Respect the Classics, Man!

I hope everyone had a happy Fourth of July. Even if you're not American and don't celebrate it. Anyway, here's what's been going on in Strider news, recently:

I'd like to apologize for the lack of updates recently. I've gotten really busy at work. Haven't had time to keep up. This will ease off around the time MvC2 comes out on PSN, at which point I'll be doing some needed housecleaning to the LSCM and adding some new content people have emailed me. I just haven't the time to do it right now, sorry.

Updates will continue sporadically as needed, however, so stay tuned.

Posted by Scion on July 8, 2009 21:20 CDT


Ode To No One

Apparently, Capcom's second mystery game was in fact, Resident Evil for the PSP Go. It fits all the criteria. All of them. I had a sinking feeling that the reveal was going to be some kind of nasty reversal, based on a conversation I had with an acquaintance on Monday night. He hadn't heard any of the Capcom hints, and after every hint he kept saying, "Mega Man". I couldn't come up with any reason why it couldn't be one of the four Mega Man franchises, and that's when I realized I'd been set up for a massive sucker-punch.

I guess it was too much to hope that Capcom wouldn't capitalize on one of their money-printing licenses.

Posted by Scion on June 3, 2009 07:03 CDT


No More Until Tuesday?!?!?

One final comment from Capcom-Unity's Twitter:

Capcom Mystery Game #2: all (well, some) secrets will be revealed Tuesday morning! No more hints!

ARGH! Words cannot express the frustration I'm feeling right now. And I'm not the only one. Practically every game Capcom's ever made has been put forth as a possible candidate. The vast majority of people seem to think it's either going to be Onimusha 5 or Strider 3, but somewhere in the back of my mind I'm deathly, deathly afraid that all this hype is just going to add up to another Monster Hunter installment. Or worse yet, that the Marvel vs. Capcom Twitter's secret game and the Mystery Game #2 are one and the same.

Tuesday can't get here fast enough.

Posted by Scion on May 31, 2009 16:27 CDT


More About Capcom's Mystery Game

Jesus. I get sick for a week and a ton of stuff happens. I'm going to tackle each of them in order. First of all, Kousuke Toriumi celebrated his 36th birthday on May 16. He's been the go-to voice actor for Hiryu ever since Marvel vs. Capcom, in case you don't recognize his name. Thanks to Kenny for pointing that out to me via email. Happy birthday, Toriumi-san!

Second, GRiN's Ben Judd did an interview with the Guardian on the 18th, in which they asked him the following question:

Capcom seems to be enthusiastically revisiting its back catalogue at the moment, with Marvel vs Capcom, Megaman and Street Fighter all back in various forms. Are there other classic titles you have your eye on? If so, what and why?


Capcom is all about the classics. Strider, Ghosts N Goblins, Mega Man 2, Trojan, Forgotten Worlds... It just goes on and on. I love them all because they remind me of where gaming came from. A time where games weren't these massive Hollywood-esque productions but rather a nice getaway from the hardships of reality. Where pressing a button just made your character leap over a pit fall... or swing over a pit fall depending on the game...

The fact that the first Capcom IP out of Judd's mouth was Strider is kinda cool, if nothing else.

Finally, there's been a lot of talk over on the Capcom-Unity boards about Capcom's two mystery games, recently. The first game has been revealed to be Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, thanks to Nintendo Power, but the identity of the second is still a mystery. They've been more than industrious in compiling hints from the board and from Capcom-Unity's Twitter:

I am about to go out of my mind here. On the one hand, my gut screams, "it's Strider!" and on the other I'm going, "Wait... could be Darkstalkers. Or Final Fight. Or Power Stone." You guys know which one I'm hoping for, but until E3 hits, we won't know for sure.

UPDATE 05/27/09: Forgot to add the bit about Capcom Japan.
UPDATE 05/28/09: Added another hint from the Twitter. Also, Christian Svensson issued a retraction of sorts:

Update... and apologies.

The thing I thought was the other game we were announcing is in fact, not being announced at E3 (the plan changed, it's being announced later). So that las game is not something you know anything about and hopefully, it will be a complete surprise. So I was wrong. You may resume speculation/your frenzy of excitement.

Folks, we have now officially entered Superman film sequel territory. This ranks up there with Bryan Singer's "not officially not involved" statement.

Posted by Scion on May 27, 2009 13:36 CDT


Capcom @ E3 2009

Thomas Leenders has brought it to my attention that yesterday on Capcom-Unity, Capcom announced the games they will be focusing on in their 5,000 sq. ft. E3 booth. And here's the list:

...plus games from Capcom's mobile group, Capcom Interactive.

As you can see, one of the games is announcement only, BUT... one is PLAYABLE. Interesting.

UPDATE 05/11/09: Removed the bit about the BGM. It was an artifact of the previous day's entry. Sorry for any confusion, I was in a hurry.

Posted by Scion on May 7, 2009 16:44 CDT


MvsC2 on PSN and XBLA!

I'm sure you've heard about this by now. Three days ago, Christian Svensson officially announced that Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 is being released to PSN and XBLA, over on Capcom-Unity. This came after months of denying that such a thing would be possible due to "rights issues" with Marvel, but it was not entirely unexpected, because the ESRB rated it for the PS3 and the 360 back in October.

Here's the DL on the upcoming release:

The choice of characters is interesting, and I'm not the only one who thinks so. As Thomas Leenders wrote to me in an email:

When I first heard that I had a "one of these things is not like the other" moment. Granted, all 6 characters are iconic in their own way, but, let's face it, all of the others besides Hiryu have been seen and heard of a lot more lately, what between the forthcoming and high grossing marvel films of all three of their characters, and SFIV and Chun li's crappy feature film that wasn't high grossing.

I think Thomas is right on the money with this one. The character in the demo with the lowest profile... is our boy Hiryu. He's only popular within the Vs. series itself. It's possible that Capcom's trying to raise his profile and pique interest.

Capcom's going to announce two more titles at E3. Could a new Strider be among them? It seems likely. We'll see.

Posted by Scion on April 30, 2009 10:50 CDT


Missing Section

Somehow, in updating the LSCM to 4.0, I forgot to include a link to the Run Saber review. That's now corrected. Nothing new to speak of there, but it's accessible again.

Thanks for bringing that to my attention, Rob.

Posted by Scion on April 3, 2009 12:09 CDT


Stride Or Die

The guys over at Fighters Evolution have put up a Strider Hiryu tribute video entitled "Stride Or Die", featuring "combos, glitches, strategies and almost everything to do with Strider Hiryu." It's exclusively concerned with the Vs. series' version of Hiryu, but it's still awesome.

Take a look:

Posted by Scion on March 26, 2009 13:24 CDT


Not Forgotten

Man, Destructoid has been all about the Strider love, recently. This time, Namakubi's Island of Forgotten Games blog reviews Strider 2 as part of his "Ninja Month", and you can tell he just absolutely ADORED the game. Follow the link and give it a read.

Posted by Scion on March 22, 2009 20:36 CDT


Shoutouts and Rumbles

Coupla quick tidbits here...

I'm out. As LadyMaverick81 would say, "On the fly, then!"

Posted by Scion on March 20, 2009 19:47 CDT


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