A new Virtua Fighter game titled Virtua Fighter Crossroads is in development. Early footage was shown at the 2024 Game Awards under the name New Virtua Fighter Project. A leaked snippet of a longer trailer has appeared online, including gameplay and developer commentary from Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio. The commentary emphasizes that Virtua Fighter can be enjoyed with simple controls using three buttons: punch, kick, and guard. The team aims to preserve intuitive play while brushing up and reexamining the game from the ground up. The leaked gameplay suggests changes to how combos may work, prompting interest in the updated combo system.
"People tend to think of Virtua Fighter as a unique and complex game, but my first impression was completely different. There weren't any difficult commands-it was a game you could enjoy with simple controls using just three buttons: punch, kick, and guard...We wanted to preserve that ability to play through intuitive controls alone, so while keeping that intact, this time we're brushing everything up and reexamining the game from the ground up."
"The actual gameplay footage could conceivably be faked, but the thing that's making me think this is the real deal is the interspersed footage of the RGG Studio devs talking about the game. Won't be much use to you if you don't speak Japanese, but thankfully, Gematsu has translated the video."
"The leaked trailer somehow found its way onto in the very early hours of May 21, and while I understand why people are hesitant to assume otherwise, it looks very legitimate. This is obviously a fragment of a much longer trailer, but there's a lot we can pull from what's on offer, including the game's full title: Virtua Fighter Crossroads."
"Inputs in Virtua Fighter have always been less complicated than those in its contemporaries, so I'm interested to see how RGG is "reexamining" the combo system in this context. Based on the gameplay in the leak, it also seems like Virtua Fighter Crossroads"
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