![]() ![]() And as you can imagine, the reception on that decision has not been positive. To the surprise of many of those players (or maybe not for seasoned mobile game veterans), Gore Magala Ken is only available with real money. As is the case for many of these gacha games, players hoard resources in anticipation for the first character drop and in this case, it was Gore Magala Ken - basically Ken wearing a Monster Hunter skin and wielding a giant weapon. Its global release was February 28 and today the Monster Hunter collaboration event launched and players are not happy. That’s pretty much what just happened with Street Fighter: Duel, a highly anticipated mobile game that has been available in China for quite some time now. And then the first major event arrives with a new character introduction and the honeymoon period is over. When it finally does arrival globally, the player base swarms the game and everyone talks about how great it is and how free-to-play-friendly it is. The game quickly grows in popularity and everyone is eager for its global release. A mobile gacha game launches based on a popular, well established franchise in a separate region outside of North America. And because the layout of the casino floor is designed to confuse you, it’s impossible to leave unless you’re absolutely determined to.You’ve probably heard this story before. You know it’s not that much money, and you can’t exactly figure out how the mixture of decals and numbers on the screen would point to you being a winner, but you’re excited that now you have 25 cents more than you used to. Think about if you’ve ever gone to a casino, sat down at a slot machine, put a dollar in, pulled the lever, and suddenly the machine starts flashing its lights because you just won a quarter. Because nearly every single one will reward you in small ways that ultimately don’t matter, but it’s the fact that you’re “winning” that makes you want to keep playing. ![]() But the menus of Street Fighter Duel, and the way they coax me to keep taping and chasing those little red exclamation marks, have something of a stranglehold on me. If I were that type of gamer, I’d be reviewing Football Manager titles every year. Its menus, while intentionally confusing, have compelled me to keep the app open in ways few other free-to-play games have. Those are a blast, and when you crank the speed of the fights up to 4x, it has all the visual charm of the craziest arcade games of the ‘90s. Especially when it comes to the various specials and EX attacks your team will throw out there. It does straddle the line of being too broadly appealing to be endearing, but I think it walks that rope quite well. While some might argue the look of this game is a bit too glossy and clean, I think the art direction is quite pleasing. You can have the game play itself, which might be the preferable way to go about it as I find Street Fighter Duel far more fun to watch than play.Ĭrunchyroll Games did a fantastic job animating the famous and not-so-famous faces of the Street Fighter franchise. Your team will fight on their own, but you can join the battle by activating their specials or the EX moves you’ll unlock without exactly understanding how. It’s a gacha auto-battler where you assemble a team of World Warriors that you earn in-game or receive in blind pulls. Street Fighter Duel is like the first 20 minutes of Babylon-visually spectacular but also really gross. I should have deleted it along with that too-dull-to-bother-with Avatar Generations game or the beautiful Ultimate Sackboy that didn’t wait for me to decide if I liked the game or not before asking for my money. A genre that is a dime a dozen on mobile that should have been the end of it right there. But I held onto that hope up until I downloaded the game and discovered it’s just another auto-battler blanketed in an obscene amount of menus. Foresight should have been able to tell me that. I shouldn’t have needed hindsight to know that was dumb. I mean, I probably could have scoured the web for deets on it from its soft launch (or just read the story Chris Moyse wrote on it two years ago), but this fool decided he wanted to go into it blind so as not to ruin the hope that, based on one screenshot of the gameplay, the game would be something similar to Project X Zone. But without all the smoke and people who’ve lost all hopeįor somebody who plays as many mobile games as I do, I was perhaps a bit too gullible about what Street Fighter Duel would be in the weeks leading up to its launch. ![]()
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