/vr/ - Retro Games

If we go by originality alone, this game would be one of the bests action sidescroller ever made.

Once you've played enough action games, you should realize that a lot of ideas get repeated between games, the way the character moves, the enemy and boss patterns, the level design, even the gimmicks. Good examples of that being for instance in SHMUPs "fly around the boss" pattern, or in beat em ups "jump kick is a safe move against most things but it's a long and boring way to play the game", or in games withs swords "enemies are weak to jump slashes to the head", etc as for stage gimmicks, conveyor belts, anti-gravity mechanics, springs or other devices to make the player jump, etc that's for the obvious but even things like enemy and bosses patterns tend to re-use a lot and plenty of games have methods to clear a boss that just feel like "been there, done that, a thousand times in a thousand games".

This is not the case in SF2010. From the protagonist movement, his means of attack, all the enemies patterns, and even the structures of the stages themselve, almost everything feels completely original and the game constantly has the player learn new rules, moves and patterns that feel like nothing else that has ever been done.

The only real drawback would be the length of animation which sometimes creates a delay between the moment the button is pressed and the moment the action occurs, although that too is unlike other games of the time since it's something more common in later generations.

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>>6850534

The real street fighter game...