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"ARE YOU KEN!"

Or so the rather forgetful Ken shouted.

Anyway. The point of this is to ask a simple question. Who was the greatest Street Fighter 2 character?

Lets have a run-down brain.

(Right, first up, Ryu.)

(Ryu is quite a dark character, and had some decent moves. Dragon punch, although difficult to pull off, was a very useful, and quite deadly move. As was the dragon ball thing.)

Ryu was a crap puncher, mind. Best to keep to kicks with him.

(E. Honda, only useful for his hundred hand slap, was a must for all wusses of the game. No-one ever used any of his other moves... basically because they were crap.)

(Blanka, another of the wusses favourites, bit like E. Honda, but he had good punches and kicks, and the rest of his moves weren't all that bad. Still, no-one ever used them, apart from the forward roll.)

The ending to Blankas fight was one of the weirdest mind.

(Guile was quite a popular character... never really worked out why. Only two special moves, Sonic boom, which was easily dodged, and the backflip kick thing, which was actually quite good.)

He had one of the best arenas to fight in mind. The jet plane.

(Guile did have very strong punches and kicks mind. If you were to dedicate yourself to that character, you would be a force to be reckoned with.)

(Next up, Ken. The less masculine version of Ryu.)

Eh?

(It is quite obvious... blond hair, showoff... he must be gay.)

The only real difference between Ryu and Ken, is the throws. Ken does this roll when he throws with his leg.

(I think Ken had a weaker kick as well.)

(Chun Li was the only woman in the game. Lovely legs.)

Lovely legs.

(Quite strong too. Her spinning kick was good, and her throws were quite impressive. Pretty crappy punchs mind.)

She could jump off the side walls as well. That was helpful.

(Next was Zangief, never really liked him... and he had a very odd ending too.)

All he seemed to do was throw. And that spinning arm thing.

(The PROPER throw, where he spinned around and all, was the most hard hitting move in the game. Was pretty hard to pull off mind. Not a good character for someone to just pick up and play.)

And that bloke in his background... the alcoholic one. All he did was drink... from the same bottle... all the time...

(Dhalism was popular among newbies to the game, and hardcore players too. His rubber arms and legs were good for the newcomers, and his moves were excellent.)

I never mangaged to totally master his teleportation... One thing not a lot of people knew about Dhalism was that when you jumped, if you pulled down and punched or kicked, he would do this spinning floating move. It was a good move, and could even defeat Ryu's dragon punch.

(The first boss, Balrog, was only good for one thing.)

Punching?

(Yes, and combos. He did nothing else. He couldn't even jump very high.)

Quite a good character mind. But he had a crap ending. All the bosses did.

(Second boss, was Vega. So many people thought he was a girl...)

Long hair. The second of the less masculine men.

(He had these Wolverine like prongs on his hands, so his punchs were very good. He had quite a few good moves mind.)

One of the best moments of the game is when you start to beat the cap out of Vega, and you break his claws off.

(Sagat was this amazing character... very fast, and very strong punches and kicks.)

But he copied all of Ryus moves. Three characters with the same moves... seemed a bit lazy.

(One of the more beautiful backgrounds mind...)

Yeah.

(Lastly, M. Bison.)

I always though M. Bison looked like a teacher I had in my old school.

(The quite ultimate Neo-Nazi figure, M. Bison wanted to rule the world with an iron fist. Quite literaly as well, because he had a electric current running through it, which allowed that amazing move...)

Very hard to beat. But I never thought he had enough moves.


So. There are the characters. So which one did YOU use all the time?

It certainly was, no is, a great game.

I'm only getting rid of it as it's my game, but the SNES lives with my parents, so I can't play it no more!

BTW have you got/ played Illusion of Time?

If so did you ever collect all of the gems and give them to that guy, then do the extra level? I never could finish that bit!


And who did have the best SFII music?

I have the SNES ready on the 37''
I have the multitap ready on the SNES.
I have thw controllers ready on the multitap.
I have the friends ready at the door.
All i need is the game!!

yuummmm.

No probs mate.

I cant wait for secret of mana!
Cheers!

Okay, but whose level had the best music?

Balrog may have not been that great to play with, but his music was cool!

Yes I agree Spinal was really good! he was brill when I could perform a 32 hit combo when asked at any time!

ahhh Spinal

(Sagat was good yes... you are forgiven.)

Blanka was good when you had to get you money's worth!

I out grew him, really when I got a home version of the game.

I didn't write it because it was a crap move. Easy to dodge.


To next point, what was the best move in the game?

(Blanka was for the wusses. You wusses.)

My favourite character was definatley Blanka, not coz of his electric.

Ken came next, then Zangief, I could pull off his spinning pile driver every single time.

Vega was great I take it you didn't ever work out how to dive off the cage? He did a swan dive and a ball thing.

come on you must have been crap, i was a seasoned vet