Interest in French Bread’s Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st] is slowly rekindling, as the latest version will soon come to consoles with new characters. However, the competition in Japan has never ceased, and there’s always some quality footage to find and enjoy watching high-level play.
Battle Arena Sega Club recently hosted OVER THE WORLD -continuation-, a tournament that’s a culmination of qualifiers happening since March 2017. Played in a 3v3 format, the participating teams display a good variety of characters. If you want to see a list of who’s participating, Japanese website Kakuge Checker has a list (Google Translate does the trick if you need it).
Are you coming back for UNIST? Let us know your thoughts on the tournament and what character you’re going to play!
Tekken 7 is all set to put an end to the grim Mishima legacy!
Tekken 7 is now officially available for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC! Here’s Bandai Namco’s official launch trailer, encouraging you to “Bring the Fight!”
If you want to learn more about what the game has to offer, check out the features overview video below!
We also have not one but two Tekken 7 reviews to help you decide if it’s a game you want to try out; read Crow_Spaceboy’s Tekken-veteran review here, while Trilby offers the perspective of a 3D-fighter newcomer here.
NurseLee is back, and he’s revisiting Ken’s knockdown pressure in Street Fighter V Season 2.
Ever the setup archaeologist, NurseLee has taken the changes to Ken’s Chinbuster target combo and Heavy Tatsu and turned them into lockdown monsters. These setups all survive after the most recent update, as confirmed by NurseLee himself in the comments:
So in this “New-Patch”, Season 2.5, Capcom so far didn’t make any adjustments on his Heavy Tatsumaki and fortunately just left it alone, which is great in my opinion.
As he notes, these are broken up into quick rise and back rise, the latter of which was something Ken had a lot more trouble dealing with previously.
The King of Fighters XIV’s Ralf does so much damage that, as Playergodaines shows, his opponents literately explode.
And it doesn’t require a lot of resources either, seen early on with his 50% mid screen 1 meter combo. This is largely because of the changes he received back in version 2.00, granting him several larger hitboxs and a newly cancelable c.LK. With 5 bars and a corner he gets a number of 950+ damage combos as well. Thanks to the latest health nerfs, that means there are now characters he can kill with one touch.
Two challengers have already failed to defeat the master of this dojo…
If you want to add some more Asian flair to your stage selection in Street Fighter V, you’re in luck–on PC, at least! You can download this great (and grim!) stage mod for free at monkeygigabuster’s DeviantArt page! It replaces either The Grid or the Temple of Ascension.
Xuses shows what the stage looks like in action in the video below. It looks like both Evil Ryu and Oni have fallen victim to the resident of this dojo… who could be that strong…?
The leader of a new Shadaloo (it seems) is already making a splash in Street Fighter V.
In the aftermath of Street Fighter V’s 30-hour update, Ed is now officially part of the roster! We already got a taste in the second CFN beta test, so let’s see what the community is up to with the Young Commander now.
Naturally, combo maestro desk is all over a new SFV fighter. Check out a little preview video (where not even a stray Sonic Boom can stop the beatdown), and then desk’s full Ed CMV treatment, full of the crazy combo shenanigans we’re used to:
But Urien has no patience for this upstart: see what happens when Ed’s Psycho Cannon V-Trigger meets the Aegis Reflector in this follow-up video, also from desk.
World Warrior offers this selection of day one combos:
CrossUPDP posted this video showcasing Ed’s max-damage combos:
How about some okizeme? Chariot explores some wakeup pressure options:
Ed oki off cr.hp: microwalk into ex fireball gives a meaty st.lk that you can convert pic.twitter.com/oEckHXoOpy
Want a closer look at Ed’s hitboxes? alb3530 provides this slow-mo breakdown for your reference:
Going back to the CFN beta days: if you’re interested in the matchup against F.A.N.G, or just want to see some in-game Ed action, check out this captured stream of F.A.N.G versus Ed. Amusing to see new Heavenly Kings taking each other down.
You may remember CKT-Fergus’s character guide that we covered a few months ago. If you liked that idea but need it in video form, the folks over at That Blasted Salami used this as a frame work for their latest character guide video!
Each character section is brief and to the point, summarizing their core tools and game plan. The description has time stamps for each character, so you can quickly jump in and check out someone you were interested in.
This new documentary will give us a closer look at some of the scene’s most prominent competitors.
If you missed its premiere in the after-show of Red Bull Kumite, you can now see the trailer for the next project from Red Bull Media House: The Art of Street Fighting.
Featuring Street Fighter V competitors such as ZOWIE|GamerBee (“In this game, it’s really easy to die.”), Qanba.Douyu|Xiao Hai (“I will kill everyone who stands in my way.”), RB|Luffy, Echo Fox|Tokido, and Twitch.Hx.CYG BST|Daigo Umehara (“I used to think victory would bring me everything, but I was wrong.”), The Art of Street Fighting will be released June 27, 2017 on Red Bull TV.
After a lengthy break, The Fighters Generation webmaster Frank Yagami is back to counting down his top 10 favorite fighting games, again, in no particular order. This time, Yagami takes a special look at the series he is perhaps known best for, given his reviews and myriad of match uploads: Tekken.
He’s a huge fan of the series since its initial installment, due to Namco’s penchant for creating a unique and diverse cast of characters, as well as continuously pushing the franchise foward in terms of animations, additional moves, and deeply complex mechanics. He notes that two titles from The King of the Iron Fist have made his list, with Tekken 5/Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection coming in at #6. After declaring it “The greatest experience I’ve ever had playing an arcade game, period,” due to living a few hours away from several outlets with thriving offline scenes–most notably Beachland Arcade–he praises the entry for coming at a time (2004-2005) when other fighting game developers didn’t have much going on in the way of new or memorable titles. He also brought up the innovative design choices of adding DualShock 2 ports to the cabinets, allowing players to bring their personal controllers from home to use, as well as being the first fighting game to use the card system that is now commonplace in Japanese Arcades, allowing players to keep track of their personal stats, as well as their customized characters. After finally touching upon Dark Resurrection‘s online component, as well as his little-known 1st-place victory at CEO 2010, Yagami moves on to an Honorable Mention that didn’t make his list: Tekken 6.
Though he praises the Bound System and the game’s detailed character models (that are even superior to its successor, Tekken Tag Tournament 2) he notes it missed the bar, due to the lack of a widespread arcade release in North America. Arcades were dying out in this country, and the cabinet being too expensive for most remaining arcade owners to afford–since it cost a whopping $10,000-$11,000.
Finally, Yagami moves on to the #5 title of his list, which is, of course, Tekken Tag Tournament 2. Though certainly an unforgiving game for newcomers, Yagami joyfully recalls the sheer amount of creativity the game allows in terms of combos, as well as the Tag System and massive roster size–though he admits he’s ready to return to 1V1 in Tekken 7.
You can catch the full video below–which is certainly a great watch for any and all Tekken fans, especially if you were around the community in those days.
You can check his other vlogs, which include Samurai Shodown 2 & Street Fighter Alpha 3, as well as Garou: Mark of the Wolves, here and here.
As we gear up for the release of Tekken 7, feel free to share some of your favorite Tekken memories and franchise entries in the comments below!
If there’s one breakout character from Nintendo’s upcoming ARMS, it has to be Twintelle. To say that the A-list actress has captured the hearts of the fans would be an understatement.
For those looking for more of Twintelle, Nintendo has just released a new trailer that’s all about her. The trailer below gives a glimpse of Twintelle in action, showing off various weapons, as well as her time-slowing sub-mechanic.
ARMS is set for a worldwide launch for Nintendo Switch on June 16. For those who can’t wait to get their hands on the game (and on Twintelle), the second “Global Testpunch” demo will run from June 2 to 4.
