Street Fighter 6

Genuine contender for 2023 game of the year. One of the best fighting games of all times, whether as a singleplayer experience or an exclusively-online one.

Street Fighter VI is like... fine but... I dunno man I think the game is too centralized on how drive rush works? Drive rush is practically the only thing anyone does in a match and contributes to so much lame shit in both the combo game and neutral. Not to mention a lot of other annoying things like how overly strong throws are or the way the game will just eat your inputs. I think there's some merit in a fighting game based around meter, but drive serves to be more lame than interesting.

Beautiful and fun - and loads better than its predecessor - SF6 seems to be a well-balanced and entertaining addition to the series. I enjoyed playing through all the non-DLC characters' stories and watching competitive matches during EVO but I won't be playing the much more and the clunky open world single player experience was pretty dull. Still, a step back in the right direction!