ah, street fighter V. a game with such a large scope to the point where it even had a cinematic story mode, but ended up falling down a flight of stairs when it came out only to pick itself back up, dust itself off, and walk away in 2021. a game so big, it even was shafted into being unfun and for esports only. a game SO big, it also has the literal largest street fighter character to date so big that he covers half of the screen and can play football with your fireballs. a game with such giant risks pulled, they made a antagonist that was immediately irrelevant on the same exact picosecond he showed up, made the most divisive character who was immediately redeemed in anywhere else that isn't SFV, had a dan win a match in the capcom cup by chipping his oppotent to death, and they made seth hot. they also made M. bison hot in this game but i think that's just a me thing. remember that game? i do. all i remember is my friends showing me what ken masters looked like in the game. the only value i find in this game personally is that i think the artstyle is basically what street fighter looks like to me and the peak of the 3D artstyles for the series. fight me in this site's dedicated email, goodmorningshadaloocity@proton.me.
the years of 2016 - 2021 were a eventful period for street fighter fans around the world. 2016 was also eventful for other reasons but i assume you know of that. but in this period of time, capcom decided to be a little playful. a little witty in their own shadaloo-themed site. thus, three web games were released on different april fools in different years. let's take a look at them!
probably the most well-known one out of the bunch. this is a little puzzle game where you can catch cat versions of the SFV:CE roster by playing their puzzles. very simple, but comically addictive due to the encyclopedia's existance encouraging you to catch them all. i caught almost EVERY cat in this game, i'm just missing the seth one. i even gave them some unique names on my own even if they already had names in the game! the theme is edible things.
in order, from left to right
i love them all, and none of you are going to take them away from me. i'm not sharing. boo. you can play this game on flashpoint though.
do you like G? do you wanna play a shoot 'em up using G? you can! here you just go up against the four kings of shadaloo, but you can also get F.A.N.G. as a extra boss if you want to shoot the shit out of M. bison's boyfriend. also available on flashpoint!
a oddball high school take on street fighter where you get up against ryu, juri, or chun-li...by quickly awnsering questions about street fighter under a timelimit! nothing to write home about but it looks funny, i for sure can't play this game, because you can't either. to fill that void in, a video of what that game looked like.