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So Very Common.
Sometimes it's very difficult, no matter how you try to frame it in your head, to get excited for re-releases of certain retro fighting games. It's a genre that's ripe for the picking, absolutely stuffed full of crackers to be revisited but, for every delightful return to the likes of Samurai Shodown 2, Guilty Gear, or Street Fighter, you're gonna end up with something that has no real reason to be revived at all. Something like SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos.
A product of what's known as SNK's 'dark period', what you've got here is an arcade game that looks the part, sounds the part, and has a roster that should be kicking ass and taking all the names. However, as nicely as it's presented — and a quick glance at these screenshots still makes us want to go on a retro-fighter bender — it's just...not very good, and it never was.
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