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[Secret Character]

Release Date: May 26, 2017 (worldwide)
Platform: Nintendo Switch
Developer: Capcom
Pubilsher: Nintendo
Price: $39.99 (eShop and Retail)

What's Included
- Arcade Mode
- Versus Mode
- Online Mode
- Buddy Battle
- Training
- Way of the Hado
- Gallery
- Color Editor

Features
Two new fighters join the game! Evil Ryu and Violent Ken join the SSF2 roster. They have their own moveset and super moves.

You can play USFII with graphics from Super Street Fighter II: Turbo HD Remix or classic CPS2 sprites

With the Color Editor, you can make your characters looks as "interesting" as your mind wants.

Dramatic Battle makes its return as Buddy Battle! Take on computer controlled opponents with a friend.

Way of the Hado is a new motion-controlled mini game where you play as Ryu and fight off waves of soldiers until a final confrontation with the evil behind it all!

FAQ

- This is basically Super Street Fighter II Turbo, right?
Not quite. This game is missing a couple of features from Super Turbo that expert players might be looking for. There are no "Old" characters, speed is locked to Turbo1, and there have been some balance changes made. They have also added throw techs in lieu of throw softening.
- Balance changes? What has changed?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=t-mzYv2mx5o
- Akuma has less heath and stun than previous versions.
- When Vega (claw) loses his claw, he cannot recover it.
- Vega (claw) can now climb the wall on his stage.
- Scarlet Terror (Vega) is now single hit and does not juggle
- Zangief has had throw damage reduced
- Stored moves (Ochio, supers) are not possible anymore.
- Ochio loops have been removed
- Damage and stun values have been adjusted.
- What does Gallery Mode have in it?
Gallery mode is filled with images from Street Fighter II artbooks. Some of them have been brought over from Udon publishing, but some of them have not.
- Will this be coming out on *insert system here*?
Nobody knows yet. For the time being, this is a Switch exclusive.
- How is the netcode?
All reports that have come in say that the netcode is great.
- $40 for this..?
Some people won't mind spending $40 for some nostalgia, but for the competitive player, this won't really have legs.

Reviews

Metascore: 67

Eurogamer Score: Avoid

US Gamer Score:3/5

Destructoid Score: 7/10

Vooks' Score: pending testing of online servers

God is a Geek score 7/10

Press-Start Score: 4/10

Trusted Reviews Score: 4/5

Gaming-Age Score: C

CG Magazine Score: 8.5/10

Gamerreactor Score: 5/10

GameXplain Video review

GameKult Score: Bon (7/10)

Thanks to Seik for the thread title and SomewhatGroovy for compiling review scores!

 

[Seik]

Hahaha so my thread title passed it seems!

Will have my copy on Monday to get bodied online! :3

FC: 3191-4146-6047

 

[Secret Character]

Hahaha so my thread title passed it seems!

Will have my copy on Monday to get bodied online! :3

I thought it was funny enough.

 

[Colonel Mustard]

My FC is 2701-5566-8216 if someone wants an easy win online. I'm terrible!

 

[TheMoon]

How is Guile's Theme. I heard it goes with everything. Does it go with USFII?

 

[jluedtke]

Picking this up in a few minutes, despite the high price tag. GCU brought it down to $32, which is still overpriced, but...I love me some Street Fighter.

 

[L Thammy]

How is Guile's Theme. I heard it goes with everything. Does it go with USFII?

Inferior to Balrog's theme as it has always been

Evil Ryu and Violent Ken have no classic themes, right?

 

[SomewhatGroovy]

Thanks for thread, SC.

Played a few more games online and it works as well as you would expect. Also surprised I won a few matches playing with joycon sideways but I think I'm going to bite for an 8bitdo pro.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Welcome to USA

 

[The Omega Man]

Will this game be on the eshop or is it a retail release only?

 

[Zalman]

I've been enjoying this. Love having SF2 in handheld form.

 

[El Pescado]

Went to GameStop to pick this up on my way to work and there was a guy that set his Switch up on their counter and was challenging people as they came in. The one guy who played with him who said he was an "old school gamer" while I was there was blown away by the whole thing. He actually walked away super impressed by the Switch after saying he had gone from NES to PSX to PS3 to XBO.

 

[SomewhatGroovy]

Will this game be on the eshop or is it a retail release only?

it's been up on eShop for few hrs

 

[The Hermit]

Can't wait to go home and download this.

Believe or not this was the game that sold me the Switch 🤗

 

[Neff]

If this cost slightly less and the Hori stick was out, it'd be a fantastic purchase.

Spoiler

So in a couple of months, it'll be a fantastic purchase.

 

[BFIB]

Hard to be a family man when you are glued to your switch.

 

[molnizzle]

Will this game be on the eshop or is it a retail release only?

All Switch games are available on the eShop.

 

[The Omega Man]

it's been up on eShop for few hrs

All Switch games are available on the eShop.

Great thanks, I checked this morning and didn't see it

 

[sergioalb64]

All Switch games are available on the eShop.

Sorry to be OT but, Skylanders? Is it in eShop? I really don't recall.

 

[joffocakes]

I'm enjoying it so far but the presentation outside of the game itself is pretty underwhelming. There's not too much to the online fights either; lobbies are two-player only and there aren't many options to tinker with.

I don't know how close the balance is to Super Turbo but a decent number (more than half) of my online opponents have switched to Akuma after a loss. I had a lot of difficulty getting in as 'gief but that was down to my own lack of patience too. Suffered a few perfects.

The Lite mode implementation is better than SFIV on 3DS. On 3DS Guile could immediately throw a Sonic Boom at a button press and immediately follow it with a flash kick; no charge required. Playing online was a never-ending mess of impenetrable Guile. In USFII you tap the button you've assigned to a Charge move and you'll then automatically start holding the appropriate charge (down or downback) for 60 frames before performing the move. If you're already charging it'll perform the move instantly (or charge for the remaining time if you weren't quite there).

It does still have issues since things like Zangief's Super can be assigned to a button and it's a move without a whiff animation so it will only come out when the opponent is in range to be grabbed by it. You can continue blocking as you mash the Super's button while your opponent attacks and, if they leave a gap in their offence, you'll just snatch 'em up. If they've pushed themselves too far back to be grabbed? You'll do nothing and you'll still have that full bar of Super.

That stuff was already in Super Turbo anyway but with Lite mode you don't need the wildly accurate execution to pull it off. You could leave that button on Autofire the entire match and it wouldn't hamper your play but you'll occasionally land seemingly psychic Supers.

You can filter out Lite mode users, of course, if you set your controls to Pro.

Oh, and the JoyCon's non-dpad dpad has been great. I can do Spinning Pile Drivers from standing with no problems, which is something I couldn't do on SNES (I dunno if I've gotten better or if they've made it easier?). I've yet to try the sideways JoyCon half, which is how I imagine it'll be mostly played, but I've never been too good with analogue in 2D fighters.

 

[TheMoon]

I've been enjoying this. Love having SF2 in handheld form.

my three(?) VC versions of SNES SFII on N3DS are looking at you funny

 

[Hansel?]

Sweet a third thread for people to complain about the price...

Going to pick my copy up right now... I will never not be hyped as fck for Street Fighter II

 

[Jaded Alyx]

lobbies are two-player only

While that's odd, it's worth nothing that SFV lobbies were the same when it launched.

 

[Tyraniboah]

I'm looking forward to seeing how GAF likes this. Obviously we all feel like the price is high, however I just want to have fun with the system. Will probably grab it this weekend

 

[Link_enfant]

my three(?) VC versions of SNES SFII on N3DS are looking at you funny

Two; The World Warrior wasn't released on N3DS eShop, it only got Turbo, Super and Alpha 2
Although I enjoy having and playing them that way, they're not really worth the comparison.

 

[Sadist]

When it hits 20 bucks I'm in

 

[The Hermit]

my three(?) VC versions of SNES SFII on N3DS are looking at you funny

Can you play VS in any of them? 😁

 

[Feeroper]

Picked mine up today at lunch! So good! Having the ability to bring this game with me on the go, set it down and bust out the 2 joy cons for an unexpected match with a friend while at work is priceless! We ended up with a bunch of people in the meeting room who heard the SFII music as they walked by popping in to see what was going on and a mini tournament ensued. So much fun and a nice release for everyone to relax on a Friday during a particularly stressful time at work.

I felt like I was in a Switch commercial.

 

[Lyte Edge]

If anyone wants to play, add me!

SW-4202-9640-1246

 

[Lyte Edge]

While that's odd, it's worth nothing that SFV lobbies were the same when it launched.

I'm not expecting this to be updated, but it would be nice. None of the Capcom fighters released on previous Nintendo systems had lobbies larger than two people, either.

 

[TheMoon]

Can you play VS in any of them? 😁

Every time I play it's VS my own incompetence.

 

[Jazzem]

How're you guys finding the AI in the arcade mode on this? I'm always shocked when playing HD Remix how absurdly difficult it is on that, even on easy <_<

 

[Mellahan]

Anyone making due with the directional buttons in portable mode? How is it in lieu of a dpad?

 

[joffocakes]

Anyone making due with the directional buttons in portable mode? How is it in lieu of a dpad?

Very, very good. Far better than the 360's dpad (which I endured for about 1000 hours of Street Fighter IV) and maybe sliiiightly better than Vita for me (I struggled facing left in SFA3 Max on there).

 

[The Hermit]

How're you guys finding the AI in the arcade mode on this? I'm always shocked when playing HD Remix how absurdly difficult it is on that, even on easy <_<

ST AI was very hard.

There is an easy mode in this one though

Spoiler

play as E.Ryu or V.Ken

 

[Jazzem]

ST AI was very hard.

There is an easy mode in this one though

Spoiler

play as E.Ryu or V.Ken

Ha, I don't doubt that

Still, wish we could marry Super Turbo mechanics with AI difficulty on the level of 4-6 stars in the SNES+Mega Drive conversions of Vanilla/Turbo. Actually, I remember the GBA version of ST being fairly reasonable for AI, even with some hilariously out of sync win quotes due to JP/US boss name confusion:

 

[ksamedi]

I had a blast today in the office with SF2. I feel like Im some kind of Swith marketing employee. Anyway, lots of people gathered around to have a go at me (im pretty good at sf2) even people who usually do not game.

 

[RedAssedApe]

i don't like the remixed tunes at all.

 

[N Coward Parody]

I'm very much enjoying this game.

Feel free to add me:

SW-2064-8723-7615

 

[Neff]

How're you guys finding the AI in the arcade mode on this? I'm always shocked when playing HD Remix how absurdly difficult it is on that, even on easy <_<

Way easier. Beat arcade mode on my first try (4/8 by default) and got lots of perfects.

 

[TheMagician]

This guy just came up against my girlfriend. That user name...

 

[kingbean]

So I bought a JPN copy on the eshop because I still had money on that account and I can't seem to download it on my USA account unlike all the other games I've bought on my JPN account.

Sucks.

 

[Jeff-DSA]

Gonna pick it up in a few minutes. My favorite Street Fighter era is still the SFII era.

 

[L Thammy]

This guy just came up against my girlfriend. That user name...

Maybe they're big on Egyptian mythology? Cross your fingers.

 

[Neff]

So I bought a JPN copy on the eshop because I still had money on that account and I can't seem to download it on my USA account unlike all the other games I've bought on my JPN account.

Sucks.

That's weird because I can confirm that the JP version works with a UK account.

 

[MetalSlug]

I thought this would be easy on the Switch, but keep getting destroyed online :|

Dangerous playing this on handheld mode. Rage would cause me to snap the Switch.

 

[Piscus]

Hahaha, is "salt" going to be in every Switch game OT?

 

[kingbean]

That's weird because I can confirm that the JP version works with a UK account.

It works, I just can't download the USA eshop copy of the game with english language instead of japanese.

 

[Numb]

Hahaha, is "salt" going to be in every Switch game OT?

ST salt is that top tier salt

 

[Secret Character]

ST salt is that top tier salt

ST salt has been going strong for 20+ years. More salt has been harvested from this game alone than probably any other game.