{"id":42162,"date":"2023-12-29T03:54:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T08:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=42162"},"modified":"2023-12-30T19:47:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T00:47:23","slug":"here-comes-a-new-challenger-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/29\/here-comes-a-new-challenger-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Comes a New Challenger (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Oliver Harper\u2019s origin of the iconic \u201cStreet Fighter\u201d video game is just the right rush of nostalgia that gamers and nineties kids just might end up loving. As someone who was notoriously bad at the game but still loved it, \u201cHere Comes a New Challenger\u201d is a wonderful deep dive in to the making of a franchise that impacted pop culture greatly. While some may be put off at the notion of this documentary Harper spends a lot of time on exploring what inspired the initial video game, and shockingly a lot of it is derived from the movies.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s the look at the genesis of the game and how it transformed from a beat em up, in to a fighting game, and then a fighting game that shockingly managed to become a test of skills rather than something you mashed buttons through until you beat it. The way \u201cStreet Fighter\u201d evolved in to a test of skills is a shocking amount of coincidences and happy accidents, all of which gave it a chance to become one of the quintessential games that allowed for fierce and vicious competition. As I mentioned before a lot of fans might have a good time re-visiting the influences of \u201cStreet Fighter\u201d a lot of which derived from cult films like \u201cMad Max,\u201d \u201cThe Warriors,\u201d and \u201cStreets of Fire,\u201d respectively.<\/p>\n

Harper doesn\u2019t just dig in to the cogs and motors but also the influences, the more minute creative aspects, and how the different approach to fighting games that \u201cStreet Fighter II\u201d took birthed an entirely new and massive sub-genre that ushered in the more adrenaline fueled decade of the 90\u2019s. Sadly, \u201cHere Comes a New Challenger\u201d isn\u2019t entirely interested in the entire library of the \u201cStreet Fighter\u201d catalogue as director Harper spends about eighty percent of the film exploring \u201cStreet Fighter II\u201d and its various versions that hit the home market becoming more refined and streamlined.<\/p>\n

While there are peeks in to the other titles in the gallery, including the bizarre game-based-on-the-movie-based-on-the-game \u201cStreet Fighter\u201d fighting game, the film is so much more engaged in celebrating \u201cStreet Fighter II.\u201d Nevertheless \u201cHere Comes a New Challenger\u201d is an entertaining, meticulously constructed, and raucous look at the birth of legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oliver Harper\u2019s origin of the iconic \u201cStreet Fighter\u201d video game is just the right rush of nostalgia that gamers and nineties kids just might end up loving. As someone who was notoriously bad at the game but still loved it, \u201cHere Comes a New Challenger\u201d is a wonderful deep dive in to the making of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[292,469,501,631,1156],"class_list":["post-42162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-documentary","tag-history","tag-indie-film","tag-martial-arts","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42162"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42179,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42162\/revisions\/42179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}