Street Fighter 6

> Learn controls and practice for 10 hours.
> Get repeatedly kicked by hot women.
10/10 would like to get crushed again

This is the best Street Fighter game I've played in years. But also the worst.
The core game feels great and Arcade along with World Tour mode is some top-notch single-player content which really helps you get to grips with the mechanics and offers a fair amount of customisation. I don't play much in the way of online matches but the Battle Hub is a fun area that has retro Capcom arcades on rotation and some great Giant Attack events along with AI-generated opponents. Overall great stuff and lots of value, love it.
BUT
The downside is the infection of gross (but increasingly common) money-grubbing tactics the game employs. It's constantly asking you to let its greasy little fingers into your bank account "just one more time" with regular limited-time battle passes, and you have to buy their custom currency packages in order to purchase new characters and costumes which forces you to overpay. Therefore you always have some money just sitting in the game, enticing you to buy more currency in a futile attempt to use it up. I want to support this game by buying DLC, but I can't bring myself to reward Capcom for this behaviour so my wallet has remained sadly closed (I really want to play as Terry though!). And no, I don't fancy buying a character pass for ~£30 to play one or two characters either, thank you.
"Luckily", outside of additional characters the post-launch content has been dire, mostly consisting of custom-character accessories which nobody(?) wants. Since launch there has only been one costume set released as DLC as of this review.
If you can, wait for the SF6 Final Hyper Deluxe Arcade edition once all the content has been released and bundled together. Otherwise you're just another potential mark/whale to Capcom.

Great game! The only downside is: You cant unlock new characters by playing the game, only buying it.

I know it was ever like this but it is about time for it to change.

Capcom needs to monetize with cosmetic only.

There is no official "big brother mode", but a random person I matched against beat the crap out of me and then spent a solid 2 hours just rematching and doing basic moves until I learned to block. I must have went 60-0 against this Akuma but learned the basics in the process and can now hadouken consistently. Talk about welcoming community.

Street Fighter is the quintessential fighting game. Every major fighting game term applies here, except for those related to team battles. The satisfaction of reading an opponent’s move and punishing their mistakes is unparalleled. The game doesn’t rely on slowdown mechanics because it gives you the sense that you’ve truly earned your counters.

While the overall presentation isn’t my favorite, the game mechanics are so deep that Street Fighter has become my favorite fighting game. Every move serves a purpose, and mastering Street Fighter will make you a stronger player. The combo timings can be challenging, especially if you’re coming from a game like Guilty Gear, where the timings are lenient. I found the combo timings in Street Fighter difficult at first, but the beauty of this game is that combos aren’t everything.

Even if you miss combo timings, you can still win rounds and enjoy the game. Reading your opponent and understanding their strategies is much more rewarding. The game's pace is slower than many anime fighters, which require a lot more rapid decision-making. In Street Fighter, the slower pace means there’s more emphasis on strategic thinking during neutral play.

Wins in Street Fighter are deeply satisfying, more so than in many other fighting games I’ve tried. I highly recommend giving it a try!

Tired of your teammates throwing your comp games? Play Street Fighter 6
Tired of spin-botting cheaters? Play Street Fighter 6
Tired of Overwatch? Play Street Fighter 6
Even if you're new to the genre, there are plenty of ways to make this game still enjoyable. Absolutely worth it.

I may be a Tekken fan but objectively speaking this game is as perfect as fighter can possibly get – online matches are found in seconds if not milliseconds and run like clockwork, controls feel intuitive and fluid, ingame tutorial actually explains the basics of fighting games like frame data, characters and environments look lively, vibrant and most importantly discernible, even losing in SF6 doesn’t feel as bad as in other FGs to me because of everlasting feel-good vibe permeating the game. It’s a perfect entry point for anyone even remotely interested in this genre.