Kyosuke (from Rival Schools) has a (generally useless) S-Groove infinite. You got characters from Street Fighter and Fatal Fury and Darkstalkers and Last Blade, all playing with different systems like Parry and Dodge like they’re from each others’ games. SNK 2 is that the game is essentially a curated MUGEN distro that preserves the first decade of 2D fighting games into a single, cohesive, playable form.

The second thing you need to understand about Capcom vs. Capcom 2 was for everyone who was thinking about dropping out of school to play online poker full-time. At the time, Third Strike was generally maligned as boring (in part because most matches started with two Chun-Li’s whiffing normals to build meter for 30 seconds) and it didn’t have any arcade-perfect home ports, ST was for old people with Fundamentals (fireballs), and Marvel vs. It is not a Street Fighter game, but it was Street Fighter enough to be the most popular game. The first thing you need to understand about Capcom vs SNK 2 is that for a couple years it was the “main event” of the NA FGC. I often describe CvS2 as the Grateful Dead of fighting games if you were there for its peak, you’ll have fond memories every time you see it at an event, but if you weren’t, it just seems like a bunch of old people going on and on forever. SNK 2 was that game for me, and since I get a lot of folks who got into fighting games after CvS2’s heyday asking me what the game is like and how to get into it, I figured I’d write about it. Everyone who plays fighting games invariably finds that their tastes and expectations are heavily shaped by the game that got them into playing seriously.

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