Now that my initial Street Fighte IV mania has cooled a bit, I see that my Thursday night post doesn't mention any of what I don't like about the game. So here's a quick list:
- As cool as it is to be able to set the language of each character's voice (during both fights and cutscenes), the English voices are consistently bad.
- I still feel like there aren't enough moves for each character, especially supers.
- Nitpicky, but when Zangief does his big spinning piledriver to finish a fight, the victim's humorously exaggerated expression of agony usually isn't visible at the K.O. moment. This wasn't so in the arcade version.
- The Xbox 360 controller makes it pretty much impossible to do Guile's ultra combo, and there's no way I'm buying one of those monstrous arcade sticks
- Some of the in-game move lists are incomplete and/or inaccurate.
- The title theme song is annoying, although I guess I can forgive that because it's performed by well-meaning J-pop giants EXILE (of "Choo-Choo Train" fame).
- The animated scenes that bookend each character's story mode are some of the worst anime I've seen since Samurai Shodown: The Motion Picture.
- No final boss should ever be called Seth, unless he's hell-bent on making this the best Chrismukkah ever.
