With the Marvel vs Capcom Combating Assortment on the horizon, an entire new technology of gamers will have the ability to hop into an official model of a few of Capcom’s most beloved video games. This contains Marvel vs Capcom 2 which has all kinds of deserves, together with a small number of authentic characters.
These embrace SonSon, the granddaughter of a traditional Capcom character of the identical identify, Ruby Rose the pirate, and the much-adored Amingo the humanoid cactus. These characters had their very own fanbases again within the hayday of Marvel vs Capcom 2, however in keeping with producer Shuhei Matsumoto, their return is not off the playing cards.
“Yeah, there’s at all times a possiblity,” Matsumoto states by way of a translator at Evo 2024. “That is really a fantastic alternative for us, as a result of after we do launch this assortment, there are going to be much more individuals who’ll have the ability to familiarize themselves with the characters who solely appeared in these versus collection. If there are sufficient people who find themselves excited by these characters, then who is aware of? Possibly there’s a probability they may seem in Avenue Fighter 6 or one other preventing recreation. That is one other nice cause to re-release these outdated video games, it will get folks to be taught extra in regards to the IP and the collection. That simply creates a much bigger pool of content material for us to work with.”
So the door’s being left open, which is good, however does this imply that it is best to anticipate Amingo within the subsequent Avenue Fighter 6 season go? It could be value holding your hopium for a bit. Capcom has a historical past of giving out such statements, as do a variety of different corporations. It serves nobody β not the followers nor Capcom itself β to say “no sorry Amingo is lifeless without end”.
Yoshinori Ono infamously stated that if Darkstalkers followers wished to see extra from that collection, they need to purchase Darkstalkers Resurrection in big numbers. Darkstalkers followers clearly did their greatest, however since then the franchise has been completely lifeless (despite Ono’s need to make a brand new one). Following Darkstalkers Ressurection’s poor gross sales, then Capcom preventing recreation supervisor Matt Dahlgren stated to Gamespot “You by no means know what the long run could maintain,” when requested if extra Darkstalkers could be coming. This is not a no… nevertheless it’s a no.
So certain Amingo might come again, however persons are gonna have to essentially present their love with their voices IRL, their fingers hitting keys over the web, and with their wallets. A degree in our favour is that this assortment options a number of video games that preventing recreation diehards love β Marvel vs Capcom 2 included. So if there’s any assortment with an excellent shot at forcing the Ruby Rose gears to show internally, it is this. Fingers crossed, amigos.
Do you assume it is potential we’ll see the unique Marvel vs Capcom 2 characters make a return once more, or are they misplaced to the void? Tell us beneath!
