With the Marvel vs Capcom Preventing Assortment on the horizon, a complete new era of gamers will be capable 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 collection of unique characters.
These embrace SonSon, the granddaughter of a traditional Capcom character of the identical title, 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 accordance with producer Shuhei Matsumoto, their return is not off the playing cards.
“Yeah, there’s all the time the possiblity,” Matsumoto states through a translator at Evo 2024. “That is truly an excellent alternative for us, as a result of after we do launch this assortment, there are going to be much more individuals who’ll be capable to familiarize themselves with the characters who solely appeared in these versus sequence. If there are sufficient people who find themselves focused on these characters, then who is aware of? Perhaps there’s a probability they might seem in Road Fighter 6 or one other combating sport. That is one other nice cause to re-release these outdated video games, it will get folks to be taught extra in regards to the IP and the sequence. That simply creates an even 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 you must anticipate Amingo within the subsequent Road Fighter 6 season cross? It is perhaps 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 — not the followers nor Capcom itself — to say “no sorry Amingo is lifeless without end”.
Yoshinori Ono infamously stated that if Darkstalkers followers needed to see extra from that sequence, they need to purchase Darkstalkers Resurrection in large numbers. Darkstalkers followers clearly did their greatest, however since then the franchise has been completely lifeless (regardless of Ono’s want to make a brand new one). Following Darkstalkers Ressurection’s poor gross sales, then Capcom combating sport supervisor Matt Dahlgren stated to Gamespot “You by no means know what the longer term might maintain,” when requested if extra Darkstalkers could be coming. This is not a no… nevertheless it’s a no.
So certain Amingo may come again, however persons are gonna have to actually 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 combating sport diehards love — Marvel vs Capcom 2 included. So if there’s any assortment with a great shot at forcing the Ruby Rose gears to show internally, it is this. Fingers crossed, amigos.
Do you assume it is doable we’ll see the unique Marvel vs Capcom 2 characters make a return once more, or are they misplaced to the void? Tell us under!
