Even though I am a bigger fan of the FATAL FURY franchise than I am of Street Fighter I still recommend this to anime and video game fans.
The quality of animation in this entry is quite stunning. A lot of time and care has been put into making this look like a work of art and some scenes and shots are definitely way past cool.
The sound design is also more sophisticated than most other anime video releases. Stereo separation and ambiance comes through with clarity and more authority than you would imagine. The DVD sound great in 5.1.
The story is stronger than I expected but still not up to the standards of SF2. The bad guy just isn't nasty enough or threatening. And the movie kind of suffers as a result. M Bison is barely glimpsed and he looks kind of different. Gile is completely absent. Vega is gone too.
I wouldn't really say that this entry takes place in the same universe as SF2, which is a shame because it was so much better than the live action movie. Ken and Ryu's friendship is mostly the same, tho that is where any similarity ends. But there is a whole animated series to back SF Alpha up, so if you dig it...there's much more.
The quality of animation in this entry is quite stunning. A lot of time and care has been put into making this look like a work of art and some scenes and shots are definitely way past cool.
The sound design is also more sophisticated than most other anime video releases. Stereo separation and ambiance comes through with clarity and more authority than you would imagine. The DVD sound great in 5.1.
The story is stronger than I expected but still not up to the standards of SF2. The bad guy just isn't nasty enough or threatening. And the movie kind of suffers as a result. M Bison is barely glimpsed and he looks kind of different. Gile is completely absent. Vega is gone too.
I wouldn't really say that this entry takes place in the same universe as SF2, which is a shame because it was so much better than the live action movie. Ken and Ryu's friendship is mostly the same, tho that is where any similarity ends. But there is a whole animated series to back SF Alpha up, so if you dig it...there's much more.