Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All Stars

Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All Stars is a video game that consists of 3 releases
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Capcom announces a new entry into their famous crossover "VS" series of games. This time the Capcom favorites do battle with characters from the famous Japanese animation house Tatsunoko Productions.

Overview

Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All Stars is a fighting game developed by Capcom. It is known that like the previous Capcom developed "VS" games it remains in 2D, and offers tag team based gameplay. Unlike the previous VS games, TvC uses a four-button setup compared to six buttons with three buttons as light, medium, and heavy attacks (no punch or kick variety) along with the fourth button for tags and assists. Using variations of those buttons allow for more technical abilities from previous VS games like the double team super move, assists, advanced block, and mega crashes. The standard array of modes like most fighting games are here with a 7-stage arcade mode against the computer A.I., versus mode with up to two players, training mode, Wii-exclusive mini-games that utilize the Wii Remote, and an in-game shop where you spend Zennies to buy four more characters, stages, background music, and art for the game. A TvC branded arcade stick is also available at Japan for release for the pure fighting game experience even though WiiMote/Nunchuk combo, Classic Controller, and the GameCube controller also work. Other arcade sticks can also work like the Hori Wii-specific arcade stick and converters to use other sticks from other systems.

In May 2009 the June issue of NIntendo Power leaked revealing that TvC would also be coming to the US. In the article Ryota Niitsuma the producer of the game talked about how the game will be renamed Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars for its US release that new features and characters will be in the US release also talking about an online mode. Some days later Capcom confirmed the news on their blog saying that it was one of their two big mystery announcements for E3 2009. Some days later also on their blog Capcom confirmed that the game would be coming out in Euope.

A press release issued by Capcom on June 2 confirmed the aforementioned online play and revealed that five new characters would be included in the Western release. Due to copyright reasons, one Tatsunoko character has been removed from the roster ( Hakushon Daimaou). However, the next day Capcom replaced this press release with a much more ambiguous one, claiming the previous release was "incorrect."
 
In September, it was announced that Ultimate All-Stars would receive a Japanese release, officially making it a revision of Cross Generation of Heroes instead of simply a localization. Famitsu soon after revealed the first new character: Tekkaman Blade. 
 
The Japanese website was updated soon after Tekkaman Blade's reveal, but curious visitors discovered that careless coding had revealed the remainder of the roster: Joe the Condor (Science Ninja Team Gatchaman), Yatterman-2 (Yatterman), Frank West (Dead Rising) and Zero (Mega Man X or Mega Man Zero). The website was reworked to remove the offending coding and Capcom has issued a "no comment" regarding the news, but with Frank's reveal at TGS 2009, many believe the leak to be true.
 
The game will release on the same week in all regions: January 26, 2010 in North America, January 28, 2010 in Japan, and January 29, 2010 in Europe.

Gameplay

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  • How the translation from 6 attack buttons to 3 works
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  • Super Jumps
TvsC allows the player to do a special super jump along with the double and triple jumps the characters can do, the super jump propels your character to a height even greater than the triple jump almost instantaneously, these super jumps are mainly for evading non defendable super attacks at close range and are executed by doing down and then up.

  • The different indicators
There are two distinct bars in TvsC, a heath bar and a super bar. The health bar has actually 2 colors, yellow the actual life bar and red the "energy" bar. If a character is damaged and the player decides to switch the character on screen the hurt character that is on hold will slowly recover the energy zone of his heath zone with actual health, most of the attacks do less energy damage than health damage. The red zone is also used for"baroque" which is detailed somewhat further on.
The second indicator bar in the game is the super bar that stocks up up to 5 units of it and that fills when you do or receive damage.

  • Assists an tag gameplay
The fourth button used in TvsC is the assist button, by pressing it once the character that is on the "bench" will pop up and perform a special attack. By pressing the assist and back button on the same time the two characters will switch places on the battle field the character that now is on the bench slowly regaining its red energy.

  • Push Blocks and counters
When a opponent is about to hit you and you press attack towards your character will perform a "push block". A push block is a move that not only blocks the enemies attack put also stuns them for a short period giving the player the opportunity to counter attack without risk.

  • Defending
In TvT you hold the opposite direction of your opponent to defend attacks but you will still receive some chip damage with a certain number of the attacks and especially with the supers. It is also possible to defend whilst airborne.

  • Dashing
TvT lets the player dash for a small distances to close up the gap between the player and the opponent by double tapping the direction in which the player wants to dash. Aerial dashing is also possible.

  • Baroque (temp power boost)
Baroque is a technique that implies of hitting the tag and one of the attack buttons at the same time, if done correctly the player's red energy will be drained and depending on the amount of red energy sacrificed by the player the length of the magnitude of the power boost will be altered.

  • Mega Clash
By pressing the 3 attack buttons and the tag button it is possible to trigger a mega clash, a mega clash can be executed whilst being combod on and send the opponent off to the other side of the screen. The mega clash move does however consume one bar of the super meter.

  • Special attacks and their variations
Special attacks are executed by doing a d-pad motion followed by the light, medium or heavy attack button. However depending on which of the three attack buttons you used for to end your special attack with the special attack will vary in speed, direction, or force. An example is Ryu's shoryuken his iconic jumping uppercut, when finishing it with the light attack button the animation will charge quick and his uppercut will reach about the same height that it does in the Street Fighter series, if however the player ends the same special attack with the heavy attack Ryu's shoryuken will take somewhat longer to charge but will reach twice the height of the light shoryuken. Most of the special attacks in TvsC are variable.

  • Super attacks
Ryu doing his Super projectile attack
Ryu doing his Super projectile attack
Super attacks are based upon the characters special attacks and consume one to three units of the super attack meter depending of the attack, they are performed by doing the special attack its D-pad code and ending it with two attack buttons. Super attacks come in three different types:
Projectile: Projectile Supers usually are blockable and do the less damage Zone: Zone supers like projectile supers are still blockable but do somewhat more damage. Hit: Hit supers require the player to time it so that it hit the opponent the first second. if missed the super will have failed. Hit supers do the most damage.
Some of the supers can be executed whilst the character is airborne.



Controls

There are 4 different control types that you can choose from to play TvsC some more focused on accessibility while others on technique. These different control types are:
  • Wii Remote only
  • Wii remote plus nunchuck
  • Gamecube controller
  • Classic controller/arcade joystick


Mini games

Tatsunoko VS Capcom comes with a set of mini games, one different game for every character of the game making the number of mini games 22 exclusive to the Wii version of the game. Most of the mini games use the wii remote its motion sensor as input devise and the game will not allow you to play them with a classic controller or with the nunchuk. All of the mini games can be played with 4 players, most of them simultaneously. A small number of the mini games will be unlocked from the start but most of them will have to be bought from the in game shop. By playing the different minigames you unlock new items to buy in the shops and gain actual Zennies to spend there. The different mini games are:

Tatsunoko Minigames:


  • Ken the Eagle (initially unlocked)
Avoid the good guys
Avoid the good guys
Ken's mini game is a shooting gallery, you shoot using the A button and reload by pointing the Wii remote's IR pointer outside of the screen and shoot. On screen will be 2 rows of pods out of these pods will pop enemies and some of the playable characters whenever you hit one of the enemies you get 500 points but when you hit one of the playable characters you will get minus 500 points. After a while a small flying creature from the Science Ninja Team Gatchaman series will start to fly around on screen shooting him will grand you 2000 points. Once shot a new area behind the rear row will open, in there will be the antagonist of the series running around, when ever shot you gain 1000 points. The player with the most points at the end of the round wins.

  • Casshan (initially unlocked)
Casshan's mini game is a dog race in which by pressing the A button as fast as possible your dog will run faster up to 200 KM/H (Which converts to FAST in miles) the first player whose dog reaches the finish wins.

  • Tekkaman (initially unlocked)
Tekkaman is standing on his flying pod/mecha and you will have to make it go as fast as possible on a runway by shaking the Wii remote as fast as possible for a short period than when his pod gets at a certain point the runway its color will change and that is the cue to press the B button. If done correctly Tekkaman will throw his lance in a boomerang like fashion destroying enemies with it, the faster the pod went when he launched his lance the more enemies will die. The winner is the one who will have killed the most enemies.

  • Karas (500 Zennies)
This mini game is somewhat comparable to Capcom's Soki mini game, during 15 seconds ghostly enemies will advance towards Karas the play will have to slash them all by doing a slashing motion with the Wii remote, the player who managed to slash the most enemies wins the round.


Capcom Minigames:


  • Ryu (initially unlocked)
Ryu's mini game consist of throwing fireballs at objects, the fireballs are thrown by doing a stabbing motion with the wii remote. On the left hand side of the screen is a meter that fluctuates at variable speeds, the goal is the launch the fireball when the meter is at its top, the higher the meter the stronger the fire ball. Once an object destroyed another object will take its place. The object Ryu has to destroy vary from tree logs to submarines. The player who destroyed the most objects with the most powerful fire ball wins.

  • Chun-li (initially unlocked)
In Chun-Li's mini game you mash the A button as fast as possible to make Chun-Li do her lighting kick on a rock to sculpt a stone ryu out of it, the player who sculpted the most statues wins.

  • Batsu Ichimonji (initially unlocked)
Batsu's mini game is a memory game that in order to play you hold the Wii remote like a classic NES controller. A code will appear on screen (made out of the four direction of the D-pad and the 1 and 2 button of the Wii remote) and it is up to you to copy it as fast as possible before the time runs out, did you happen to put in the wrong code or did not manage to input the code in time you lose one of your tree lives. The faster you input the code the more point you earn. As the game progresses the codes get longer reaching up to 6 digits. The player with the most points wins.

  • Morigan Aensland (500 Zennies)
Morrigan will have (?) grabbed around the waist and its your goal to fly Morrigan as high up possible and to then slam (?) on a taget on the ground. You fly Morrigan by pressing "A" when a circle that comes from the left hits a bar on the right somewhat like a rhythm game. After a certain time Morrigan will dive towards the ground preparing to slam (?) on the target in order to hit the target you will have to time a button press. The score will be determined by the height Morrigan rose and if the target was hit. The player with the highest score wins the game.

  • Soki (500 Zennies)
 object will be thrown at Soki and it is up to you to wing the wii remote when the object is just about to hit him to slash your sword at it, the player who managed to destroy the most objects wins.

Characters

Tatsunoko


Capcom
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Original US Release Jan. 26, 2010
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Aliases Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes
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