Category: Fighting Games

Smashers have a thing for making high-quality documentaries. There’s the big daddy of Super Smash Bros. docs with The Smash Brothers, the soon to be released Metagame, a planned Brawl documentary, and now you have a documentary for the little guys of the Smash community: Smash Scenes. It’s a new documentary series where film-makers Toggle and GosuJasu travel to various regions around the world to learn more about their particular area and its Smash history.

In the trailer, there are interviews with players from South Korea, Hawaii, and Santa Barbara–talking about their various experiences playing Smash and interacting with their local community. Usually, most documentaries about Smash focuses on the top level of play, so this series acts a refreshing change of pace, focusing on the average player and their individual experiences on why they play Smash. The first episode is set to release a week from today, so keep your eyes on the GosuJasu YouTube channel to see the finished product.

Source: GosuJasu

With his impressive performance at Evo 2016–being the only American player to make it into top 8–Joe “LI Joe” Ciaramelli has become something of a folk hero in the fighting game community. Despite this however, he has yet to take advantage of any opportunities his Evo performance might have opened towards going pro.

BornFree recently caught up with LI Joe at Defend the North where they got to talk about a number of topics; on not going pro, Joe states that he isn’t really ready to quit his current job and play fighting games as a full time career. The fighting game community “isn’t there yet,” at least in terms of playing at a pro level being a viable career option. However, he doesn’t discount the possibility of doing so further down the line.

In addition to this, he also talks about playing at live on ESPN at Evo and also shares his thoughts on the final DLC character for Street Fighter V: Urien, who was his main back in Street Fighter III 3rd Strike.

Source: BornFree

VesperArcade continues  his series of video guides to completing Street Fighter V’s Survival Mode on Hard difficulty–this time focusing on the speedy kunoichi Ibuki, considered by VesperArcade to be a tougher run through the mode, due to her low (900 HP) health. Check out his tips for surviving those grueling 50 fights in the video below.

Of course, with haunts promising easy ways to get those costume colors with tomorrow’s update, the motivation to endure Survival Mode is lessened–but there’s still Fight Money and PSN trophies to be earned by taking it on.

Check out VesperArcade’s Survival Mode tips for Alex and Balrog here.

Source: VesperArcade

Daisuke Ishiwatari, the man behind the Guilty Gear series, is an artist of many talents. More than just a game designer: he illustrates, and creates the characters, story, and music.

toco toco tv provides an up-close look at the Arc System Works game director, and recounts his twenty years of work. An ardent fan of fighting games in his youth, Ishiwatari created his own series with unique features, inspired by manga and anime.

The interview also includes Toshimichi Mori, the director of the BlazBlue series.

For another in-depth interview with the Arc System works duo, read the Forbes feature on the creators.

Source: toco toco tv; via Alex Zabava

The man isn’t technically out, yet people are discovering new tech for the master of the Aegis Reflector. Not only does Urien have a plethora of oki setups off of his heavy punch headbutt, but his standing heavy kick shrinks his grab box by 50%, making it easy to bait a wake-up throw and then punish with a big combo.

This tech works on all wake-up grabs and most command grabs, as shown in the video. The creator of the video Hatson calls this the “Secret Shimmy” and–as long as it doesn’t get changed before Urien’s official release–it looks like a great way to bait opponents into an unsafe wake-up option.

After demonstrating the Secret Shimmy, Hatson goes on to show several oki setups off of heavy headbutt. He also shows how Urien’s can beat wake-up jabs, delayed wake-up jabs, and back rolls. This is quite the extensive PSA for an unreleased character, showing just how powerful Urien may be when he graces Street Fighter V in the not too distant future.

Source: Hatson

When it comes to Street Fighter V, everyone knows exactly what is coming when your opponent picks Chun-Li. Instant Air Legs is one of her most powerful tools, and one of the most important parts of beating her is coming to terms with how to combat this powerful option.

Alex isn’t a character with the privilege of having an invincible anti-air like a shoryuken, so he has to work it out without that easy option. Luckily, FinchoMatic has figured out some ways Alex can deal with Instant Air Legs, which are detailed below.

Source: FinchoMatic