If you visit my living room (cookies are available), you will hear “HADOOOKEN, HADOOOKEN, HADOOOKEN” and “'DOKEN 'DOKEN 'DOKEN”* coming from my television box. It might be an alarming string of nonsense to an outsider, but for a Street Fighter II fan, it means all is right in the world.
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix has caused me a lot of pain because I've written a lot about it and been forced to type its impossibly long name over and over. Certain aspects about the game also irritate hardcore Street Fighter II scholars and it make me feel inadequate because I really enjoy the game. Am I not the Street Fighter II ninja I once thought I was?
No. No, it's the anal fans who are wrong. I can understand why someone might be upset at the “rebalanced” Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix if they're at all interested in tourney fighting; tweaks and twocks to games as in-depth as Super Street Fighter II Turbo are not taken lightly. They often spur eruptions and it takes some time for the ground to settle and cool again.
In the meantime, the rest of us can sit back and enjoy a great fighting game redone with bitchin' artwork by Udon Studios. I like Udon a lot, but it might be bias because they're based in Toronto and tend to slip little references to the city once in a while. I don't know what the bus driver's reaction was when he picked up every Street Fighter character, but given the general attitude of TTC drivers, he was probably irate to some degree.
*This is Ken.
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