In Neco Drop 2, the biggest surprises I ran into were the Q Mask blocks, which were added puzzle elements not seen in the first Neco Drop. It became pretty clear to me that, even though Neco Drop 2 was an April Fools Day project like its predecessor, the game was providing a glimpse into … Continue reading Lore Drop: Deciphering the Story of the Q Masks in Neco Drop 2 →

Sarai Kurosawa is Ibuki's best friend within the Glade of Ninjas. Sarai and Ibuki train together, go to school together, and are never too far out of each other's reach to contact each other. Sarai has become an interesting footnote in Street Fighter's lore as well - she shares her surname with the name of … Continue reading Ibuki vs Predator →

Easter eggs in video games, once a rare occurrence, have become ubiquitous in modern gaming, so much so that some have even become paid DLC. Something like the Ryu and Chun-Li skins in Fortnite could be considered an Easter egg. A truer example would be the many Street Fighter and Darkstalkers references in Dead Rising. … Continue reading Darkstalkers Are Not Dead! →

Dan Hibiki returns to Street Fighter V as the Dan we all know and love: the buffoonish, self-centered, tactless goof we've all grown up with. Everything about Dan's appearance in the game fits his character. There is absolutely nothing different about him. He's learned nothing, he's still reliant on his friends, and his head remains … Continue reading The Decline of Dan Hibiki →

"There is a kind of darkness that cannot be dispersed with a mere smile." - Rose to Dee Jay, Super Street Fighter IV For someone who has appeared in three different installments of the Street Fighter series, Dee Jay has not gotten very much in the way of character development. His entire story is linear … Continue reading The Dark Depths of Dee Jay →

I knew I was going to write a theory on Thunder Hawk eventually. It's taken me this long to come up with something not just because his story is underutilized, but because the evidence that's there tends to be conflicting. In other words, T. Hawk is a bit hard to pin down. His design and … Continue reading The Final Flight of Thunder Hawk →

There has been some talk over the years from fans over the possibility of a shared Capcom universe, as in the games that Capcom produces are canon to one another. This most likely started with talk in the '90s that characters like Ken and Akuma were in Resident Evil 2 as hidden characters, and speculation … Continue reading The End of Street Fighter →

Glico, the company who makes Pocky, recently released a new campaign for their signature product: a crossover with Street Fighter V. Beginning with Ryu and Chun-Li, Glico would release five different boxes with different paired up characters. The other four are Cody and Lucia, Alex and Rashid, Vega and Cammy, and Juri and Menat. Each … Continue reading Judge, Juri, and Executioner →

The mystery surrounding Ortho K. Gotch was something I have been looking into for some time. Fans of Street Fighter would know he's Dudley's butler, but I was checking to see if there was anything sinister in his background. His unusual name and appearance, along with his status as a static character, certainly brings up … Continue reading Dudley’s Rose-Colored Glasses →

Life is but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and furySignifying nothing.— Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 24–28) The title of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury comes from the … Continue reading Apollo Greed: The Fall of Balrog →