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Character in Fighting Games - Part III: Guest Character Gamut

April 08, 2025 by Lucas Kelleher in opinion

What makes a good addition to a Fighter Game roster? What makes a bad one? And why are all the fighting game aficionados suddenly talking about Cristiano Ronaldo?

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April 08, 2025 /Lucas Kelleher
Fighting Games, Guest Characters, Tekken, Soul Calibur, Street Fighter, Fatal Fury, City Of The Wolves
opinion
Comment

Character in Fighting Games - Part II: More Than Functions

August 06, 2024 by Lucas Kelleher in opinion

The draw to play a fighting game with Magneto isn’t to do eight-way dashes, it’s to play as Magneto. You can’t just replace him with a knockoff character, even if that knockoff has all the same functions.

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August 06, 2024 /Lucas Kelleher
Fighting Games, X-Men, Marvel, Marvel Vs Capcom 2, Magneto, X-Men vs. Street Fighter
opinion
Comment

Street Fighter 6 review

May 10, 2024 by Lucas Kelleher in game reviews

Street Fighter is back, and this time World Tour mode is a Final Fight game. Let’s go!

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May 10, 2024 /Lucas Kelleher
Street Fighter 6, Street Fighter, Fighting Games, Capcom, Final Fight
game reviews
Comment

Samurai Shodown NeoGeo Collection review

May 26, 2022 by Lucas Kelleher in game reviews

Digital Eclipse brings us the definitive Samurai Shodown collection.

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May 26, 2022 /Lucas Kelleher
Samurai Shodown, NeoGeo, SNK, Fighting Games, compilations
game reviews
Comment

Fighting EX Layer: Another Dash review

March 14, 2022 by Lucas Kelleher in game reviews

One of our favorite fighting games in recent years has come to Nintendo Switch!

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March 14, 2022 /Lucas Kelleher
FEXL, Arika, Switch, Indie games, Street Fighter EX, Fighting Games
game reviews
Comment

Samurai Shodown (Switch) review

March 07, 2022 by Lucas Kelleher in game reviews

The way of the Samurai is to know death.

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March 07, 2022 /Lucas Kelleher
Samurai Shodown, Switch, SNK, Fighting Games
game reviews
Comment

New 2D fighter Blazing Strike gets first trailer

August 06, 2021 by Lucas Kelleher in news

Get ready for the next great 2D fighting game.

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August 06, 2021 /Lucas Kelleher
Blazing Strike, RareBreed Makes Games, Fighting Games, Indie games
news
Comment

Fighting EX Layer is coming to Switch

April 06, 2021 by Lucas Kelleher in news

So Arika really likes dropping news on April Fools day, eh?

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April 06, 2021 /Lucas Kelleher
Arika, Switch, Indie games, FEXL, Fighting Games
news
Comment

X-Men vs. Street Fighter review

August 04, 2020 by Lucas Kelleher in game reviews, retrospective

X-Men Vs. Street Fighter. ‘Nuff said.

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August 04, 2020 /Lucas Kelleher
X-Men, Street Fighter, X-Men vs. Street Fighter, Capcom, Arcade, crossover, Marvel, Arcade1Up, Fighting Games, Gambit
game reviews, retrospective
Comment

Samurai Shodown (Game Boy) review

March 16, 2020 by Lucas Kelleher in game reviews, retrospective

A samurai fears nothing, especially not handheld ports.

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March 16, 2020 /Lucas Kelleher
Samurai Shodown, Game Boy, SNK, Takara, Fighting Games
game reviews, retrospective
1 Comment

Dreamcast was a fighting game powerhouse

December 19, 2019 by Lucas Kelleher in retrospective, opinion

If there was a fighting game to be played in 2000, it was on Dreamcast.

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December 19, 2019 /Lucas Kelleher
Fighting Games, Dreamcast, Sega, Soul Calibur, Street Fighter, Marvel Vs Capcom 2, Dead Or Alive, Project Justice, Shenmue
retrospective, opinion
2 Comments

Fighting EX Layer review

April 01, 2019 by Lucas Kelleher in game reviews

Oh, hell yeah. EX is back, baby!

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April 01, 2019 /Lucas Kelleher
FEXL, Arika, PS4, Street Fighter EX, Fighting Games, Indie games, PlayStation
game reviews
Comment

Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection review

December 31, 2018 by Lucas Kelleher in game reviews

The Street Fighter collection we’ve been waiting for.

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December 31, 2018 /Lucas Kelleher
SF30th, Street Fighter, Capcom, PS4, Switch, Fighting Games, Street Fighter II, Street Fighter Alpha, compilations, PlayStation
game reviews
Comment

The Importance of Story & Character in Fighting Games

August 20, 2018 by Lucas Kelleher in opinion

Character design will always be the beating heart of a fighting game.

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August 20, 2018 /Lucas Kelleher
Fighting Games, Street Fighter, Samurai Shodown
opinion
6 Comments

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