/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8242579
>(Melty Blood, Arcana Heart, Under Night etc etc etc) where the characters don't look like they know anything about realistic or even fantasy fighting
they have magic powers in much the same way blanka is a green monster man who can summon electricity. dhalsim appears to weigh 80 pounds and has rubber bones. and ryu/ken/chun/guile/sagat/bison/fucking everyone can make "energy blasts". there's an interview with the artists where they wondered if the moves looked too stupid, honda's headbutt in particular, but the game was fantasy enough that they decided it was okay
>Capcom in their 90s run grounded their fighting games in fighting, even if the game was scifi or fantasy (Darkstalkers, Marvel etc)
how can you say darkstalkers characters looked like they fight? lilith is the prototypical battle loli and the characters include little red riding hood, a catgirl, a beegirl and a fishman
fighting games are cool because you can put a hitbox and stun duration on anything and it becomes a usable move. capcom knew that from the start. that's why we have street fighter clones instead of yie ar kung fu-likes