The KO #44 - Should I keep playing Capcom Fighting Evolution? = o
1I kept Capcom Fighting Evolution (I sure wish Capcom USA had kept the "Capcom Fighting Jam" name the game had in other territories : P) in my "to be played" pile because well A) it has progressive--480p--output, but also because where else are you gonna get these wacky character match-ups, and it's a completely 2D fighter from Capcom, their last one I guess(?).
But a lot of the match-ups just feel so awkward; the Darkstalkers characters in particular just don't feel right to me going up against the rest of the cast (maybe I'm just saying this because I kept getting whupped for free by Demitri ;_;), the two giant Red Earth characters kind of feel like a joke that didn't land, the Third Strike characters don't get to pick their Super Arts (R.I.P. Urien's Aegis Reflector ;_;), and the constant mixing of different systems feels confusing and not at all balanced.
On top of that, the difficulty curve starts way too gentle and then suddenly gets way too steep, most of the backgrounds are static, boring, blurry gray messes, the music is not at all up to Capcom's incredibly high fighting game music standards, and the game as a whole just feels severely lacking in love and inspiration compared with Capcom's other 2D fighting games. The game had a tortured development--supposedly it was the remnants of the canned Capcom Fighting All-Stars, and then the original producer left halfway through--so that probably explains some of it, but it also just feels like a game that really shouldn't have happened in the first place.
I find it somewhat endearing just for that reason, but it definitely is a bit hard to take, and playing it, you have to ask yourself Why am I playing this when I could be playing any of the original games for these characters--well okay, not Red Earth probably--and having a much more complete experience?
(Also I wish they had not changed it from the Japanese version, so that now even if your chosen character is defeated in the first round, you can still use them again in the next round--it just doesn't make much sense and sort of defeats the point of the paired matches anyway. Although if you only actually want to play as one character I guess you can, so maybe I shouldn't complain. It does feel weird though--as does the entire game!)
Time stamps:
0:10 - Intro movie
1:04 - Options
1:54 - Urien and Kenji
12:46 - Zangief and Hauser
24:20 - Felicia and Sakura
Recording hardware: PS2 to Framemeister to Elgato HD60.
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