A few years ago, Japanese player Nomura released a handful of oldschool SF2 series combovids through a localized p2p filesharing service called WinNY. Q80Warlock recently uploaded his HSF2 installment for everyone to enjoy.
Go take a look: Nomura’s HSF2 Combo Video
While it doesn’t contain anything groundbreaking, he does do a great job of covering the unique capabilities of each character’s various modes. Here are a few highlights from my perspective:
0:27 CE-Ryu doing his best Guile impression with two fireballs in a jump-in combo.
1:35 ST-O.Chun Li is such a bully here. Not only does she link nonmeaty low forward into far standing fierce, but she cancels it into a fireball. None of that looks fair. No respect for the law whatsoever.
2:31 CE-Guile links c.MK into s.LK then CPS1 chains it into c.MP for the Sonic Boom finisher. Most of his other Guile stuff is fairly generic but this one has a dope rhythm to it.
3:12 ST-O.Fei Long shows us another example of why canceling far standing fierce is so cheap.
3:35 CE-Sagat fires off Tiger Shots like a machine gun. Midscreen? Nonmeaty? Too manly.
3:44 ST-O.Sagat is just pushing random buttons at this point.
4:08 ST-Bison getting stylish with midscreen jump back roundhouse.
Nomura even includes a few ST concept combos using infinite meter to demonstrate their juggle limits, and some funny clips of throws performed against projectiles. However, the video does seem slightly outdated now and lacks any interesting/advanced setups to push boundaries. No effort went into fancy editing so there’s nothing to judge there. For these reasons, it doesn’t quite make it into must-see territory, but its content is definitely way above average.
I like this video except for the infinite meter juggle limits.. I just kind of feel like after all the cool stuff such as the o chun-li combo I just don’t really care… but its a good video still.
Yeah, that’s the most common complaint about this video. Those infinite meter combos do seem a little bit out of place and i only really like the Ryu one, but they don’t bother me. At least he tries to be creative with it instead of doing the same thing with every character.