Fighting games are no strangers to cross-overs. Super Smash Bros. has arguably the best guest list, with dozens of characters from the gaming landscape appearing on its roster, but games like Mortal Kombat, with its list of M-rated stars, Street Fighter, and Tekken have all dabbled in the past.
One of the biggest recent cross-overs features Terry and Mai from Fatal Fury joining Street Fighter 6, with Chun-Li and Ryu heading in the other direction, into City of the Wolves.
Playing Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves for a preview was a throwback to the golden age of fighting games.
At Tokyo Game Show this year, we spoke to Fatal Fury veteran and City of the Wolves producer Yasuyuki Oda, who shared more about the Capcom collaboration and who his dream characters would be.
During my interview with Oda-san, I asked him to choose his ideal guest fighter for Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, to which his translator instantly replied, "You don't want to know." Oda-san then rattled off a list of famous names that he'd clearly been thinking about for a long time.
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