Super Street Pok?mon 2: Hyper Edition
So someone apparently turned Pok?mon into a 2-D, Street Fighter-esque fighting game, and it’s kind of awesome. The results are above; the menus and backgrounds might be a little plain (although I do like Pikachu running around in the grasslands stage) but the character animations are gorgeous, and the game comes complete with support characters, special moves and ultra combos. If you’re interested, it looks like you can download the game here, and there’s a tutorial on YouTube for the game here. How Nintendo didn’t come up with this idea themselves I’ll never know. (Via Kotaku)
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