With the Marvel vs Capcom Combating Assortment on the horizon, a complete new era of gamers will be capable of 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 basic 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 line with producer Shuhei Matsumoto, their return is not off the playing cards.
“Yeah, there’s all the time a possiblity,” Matsumoto states through a translator at Evo 2024. “That is truly an excellent alternative for us, as a result of once we do launch this assortment, there are going to be much more individuals who’ll be capable of familiarize themselves with the characters who solely appeared in these versus sequence. If there are sufficient people who find themselves fascinated with these characters, then who is aware of? Perhaps there’s a probability they may seem in Road Fighter 6 or one other combating sport. That is one other nice purpose to re-release these previous video games, it will get folks to be taught extra concerning 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 sweet, however does this imply that you need to anticipate Amingo within the subsequent Road Fighter 6 season cross? It is likely to 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 — not the followers nor Capcom itself — to say “no sorry Amingo is useless endlessly”.
Yoshinori Ono infamously mentioned that if Darkstalkers followers needed to see extra from that sequence, they need to purchase Darkstalkers Resurrection in big numbers. Darkstalkers followers clearly did their greatest, however since then the franchise has been completely useless (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 mentioned 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… but it surely’s a no.
So positive Amingo may come again, however individuals are gonna have to actually present their love with their voices IRL, their fingers hitting keys over the web, and with their wallets. Some extent 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 superb shot at forcing the Ruby Rose gears to show internally, it is this. Fingers crossed, amigos.
Do you suppose 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!