Capcom Fighting Collection 2 Review (and Capcom vs. SNK bonus round)

With Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves happily promoting a well-known potential rapist and tax evader, Capcom Fighting Collection 2 was my most anticipated game of the year and a huge deal for fighting games on the whole.  Just think that in the old days, having one of the games on a console was worth 50 dollars each and now they’re all in one place for 40 dollars.  Those games on consoles have had varying degrees of inaccessibility over the years, with one in particular being virtually impossible to play until now.

This new collection also means that it’s time for another addendum in this blog’s documented battle between SNK and Capcom.  Until this collection I couldn’t take Plasma Sword, Project Justice, Street Fighter Alpha 3 Upper or the first Capcom vs. SNK into consideration, but now just like with the Marvel Collection, that will be amended and Capcom will have the chance to break the tie and be the king of arcades.  I will still be going over the games I’ve already looked at as well to judge any subtle differences between the versions featured in this collection and the ports I played before.

Me Playing Magic: The Gathering

TV Edits of the Viewtiful Joe Anime: Episode 16

Joe and Junior travel to a flower field where a mysterious girl with magic powers named Alisa protects a miracle flower that never blooms.  This flower is supposed to allow for fairies to come to the human world.  Inconveniently this is right before Charles goes after it for an ingredient in his potion.

TV Edits of The Viewtiful Joe Anime: Episode 15

In today's episode, Joe and Junior help a team of rebels take back their kingdom, now named Black Jadowland, from Jadow themselves.  Jadow, meanwhile, pose a wedding for Silvia and Alastor to lure Joe out.

The name of the episode is To Have and Hold Captive, which is likely a play on the movie To Have and Have Not, but if this episode is supposed to be based on that, it's very loose.  To Have and Have Not involves France during World War 2, but this one seems to be based more on Joan of Arc, whom the resistance leader bears a resemblance to many modern depictions.  I could be wrong though.

TV Edits of the Viewtiful Joe Anime: Episode 14

The clip show episode.  After everyone's failures at Jadow, Sprocket has the biankies make a film of everyone's past defeats and are threatened with termination if any of them interfere with the editing.  Apparently not understanding what "interfere" means, they all interfere with the editing process.

Since this episode is all about the members of Jadow, Sprocket plays an important role, but she isn't visibly present for most of it, meaning there isn't as much that needs to be edited for her.