5th May, 2023
Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: brawling, snapshots, and more snapshots.
If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We’ve Been Playing, here’s our archive.
Street Fighter 6, PS5
The Street Fighter 6 demo is in full swing, and while it offers a portion of the game that I, a Street Fighter competitive multiplayer purist, care little for, I couldn’t help but dip in to see what Capcom had up its sleeve for newcomers and those interested in the single-player side of things.
It is, well, weird.
You may have seen some of the nightmarish avatars players have drummed up with the help of Street Fighter 6’s robust character creator. Some have gone viral on social media, they’re that… out there. In a genius move, Capcom has made it so avatars created in the Street Fighter 6 demo carry over into the final release, so if nothing else you can use it to save time before the game launches in June. And you will save a lot of time, because you can spend hours messing about in this thing.
In the end I went for a robot-looking ball-buster with piercing blue eyes straight outta Dune – and into the World Tour I took her. What I found was the first Street Fighter game with actual street fighting.
World Tour begins by thrusting you out into the streets of Metro City, Final Fight’s famous crime-ridden metropolis. There’s a Times Square vibe to this initial area, with bright lights and plenty of bystanders milling about. You get a message from Luke, one of Street Fighter 6’s playable characters and your early-doors mentor, who tells you to speak to someone who then tells you to beat two people up. Who, exactly? Anyone. Just walk up to someone minding their own business on the street and beat them up. Really.