STREET FIGHTER (2026) WAS A BLAST

My review of Street Fighter (2026). But first, a long-ass preamble.I didn't grow up actively playing video games. I only had sparse encounters. I remember watching other kids at my after school program play Street Fighter 2 on the small TV. I'm sure I watched my older cousins play it, and I might have given it a go in an arcade or two. I'm pretty sure I watched Street Fighter (1994) in my youth, but I didn't remember much from it. That all changed in 2023 when Daniel bought SF6. I watched him play World Tour and was intrigued. I wanted to play too! So I made my own character (who looked like Daniel) and created my own save game. World Tour allowed me to understand each character more deeply. I learned about their personalities, what they liked and didn't like. At first I was nervous about playing. I liked the RPG aspect of it, but I didn't know how to fight! This was when Daniel revealed a side of him I'd never seen before: he started spouting profound advice like a fighting game…