: Scallywag 93

exceL Esports’s Brian “xLBrian” Thomson is on the shortlist of sponsored Menat pros for Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition. The resource-reliant, highly polarized offensive move-set of Menat might makes her too much of a difficult and risky choice for most tournament players.

But if you stick with her, the high damage rewards of her combos speak for themselves. If you found xLBrian’s combo tutorial useful, you might also be interested exceL’s larger guide to controlling and winning with Menat.

Source: exceL Esports

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 tournament is 1993’s Fatal Fury Special. This SNK classic combines old-school footsies with its innovative 2-lane movement system, years before Virtua Fighter found its own 3D plane.

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

With any character in Tekken 7, it can be difficult to maximize combo damage off of a balcony break. There’s a lot of factors to take in: whether you’ve used your screw attack already, how far away from the wall you were when you hit, etc.

And if you choose to play as Tekken’s flashy Lee Chaolan, all of this is compounded by the difficult execution the character naturally possess. Lee specialist TZMurakumo‘s latest guide tries to simplify the decision-making process — so that regardless of where you are in the combo, your damage will always be excellent.

Source: TZMurakumo