"The circle is now complete. What was once a software company that single-handedly invented the fighting genre with the punch-bag arcade classic, Street Fighter (no, Commodore 64 fans, we're not counting The Way of the Exploding Fist and Yie Ar Kung Fu), is now stealing the entire premise of its latest combat game from (of all places) Nintendo. But cut them some slack, Capcom is completely justified in this rampant thievery as it single-handedly kept Culture Brain (and to a lesser extent, SNK) afloat in the '90s. Now it is its turn to purloin an idea or two. Capcom's studied Super Smash Bros. Melee, then sucked out all the "tweeness" and replaced it with a kick-ass, Teen-rated-artierial-sprayin', spirit-orb-suckin', feudal-Japan hack-and-slashin', Onimusha graphics-rehashin' combat magnum opus with room for up to four players, and many more hidden characters."
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Game Spy
Mar 2, 2004, 11:52 PM
