Capcom Unity member Reno has just posted a video showing off the highlights of this year's Super Battle Opera. It's a short five minute look into one of the world's biggest fighting tournaments, so if you want to see what it's like, now's your chance. You can find more coverage about the event here, here, and here!
Reno, our man in Japan, took the time to write up a great personal report from his trip to this year's Super Battle Opera chock full of great details and pics.
For anyone that doesn't know, SBO is Japan's national fighting game throwdown, with tournaments on games like Tatsunoko Vs Capcom, SF3: Third Strike, Fate unlimited/codes, and of course SFIV. Unfortunately, since the SBO kids keep a lockdown on all of their videos, Reno's campfire tales of glorious upsets and amazing underdogs is the best way you can get in on the action for the next couple months. Fortunately it's a great read, so check it out.
His report is so in-depth that it comes in 3 separate parts on his Unity blog. Get them here:
If
you aren't keyed into the Japanese arcade scene, Arcadia
Magazine is like the New York Times of arcade
games-it's THE place to go in Japan for amazingly
in-depth and expert coverage of a large amount of titles
(and no, I don't write for them anymore!). They
also sponsor the awesome Super Battle
Opera tournament, so it's safe to say that
these guys know what's up.
SFIV wasn't really in the running for any Game of
the Year awards in the West, since it's "merely" an
arcade game right now, but in the one place on earth
where the game is in wide distribution, it's blowing
everybody away.
Street Fighter IV won:
-GAME OF THE YEAR
-Best
Graphics
-Best Production
-Best
Character (Ryu)
I'm not sure a single game has ever been so dominant.
And just in case you thought SFIV was only popular with the Arcadia editors, here is where I tell you it also won the write-in Reader's Choice voting for best game of the year. Beastly!
