{"id":20428,"date":"2020-09-11T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T00:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20428"},"modified":"2020-08-22T13:16:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T13:16:53","slug":"street-fighter-world-warrior-encyclopedia-arcade-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/11\/street-fighter-world-warrior-encyclopedia-arcade-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Fighter World Warrior Encyclopedia: Arcade Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Udon Entertainment publishes a lot of artbooks and comics featuring Capcom characters, especially ones from the Street Fighter series.\u00a0 I was lucky enough to get a review copy of one of their newest artbooks, the Street Fighter World Warrior Encyclopedia: Arcade Edition!\u00a0 It features information and artwork of every character in the series!\u00a0 So let\u2019s take a look at it!\u00a0 Plus a surprise bonus!<\/p>\n

Here’s a picture of the front of the book.\u00a0 It\u2019s a very nice, full color, hardcover book.<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s the back of the book.\u00a0 The back is a bit misleading because when I first saw it, I thought, \u201cIs that all the characters in this book?\u201d\u00a0 Oh no, no, no.\u00a0 Pretty much EVERYONE is in here!<\/p>\n

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So every character is in this book in alphabetical order.\u00a0 The first page has some info about the character, backstory, moves, what games they were in, etc.\u00a0 And the next page has a full page color art of that character.\u00a0 Some characters, like Ken and Ryu, get four pages instead of two.\u00a0 There\u2019s a surprising amount of Final Fight characters here as well!\u00a0 We\u2019ll look at a couple of pages that have my favorite Street Fighter characters.<\/p>\n

When I was a teen and Street Fighter 2 was big in arcades, I was horrible at it, but my friend was very good and I could never beat him.\u00a0 But when Super Street Fighter 2 came out, it introduced four new characters, one of them being Cammy.\u00a0 When we first played it, I picked her because I liked her hat.\u00a0 And I actually won against my friend while playing as her!\u00a0 Granted, I\u2019m sure it\u2019s because he wasn\u2019t used to dealing with a new character yet.\u00a0 But hey, just let me have my victory, OK?\u00a0 So from then on, I decided Cammy would be my favorite character.<\/p>\n

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Another character I like is Dan.\u00a0 He\u2019s silly and one of the first examples of a \u2018joke character.\u2019\u00a0 He wears a pink gi and his puny fireball \u2018hadoken\u2019 attack only goes a few inches in front of him, and he taunts a lot.\u00a0 And he also loses a lot.<\/p>\n

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The last few pages of the book feature characters that aren\u2019t necessarily in the games, but are related to the main characters in some way or another.\u00a0 And that\u2019s pretty much the book.\u00a0 If you\u2019re a Street Fighter fan, I recommend picking this up before it sells out.\u00a0 The art is so good it kind of makes me want to look at getting other Udon books, too!<\/p>\n

Bonus: Free Comic Book Day Street Fighter #100: Ryu Vs. Chun-Li<\/strong><\/p>\n

Packed in the box with the artbook, Udon threw in this comic book so I\u2019ll review it, too.\u00a0 It says it\u2019s for Free Comic Book Day.\u00a0 So how did they handle that this year with COVID and all?\u00a0 My brother said that comic shops would handle it in different ways, but the Internet didn\u2019t give a clear answer either.\u00a0 At any rate, this was probably the only Free Comic Book Day issue I would\u2019ve been interested in, so I\u2019m glad they threw it in there.<\/p>\n

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So the comic is about a party that Ken throws and invites a lot of Street Fighters (but not Cammy, didn\u2019t see her anyway).\u00a0 But then some trouble happens and Ryu and Chun-Li fight for a bit.\u00a0 It probably starts the next story arc of the comic, but the end of this issue wraps up nicely and they keep partying.\u00a0 It\u2019s a good freebie if you can get it, I suppose.\u00a0 Age-wise I’d say both books are best for teens because some of the female characters wear revealing outfits.\u00a0 But if you’re OK with your kids playing the games, they’ll be OK with the books, too.\u00a0 Next year for Free Comic Book Day, they should do Cammy vs. Dan!<\/p>\n

So who are your favorite Street Fighter characters?\u00a0 Let me know in the comments section.\u00a0 My favorites are Cammy, Dan, Chun-Li, Juni, Juli, Laura, R. Mika, and Lucia.\u00a0 And that\u2019s all for now!\u00a0 Later!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Udon Entertainment publishes a lot of artbooks and comics featuring Capcom characters, especially ones from the Street Fighter series.\u00a0 I was lucky enough to get a review copy of one of their newest artbooks, the Street Fighter World Warrior Encyclopedia: Arcade Edition!\u00a0 It features information and artwork of every character in the series!\u00a0 So let\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20430,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20428\/revisions\/20430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}