2023-04-21 17:26:04
It was the big surprise of the showcases organized by Capcom concerning Street Fighter VI: a playable demo version has been available since last night on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. It arrives on other media on April 26th. What to find to initiate the return of one of the most famous fighting game sagas of all time. Among the available modes is the World Tour. An unexpected adventure mode that may well appeal to the reluctant of the genre.
Flagship license of the fighting game, Street Fighter seems to want to attract a new audience. Evidenced by its mode World Tour on Street Fighter 6, a real anomaly with the appearance of a punch for anyone who has approached the episodes in recent years. From the first minutes, it is possible to personalize an avatar in its own image: musculature, face… Many options are possible but the indifferent can always generate a random model. But you have to choose well, since it is this one that you will control in the streets of Metro City.
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During the introductory cutscene, we learn that we are among Luke’s students: the owner of a boxing gym whose teachings we want to follow to find “”strength””. A passage that serves as a tutorial: character movements with the left joystick and those of the camera with the right joystick. There follows a fight against “”the coach”” which also allows you to learn the basics. Weak blow, medium blow, strong blow… We find the classic controls of the previous opuses. Nothing out of the ordinary so far. Once our proof is done, Luke then sends us to the streets of Metro City with a phone: it is he who serves as the main menu where we can see our missions, our objects, etc.
We learn that we can challenge anyone they want to fight in Metro City. It’s more or less the principle since winning fights allows you to gain experience and level up. A super pleasant role-playing aspect: leveling up allows you to recover skill points to invest in a talent tree. You can then choose to gain strength on your punches or projections, or even an additional slot for your special. A limited customization in the demo but which opens the field of possibilities so much for the future! Our character also has combat-related stats: Life, Punch, Kick, Throw, Unique, and Defense.
A system which is an excellent surprise and which, on paper, seems really attractive: you can focus on a type of kick like the foot, learn the combos to have a real learning curve.
A perfect way to learn
They will sometimes be two to want the fight.
But that’s not all ! There are Masters, iconic Street Fighter characters like Chun-Li, whose special moves can be learned. It’s also their style, which has its own experience bar, which probably promises us access to other talent trees. The end of chapter 1 of the demo advises us to go to Chinatown to see master Chun-Li, whose martial art is very different from that resulting from Luke’s military training. Enough to motivate the exploration and discovery of all styles of characters to really know which one you want to play.
Not being personally a fan of Street Fighter and games of Versus Fighting in general, this sixth numbered opus of the saga of Capcom gives me more than envy. Ce Mode World Tour could be, in my opinion, the ideal feature for all players frightened by the amount of sequences to learn before embarking on the deep end of ranked games: it gives a guided learning but takes everyone’s skills. What really happen with weapons in hand online, what previous episodes can not do. This Street Fighter role-playing game really seems to give the player the keys to personalizing his character while learning the style of the fighters already available. It remains to be seen if the immense content that one can imagine (a big score of characters on paper) will be there without being redundant in the long run. In any event, I’ve never wanted so much to invest myself really in an episode of Street Fighter if it’s not this sixth episode that could well reconcile me with the saga. Not sure that time will let me do what I want though: Street Figter 6 is out on PC, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series and PS5, on the same date as Diablo 4’s early access.
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