Before I forget, Street Fighter games and King of Fighters games are best played in 2D for me. While I appreciate the creative efforts to depict the characters in a 3D setting, I still can't get behind the visuals. I dunno if they're worse or they're just too different from the original. Street Fighter character designs have more of a comic book/shounen manga feel, so it would make sense for the games to be in 2D because they capture the cartoonish but still a little realistic style. I feel it's a lot more difficult to convert that style to 3D without completely taking away the visual novelty of the 2D games.
King of Fighters evolved from semi-realistic to more anime-inspired character designs up until they decided to go with the Tekken/DoA-inspired 3D style for their latest game. Personally, I think they should have stuck with the 2D style that XII and XIII had for a little while longer, because I think fans were still adjusting to that 2D style and weren't quite expecting the quick switch to 3D.
However, I would love to see a BlazBlue title in the style of Guilty Gear Xrd. That is by far the most impressive take on 3D fighting games that I have seen (in a graphical sense, not gameplay-wise. Xrd is obviously a 2D fighter)! Xrd takes the cel-shaded Wind Waker style and adds anime-inspired lines and effects that is just so polished. I always thought the original Guilty Gear sprites were a bit messy, like they were made for a non-profit indie fighting game rather than a full-budget and licensed console game (not that it's necessarily a bad thing tho, making graphics for a game is not easy, we all know this), so I like the turn they took with Xrd.
King of Fighters evolved from semi-realistic to more anime-inspired character designs up until they decided to go with the Tekken/DoA-inspired 3D style for their latest game. Personally, I think they should have stuck with the 2D style that XII and XIII had for a little while longer, because I think fans were still adjusting to that 2D style and weren't quite expecting the quick switch to 3D.
However, I would love to see a BlazBlue title in the style of Guilty Gear Xrd. That is by far the most impressive take on 3D fighting games that I have seen (in a graphical sense, not gameplay-wise. Xrd is obviously a 2D fighter)! Xrd takes the cel-shaded Wind Waker style and adds anime-inspired lines and effects that is just so polished. I always thought the original Guilty Gear sprites were a bit messy, like they were made for a non-profit indie fighting game rather than a full-budget and licensed console game (not that it's necessarily a bad thing tho, making graphics for a game is not easy, we all know this), so I like the turn they took with Xrd.
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