Lawl, NamcoxCapcom gave me the slight idea to do a post about Beat'em Ups I have played so far. xD'
Yeah, my second passion after RPGs are Beat'em Ups, lawl. xD'
And there is always a person longing for entries. xD
Okay, here I go, I'll write them in the order I played them.. I think. xD
Tekken: Tekken.. I was introduced to it by my older sis, than my younger sis got interesed and got some PS-magazine which had a demo to it, and the fighting system was quite fun. So... technically, I played Tekken 3 as first, but for real.. Tekken Tag was the first beat'em up I played, considering Tekken 3 was a demo with only 2 characters playable. xD
I loved to play that game so much, it has stunning graphics and a wide range of different characters and fighting styles. It's usually hand-to-hand combat (with the exception for a few characters), and as the first beat'em up I played it will be always special in my heart. xD
The characters of Tekken.. hm, since I looked through NamcoxCapcom, I have the feeling they are pretty much retarded, plus the storyline is always revenge, revenge, revenge.. which gets kinda old and the fact that characters get almost always revived. xD'
They don't really come up with a new storyline and yeah.. so beat'em ups aren't supposed to be that much about stories, I guess..
Tekken is also at fault that I have a slight obsession about Korea. xD
Characters I use: Hwoarang, Bake Doo San, Eddy Gordo, Forest Law, Kuma/Panda, True Ogre, Julia Chang, Wang Jinrei, Steve (Fox? XD), Christie Monteiro, Feng Wei
Characters I like: Hwoarang ♥ xD, Baek, Jin Kazama... I think Jun by now, Lei is funny, Paul and Law, Steve and ever since that game... Heihachi. :x
Adaptions:
Anime:
Movie: There was a movie to Tekken, mixing the first and second Tekken-tournament. It's mainly the story between Kazuya and Jun, and how she saves him from hatred.
Appearing characters: Kazuya Mishima, Jun, Kazama, Heihachi Mishima, Lei Wulong, Lee Chaolan, Anna Williams, Nina Williams, Jack, Dr. Boskonovitch, Michelle Chang, Alex, Roger, Jin Kazama; Cameos: Baek Doo San, Paul Phoenix, Marshall Law, ??? XD
Fights: Kazuya vs. Nina, Kazuya vs. Lee, Kazuya&Jun vs Alexes, Kazuya vs. Michelle, Lei&Jack vs P.Jacks, Lei vs. Roger, Nina vs Anna, Kazuya vs. Heihachi (lawl, this if from my memory, there might be missing some xD)
Lawl-points:
-why from all characters Roger gets screentime xD
-Neither Heihachi nor Kazuya throw each other off the cliff in that tournament
-Kazuya is rescued from his hatred and should live happily ever after, but isn't shown in the epilogue
There are a few Chinese movies, I think, and another Tekken-movie to come, which will center about Jin and his killer-instincts towards his father and grandfather, but yeah.. don't know anything about them. xD'
Street Fighter: Here it comes, the mother of all Beat'em Ups, Street Fighter, which I will also call my personal favourite between all those games, though it might be for all those adaptions it got that the characters grew so much on me. Yeah, I like them more than the system itself, though I have also fun playing that, but I fail so much at that game adfhadkf, it's soo difficult for me to get enough points to enter the proper storyline. xD'
The game is nowhere as fancy as modern beat'em ups are, but it has it's own charm and I enjoy the 2D-graphics in SF more than the 3D-ones, to be entirely honest. The characters all have... very similar moves somehow (at least the way you have to push the buttons), but I don't mind. xD'
NamcoxCapcom made me love the characters in that game even more, though I tend to prefer.. yes, the Capcom vs. SNK-crossovers, they give me somehow more fun than the regular SF-games. xD'
So when I come to the characters, I will write them down, too. xD
The story.. well, the characters at least develop here, which is already a great point for it and don't stay as they are in the beginning. Plus Ryu&Ken's rivalry&friendship? Gets a major win from me.
The western localisation gets a mee-point of me, though. I mean.. I still kinda understand the mess with license and the swap between Vega(->M.Bison), Balrog(->Vega), M.Bison(->Balrog), yeah.. but why turn Gouki into Akuma? Or Satsui Hadou no mezameta Ryu into Evil Ryu? Or brainwashed Ken into violent Ken? XDDDD
Characters I use: Ken Masters, Ryu, Blanka, Nakoruru, Yuri, Kim, Terry, Hokuto, Dan and others if I feel like it. xD I would like to play Karin one of these days. xD
Characters I like: Ken ♥♥♥, Ryu ♥ (oh, I am so creative xD), Chun Li, Cammy White, Fei Long, Karin, Eliza (does she even count xD), Sagat, Gouki, Dhalsim, Guile, Nakoruru, Terry and many more, I guess~~ xD
Adaptions:
Anime:
Movie:
Street Fighter II : This movie is loosly based on the story of the game, trying to squish in as many characters as possible. It mainly goes about Ryu wandering around somewhere and Ken living his daily life, obsessed with each other on when they would fight again. Meanwhile Chun Li and Guile try to get their hands on Shadowloo, which again, is interested in Ryu...
Appearing characters: Ryu, Ken Masters, Sagat, Cammy, Chun Li, Guile, T.Hawk, Dee Jay, Balrog, Vega, M. Bison, Zangief, Blanka, E.Honda, Dhalsim, Fei Long, Eliza
Fights: Ryu vs. Sagat, Ken vs. T.Hawk, Ryu vs. Fei Long, Dhalsim vs. E.Honda, Balrog vs. Chun Li, Zangief vs. Blanka, Vega vs. Ken, Ken vs. Ryu, E. Honda vs. M. Bison, Vega vs. Guile, Ryu&Ken vs. Vega
Lawl-points:
-Ken is obsessing about Ryu while he is proposing to Eliza
-they change brainwashed Ryu into a brainwashed Ken (from the original storyline)
-Ryu muses about his past with Ken in the most weird places xD
-people die from falling from a building, but apparantly not from a mountain
Street Fighter Alpha(Zero): This is based on Ryu's awakening to the "Satsui no Hadou" after their master was killed by Gouki. Must be set shortly after, since it is the first time Ken realizes it in that movie etc etc. xD'
Ryu struggles with that Satsui no Hadou inside him, Ken comes for a vist, and voila - unexpected visitor Shun explains them he was Ryu's little brother and to make the confusion perfect, he also seems a victim to the satsui no hadou. Meanwhile, Sakura chases after Ryu and Chun Li investigates a scientist named Sadler.
Second part of the movie is about how Ryu, Ken and Chun Li try to save Shun from Sadler.
I think - though I don't really like the art of that movie too much - this might be my favourite movie out of the four, I struggle mostly between the SF II-movie and this one.
Appearing characters: Ryu, Ken, Rose, Chun Li, Sakura, Shun, Gouki, Dan, Birdie, Sadler, Zangief, robot; cameos: Guy, Dhalsim, Balrog, Adon and I don't know the name of the rest xD
Fights: Zangief vs. Shun, Zangief vs. Ryu, Ryu&Chun Li vs. robot, Dan vs. Balrog, Birdie vs. Dan, Birdie&Ken&Chun Li vs. robot, Ken vs. robot, Ryu vs. robo&Shun, Ryu vs. Sadler
Lawl-points:
-Ken is much more an advisor and ends in a damsel in distress position (seriously, wth? He and Ryu are supposed to be equally strong in normal cases, right? RIGHT? XD')
-Dan looks like he is killed in the first part but appears in the second part nevertheless
-they just decided Ryu overcame his Satsui no Hadou, though he didn't even receive Ken's hairband yet xD
Street Fighter Alpha Generations: Okay, this movie is based on the "Satsui no Hadou" again, starting with the story of Gouki and Gouken and later on, withh Ryu's struggle.
Appearing characters: Gouki, Gouken, Ryu, Sakura, Ken, funny old guy, Fuka(?XD)
Fights: Gouki vs. Goutetsu, Gouki vs. Gouken(I am not sure entirely about those xD'), old guy vs. Ryu, Ryu vs. Sakura, Ryu vs. Gouki
Lawl-points:
-this is the only SF-adaption with Ryu and Ken while both appearing, they never meet each other
-it is even stronger hinted that Ryu might be Gouki's son, though there is no hints in the games whatsoever
-Ken sounds like a farmer in the English dub xD
-who the old guy is is never explained
Street Fighter IV: Ryu wanders around and struggles with the Satsui no Hadou, Ken is in stress due to work, Cammy, Guile and Chun Li investigate a mysterious organization which kidnaps fighters and do weird experiments with them. In the meanwhile, Viper approaches Ken and his wife, Eliza.
Appearing characters: Ryu, Ken, Cammy, Chun Li, Guile, Viper, Sakura, Seth, Eliza, Mel(? XDD)
Fights: dfkjdsf I barely remember, I think: Cammy vs. Viper, Ryu vs. Viper, Ken vs. Viper (if that can be called a fight), Ryu vs. Seth
Lawl-points:
-Ken is too emo and his voice too deep (yes, I realized her how much I like his ego and his laid-back character xD)
-subs are totally lawl xD
-Ryu thinks of Ken in the most weird places
-Satsui no Hadou starts to get overused
-Viper has the most useful shoes in the universe
Series:
Street Fighter Yomigaeru Fujiwara-Kyou: Most.interesting.adaption.ever. I mean.. using SF-characters to give you history-lessons is a very interesting concept, right? XD
Appearing characters: Ryu, Ken, Chun Li, E. Honda
Fights: /
Lawl-points:
-no fights
-Ken knows more about the history of Japan than Ryu, even though he is American
-Chun Li dances in a random parade
-getting into trains will lead you back in time
Street Fighter II V: Ryu gets invited by Ken to the USA, in one bar, they receive a major beating by Guile and decide to travel the world for stronger fighters and they unwillingly get involved with crime.
Appearing characters: Ryu, Ken, Guile, Chun Li, Fei Long, Sagat, Dhalsim, Balrog, M. BIson, Vega, Cammy, Nash, Dorai
Fights: Ryu vs. Ken-spars(quite frequently xD), Ryu vs. Guile, Ken vs. Guile, Ken vs. Fei Long, Ryu vs. Sagat, Ryu vs. Ken, Ken vs Balrog, Ryu vs. Zangief, Ryu vs. Vega, Ken vs. brainwashed Ryu, Guile vs. Zangief, Chun Li vs. Vega, Chun Li vs. Guile, Cammy vs. Fei Long, Cammy vs. M. Bison Nash vs. Vega, Ryu&Ken vs. Vega
Lawl-points:
-vitamin B is everything
-Ken likes to flirt too much
-Ryu is ooc, so I guess it is okay for a younger version of him
-Chun Li is kinda childish
-Gouki somehow appears as a cameo whereever Ryu and Ken happen to be
-Dhalsim taught Ryu&Ken Hadouken
-Hadouken takes ages to charge
-swimming pools are... interesting xD
Other:
Street Fighter (with humans): Sergeant Guile fights against Bison and Shadowlaw, and he gets help from Chun Li's reporter-team and the weapon-dealers Ryu & Ken
Appearing characters: Guile, Cammy, T.Hawk, Bison, Sagat, Ryu, Ken, Dee Jay, Zangief, Chun Li, Balrog, E. HOnda, Dhalsim, Blanka(= Nash=Charlie)
Fights: defjdh difficulties again, but the ones that come to my mind are: Chun Li vs. Bison, Ryu&Ken vs. Vega &Sagat, Zangief vs E.Honda, Guile vs. Bison
Lawl-points:
-There are far too many. xD
-Guile is the protagonist, lawl, wut? XD
-Chun Li isn't with Interpol
-Balrog is on the good site? XD
-Ryu & Ken... weapon dealers? As far as I know Ken is already too rich xD
-Nash/Charlie is Blanka? Where did that come from? XD
-Bison is too... small and slender
-Psycho Power = electricity? XD
-best Shoryuken ever
Serioiusly, this movie is so bad, the only thing which saves this movie is Byron Man for me. xDD
Street Fighter - some Chun Li centered movie, I won't even watch it. Why? Chun Li = pianist? No thanks.xD
Dead or Alive: The first game was also on the same demo as the Tekken-one, but I think the regular game was later? Well, I am not entirely sure if SF or this was first. xD
Anyways, game-play-wise, this is my favourite out of the beat'em ups, the fights are lots of fun and all that stuff, though sometimes the.. boobs are dkfkf. xD'
Characterwise, the girls are love, some of the guys are, of course, too. xD
Storywise... only the protagonists get a change in their story, the rest seems doomed to have the same storyline for eternity. xD
Characters I use: Ein/Hayate, Hitomi, Jann Lee, Helena, Gen Fu
Characters I like: Hayate, Ayane, Hitomi, Helena
Adaptions:
A regular movie and no, I haven't really watched it, only parts and I won't look at it again because they fight-scenes made me laugh too much xD'
Soul Calibur: My sis got it for the Dreamcast.. and that's about it. She also bought the two sequels.The graphics again are very pretty, but I really have not that much fun with the fighting system. xD'
Story... I guess seems okay for me. xD
Everyone is after Soul Edge and stuff, but for their own reasons. xD
Characters I use: Yun Seong, Seung Mina, Maxi, Sophitia, Cassandra, Raphael
Characters I like: Yun Seong, Seung Mina, Talim, Mitsurugi, Taki, Raphael, Maxi, Kilik
Adaptions: /
Virtua Fighter: I own only one game of those, and while it gets highly recommended in every magazine, I don't fnd it that good. xD
At least not that fun, but than again, I haven't properly trained any of those characters, but they seem okay, only a bit slow for an offensive fighter like me. xD
So, like I said, I have not much idea of the story, nor do I use specific characters and I also don't know any adaptions of it. xD
On another note, the Pegasus-centric chat yesterday was awesome. xD