There’s something very special about the process of old-fashioned, frame-by-frame, 2D animation. In the old days, the only way to get your animated character to wave his or her arm was to spend hours upon hours painstakingly crafting each frame and constantly readjusting your work to make sure everything flowed correctly. Now you just set a couple of keyframes and let a computer do it all for you.
You don’t need us to tell you that Street Fighter IV is still awesome or that King of Fighters XII looks great. The fighting game genre is kicking and punching its way through a revival, and we’ve been playing and previewing some of the best sequels of all time. And that’s what concerns us, because lately, we’ve also been playing a lot of BlazBlue.
Summer’s right around the corner (starting tomorrow in fact) and despite the glorious weather that comes with it, this time of year is usually thought of as the unsufferable months until the real games come out this winter. Seriously, we’re getting tired of a hundred games flooding stores between October and December. Spread the love throughout the year, dummies!