In terms of gameplay, the changes were mostly minor.

Rather than tell the third chapter in the series, the game was more of a Street Fighter 1.5, not only bridging the gap between the two existing games, but also expanding on the Street Fighter world and even tying it into another classic arcade series.

On June 5, 1995, Street Fighter Alpha: Warrior’s Dreams was released to arcades. After Super Street Fighter II: Turbo hit in 1994, it seemed Capcom was ready to move on and, indeed, they released a brand new Street Fighter game in 1995. Rather than move to the next installment, Capcom instead rereleased several upgrades of Street Fighter II a practice that’s continued up until 2017 with Ultra Street Fighter II for the Switch. With Street Fighter II’s success came a running gag about how Capcom refused to count to three. Instead, most versions of the story had Bison interested in going after Ryu and forcing him to be a weapon in his plans. There were various characters going out of their way to find and defeat M. With what little plot Street Fighter had going on, it was split into two main stories: a drifter’s quest for self-realization through fighting and a science fiction crime lord’s attempts to take over the world. Bison, which always felt more like something out of a crossover story than anything else. Not counting the live-action movie and its cartoon spinoff, the main conflict tended to boil down to Ryu vs. We got a manga, a short-lived American comic, an anime movie, an anime series, a live-action movie, and a Saturday morning cartoon. Not that they didn’t try to adapt Street Fighter II into a narrative.

Generic guys like Joe and Retsu from the first game were replaced with better designed characters like Blanka and Zangief. It was another fighting tournament, this time connected to a very vague plot involving world domination, but the focus was more on the characters than the overall plot. Even beating the game just gave you a generic congratulations.ġ991’s Street Fighter II had more going on, and it gave us closure on how the first game ended (Ryu split open Sagat’s chest with a Shoryuken), but it didn’t have much real story to it. There was a martial arts tournament, you could either play as the Japanese karate guy or the American karate guy, and the final boss was a tall dude with an eye patch. No more than your average sports game, really. When Street Fighter came out in 1987, there was no story to it.

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