Game:

SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos (2003)

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Let's Play

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This here's the last game on my Tessa To-Do list: SvC Chaos: SNK vs Capcom. Boy is it a fun game...


SNK's outing in the crossover series, SvC Chaos takes some gameplay elements from other games - mostly from their King of Fighters series - and comes up with a few of its own. The mechanics themselves are...well...

For one, you get a "Maximum" timer, like KoF02 had. As the timer runs down, you can do combos, move cancels, and supers, but they run the timer down faster.
It kinda works like it did in '02, but when the timer runs out completely, instead of going back to 1 power bar, you go back to two. Now this wouldn't be too bad, but it's REALLY easy to go from 2 power bar back into "Maximum" mode, where you can do it all over again. It's almost like you have infinite supers!

Another bit of gameplay is the "Guard Cancel" mechanic. While guarding, you can quickly snap out of it and counter an aggressive opponent with your own attack, or dash toward them for closer range.
With this, you can pretty much dash through everything and get an easy counter off on anyone, anytime. Great! Right? No.
You could probably win a whole round doing nothing but countering. That's some silly shit right there.


As for the roster...it ain't too bad, but there are some big names missing on both sides.

On SNK's side, Samurai Showdown's Haohmaru and Nakoruru are nowhere to be seen. The same goes for World Heroes' Hanzo and Fuuma, and even the King of Fighters' own Rugal Bernstein are out of sight. In their place, we get...Kasumi? Earthquake?
Eeehhh...they're not bad characters or anything, but still...

Capcom's side, even though it's already got a load of Street Fighter characters, is mysteriously missing everybody's favorite grappler, Zangief! I'm guessing though that they wanted to give SFIII's Hugo some spotlight, so they replaced Zangief with him. Can't blame them for that...can you?
Morrigan, Lilith, and maybe even Felicia or Hsien-ko could of also filled out the huge Darkstalkers void in the roster that Demitri tried so hard to fill. The guy's SNK-style sprites are awesome an' all, but he's only one man. He can only do so much by himself. :(


Something I especially like about SvC Chaos though: The dialogue.
Before every match begins, the two characters that are facing off have a little (or huge in some cases...) exchange of words with each other.
It's really fun to go through all the different matchups to see what everyone has to say to each other. A lot of it is pretty cheesy, but I guess after doing 100+ different matchups it gets a little difficult to have everyone say something meaningful. But some of them...

http://i899.photobucket.com/albums/ac197/PersonDude/Screenshots/AwesomeDialouge3.png?t=1262244290

Just...lol.

The game has some serious flaws, but it's still pretty fun to play. As long as you don't take it too seriously, it's good times. Tessa looks and sounds sweet in it too.


This playthrough is four parts long, so sit back and enjoy the silly AI!

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