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I used to play fighting games growing up but me and my friends were what the Internet elite would refer to as button mashers. If the truth be told, I have never really figured out how to play fighting games. So when games come out like Capcom vs SNK EO which promises to have more casual friendly control schemes I am the first one to try them out. Sadly they never really work.

With Super Smash Bros Nintendo reinvented the genre and made it accessible to a wider audience. Finally I could pull off all the moves in a fighting game, yay! But the Smash Bros games created their own sub-genre and never had much influence on the rest of the genre.

Why am I giving you this lengthy recap of my history with fighting games you wonder? Well I have been playing Tatsunoko vs Capcom and for the first time a “traditional” fighting game has successfully adopted Nintendo Smash Bros controls. And they have done it without compromising the traditional gameplay. It works marvelously and I am finally I am able to enjoy a good fighter.

Of course if you want to you can switch out the Wiimote-Nunchuck combo for the classic controller and play it the old school way (some might argue the way it’s supposed to be played). Maybe more importantly this means a more casual fighting gamer like me can battle it out against an old street fighter player and we can both be pulling of combos left and right.