There is a non-zero chance I bear some major responsibility for both this game gaining any repute whatsoever in America and being considered overrated by some today. I caught it for sale used at a Gamestop (it might've been the same trip where I got God Hand) and spammed the shit out of webms of it like, ten years ago, enough that I randomly ego-searched back then and saw somebody made an archive of them on a plaintext site. My CMV has an overall modest but not insignificant number of over 40k views with it leading to a community leader approaching me and saying I might have helped a lot of people understand its basic combo theory and helped them get into the game, which I found extremely flattering, and makes it one of the best things I probably did with my time in fighting games, despite being addicted to hard drugs at the time, and the video itself being a subnautical mess where I ran OBS with PCSX2 on an i3 laptop, which in turn made it run as if the system was experiencing a migraine so severe that the whirring of the fan might as well have been a man groaning in pain. To this day I have no idea how it garnered as many views as it did.

The guy still hits me up from time to time, and I think he wants me to be a part of the community, but I think I'm a textbook scrub, I just drift from game to game exploring what's probably only just beneath entry-level shit until it stops working and then I quit or look for another game. I've had stints with all sorts of games but very few that I stuck with long enough to feel like I have any voice worth contributing to the community, standouts being games like SF Alpha 3 and Samsho 2.

Please bear with my blogpost, I wanted an excuse to bring up this game in particular because I like it, and I'm kinda drunk.