Guest Feature: Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike

This column is a guest author feature, written by a friend of the site whose work I am thrilled to host at Retro XP. This entry is from Ashley Schofield, author of VA-11 Hall-A: Design Works. Previous entries in this series can be found through this link.I'm going to spend the process of drafting this piece seeing how long I can go before talking about EVO Moment 37. Let’s find out together.Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike is not the greatest fighting game ever made, nor a perfect one. It’s flawed in the ways any game can be. A fair few characters are worlds away from being competitively viable. I’m aware when I pick Q that I am actively making my life much harder for the sake of love; Chun-Li and Yun are absolute monsters, the best characters in the game without question — though others like Ken, Akuma and Makoto don’t trail far behind. There are several completely real unblockable setups that you kinda just have to know about and practice defending against. But I do think there is one…