Yoshinori Ono continues to make the interview rounds. This time he talked it up with Kotaku about Street Fighter X Tekken and why is it being made instead a new Darkstalkers. Here’s some of Ono’s quotes.
On if the game will play like Tekken or Street Fighter:
“Ultimately what we are heading for is a Street Fighter game, so everyone will have Street Fighter-esque moves. The Tekken characters will be entering the Street Fighter world, so they will play like Street Fighter characters but their moves will be Tekken style.”How he fits Tekken Characters into the Street Fighter world:
“When I was going through all of these moves for Nina I thought ‘I’ve seen this somewhere before,” he said. “It boiled down to Darkstalkers. In Darkstalkers we have chain combos: Light, light, medium, medium, hard, hard. That is a Capcom version of that rhythmic input command.We see great possibilities in these two mixing up. In that same sense, like how chain combos are used to play Tekken, we’ll bring back Nina and Law’s (If law is in the game) into Street Fighter X Tekken, incorporating that chain combo style.”
On why we are getting Street Fighter X Tekken instead of Darkstalkers:
“We decided to bring it up to our management but we thought the discussion was going to go on forever. We were expecting them to have a long discussion over years and years, but as soon as they had a one high management meeting together, they just stood up and shook hands two seconds after the meeting. That was the moment the decision to make this game was made. I was a bit shocked.We have a weekly meeting with (Capcom’s Keiji) Inafune. I bring Darkstalkers up every week and Inafune has still yet to approve it… but I’m going to continue doing it.”
And finally:
“Street Fighter X Tekken is part of a grand scheme of making fighting games the biggest genre of all time.”
[Kotaku]
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