Ranking ALMOST ALL the Fighting Game Movies & Anime!
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ok but to be totally fair the "it was just tuesday" line from street fighter is a COLD line i love it
"Who are you?"
"You killed my brother!"
"Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?"
Whenever Raul Julia's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking, "Where's Raul Julia?"
Even when Matt is making a tier list video, he just can't seem to get away from "I have seen the amateur and it is YOU!" 😅
If only Legend of Chun Li kept some of the cast.... We could nickname it Street Fighter: Annihilation
I'm noticing a suspicious lack of Blazblue: Alter Memory on the tier list
I've got a real soft spot for that one. Condenses the plot super-hard, but it's what got me into Blazblue in the first place.
Dang you beat me to it
It's better off ignored, sadly
Didn't even know this existed, to be honest. Was it ever brought over officially?
@@flophouseplays yes funimation dubbed it
Even got the game cast
Thank God you did terrible in that report card in 1997.
Obari Cinematic Universe should be top tier all the time.
Seeing Studio G1 return for KOF XV was epic. I honestly wished it was a film. The opening animation is awesome
His entire filmography is nuts. The Obariverse deserves a litltle respect.
_Toshinden_ was literally my childhood. 😆
Street Fighter: The animated Movie had no right being as good as it ended up being. Brilliantly choreographed fight scenes and cheesy storyline intertwined to make it the definitive fighting game anime. Surprised it came under God Tier with it being the finest movie on the list
not enough people mention the fact that Bryan Cranston is in it
“Not bad or was it just luck?” 😏
SF V is underrated that Guile bar fight with Ken and Ryu was 🔥
I love the fact there’s enough of these to fill up a tier list .
I am just glad you love the Fatal Fury trilogy so much. I feel too many haven't seen it and know how great they are, especially the motion picture, with that great ending theme.
Yeah, i even watched Netorare Fighter Yaricchingu! Fatal Fury's bootleg version lmao
I've only ever seen the motion picture, as it was the only one for rent at blockbuster, but I grew up loving it.
@@jmarx3943 Fatal Fury TMP was low key great for getting into Anime. I was lucky enough that my first experiences with it was Fatal Fury, Berserk, Basilisk, and oddly enough... Love Hina. Good mixture of stuff to get a feel for it.
"Is Mass Suicide Tasty?" Remains a running joke between me and my friends in our bloody 40's now.
Fun fact: Fei Long was voiced by Bryan Cranston in the street fighter animated movie.
Missing the Variable Geo and Psychic Force OAVs.
Maybe for next time. There are so many rare and tough to find titles. They are not on everyone's radar
Yeah Psychic Force is mad overlooked and im shocked it even got an adaptation. Pretty underrated game especially the sequel 2012 on Sega Dreamcast
I haven't looked super deeply, but I've listened to quite a lot of Triple KO podcast episodes and done a little bit of searching on this channel; and I'm starting to be convinced that he just doesn't know that Psychic Force exists
Omg Variable Geoooo that was pretty decent
Street Fighter, Darkstalkers... even Power Stone had animes. But not Rival Schools, though. The game's intro is all anime style, but that's just it. Even the "secret" endings received the anime style treatment.
Same with Bloody Roar: Primal Fury. That game got anime intro and endings but no actual animated series outside its game.
@@VOAN Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. Man, I miss Bloody Roar..
Same thing with Tech Romancer, I'd love to see an anime adaptation of that game, I mean it would be a mecha show in which each of the main characters homages a different kind of mecha series like Mazinger Z, Getter Robo, Gundam, Macross, Evangelion, etc
@@pablocasas5906 I haven't played that game for years. Capcom has lots of cool IPs, yet they remain locked inside their vault, collecting nothing but dust. It's sad, depressing.
Was there even a Guilty Gear anime? It seems like a no-brainer for one to exist, but...
"It's Cheesy, it's Schlocky" IT'S DEAD OR ALIVE, the one with the BOOBIES!!
I LOVED the latest live action Mortal Kombat movie. It came out during the pandemic and it's what made me subscribe to HBO Max because I had been wanting a new MK movie for years. Going back and rewatching, it definitely doesn't have that magic it had when I first viewed it, but it came out during the perfect time and was still a super fun movie.
You missed one rather obscure part of Samurai Shodown animation, the Nakoruru OAV. It was pretty weird as kind of a post-game story with Nakoruru having PTSD, and it was never even finished.
Obviously the Street Fighter and Fatal Fury animated movies reign supreme and the rest basically don't even matter. Not a whole lot of quality in this genre.
@@ColeVecsion it's an adaptation of her Visual Novel nakoruru ano hito kara no okurimono
@@ColeVecsion Yeah, it is a tie-in to that game if I'm not mistaken.
Thw darkstalkers animated series needs to be godlike bad, its so funny, it has dumn recurring jokes like "attractive fishman" victor has a butler and THE harnold appears to threaten lord raptor.
The animations errors are so frequent too, the animators put Felicia's tail inside her ass like 3 times for no reason
MK Legacy... Matt Mullins was so good as Johnny Cage. I was sad he got replaced in season 2, and didn't bring him back for the upcoming MK2 film
Loved that dude in Kamen Rider Dragon Knight and thought he was perfect as a younger Cage! So sad to hear he got replaced.
53:47 I really appreciate the fact that you’ve used Jin’s Theme Remix from Street Fighter X Tekken, despite that game’s problems I think it has one of my favorite video game soundtracks ever.
This is by far the best tier list video I've ever seen
Surprised you didn't review the sfv live action short. Had the same team that worked on SF legends & assassin's fist
I always thought DoA movie was pretty good. I mean hot chicks, tongue in cheek, good action and Eric Roberts - everything I want
Street Fighter II the Animated Movie is the greatest video game movie of all time 👊🏾
I always believed that the animators may have thought that Andy and terry looked too much alike?
Or moreso Andy and Geese
@@projectrain2254 blue was an interesting choice
Chun Li vs Vega is the best fight scene in any film, ever. TSF2V the series was wonderful. The original Mortal Kombat film is the soundtrack to my life!
Lui kang vs reptile clears it because it’s real
No Psychic Force OVAs ??
So much 90's nostalgia.👍🏾
Man, you clipped that bit in the Fatal Fury movie where the guy gets the bullet in the forehead. That part traumatized me as a kid back in the 90s!
There was one thing about Street Fighter the Animated Movie that always bugged me. There are no scenes, unless I somehow missed it, of M. BIson doing a Psycho Crusher. Which was odd, because Street Fighter II V had him doing it. Sure it took a bit of spinning in place for like half a minute to do it, but he did it.
OOOh a very fresh Matt-video!
As someone that also loves the Fatal Fury movies I really think you need to rewatch SF II V again. I consider that up there at least Master level. The quirky ness, the music, the eastern philosophy, the bromance with Ryu and Ken. The redemption from getting their ass kicked from Guile. I mean they came up with chakra before Naruto was even out even Avatar. Highly underrated imo and should be revisited.
39:26 Did Hasbro copyright some Gi Joe cartoon footage? Or did someone forget to put the Street Fighter movie clip here?
I remember the MK webshow pre-Lui Kang stuff was solid and there were retcons from that point forward; the Scorpion Subzero backstory is one of the best live action adaption of them yet.
The first Fatal Fury OVA gave us Bye Bye My Love, one of the greatest insert songs in a fighting game anime, ever.
tbh I totally forgot Akuma was even in the Alpha movie
I'd also put it at the tier you did just bc I like all the new characters they made for it
Love seeing you doing a tier list of this. Thanks Matt!
So many adaptations, so little time
If someone wants a good and funny review of the Mortal Kombat series, the youtuber Phelan Porteous has a great review of all the episodes.
Hey, Matt McMuscles. You should definitely rank all of the Sonic the Hedgehog games, movies, and TV shows (and a anime, because Sonic X). Would you mind doing that, pretty please?
Overall quite a solid ranking. There's a good few of these on the list I haven't seen before, like Power Stone, most of the SNK OVAs or Assassin's Fist.
For my money, MK '95 and Street Fighter II are the undisputed kings. The third Fatal Fury movie was stellar, and DOA was much better than I had expected. I also really liked the 2021 MK movie and the Legends cartoons, even with Battle for the Realms being three movies crammed into one. Tekken Blood Vengeance was my first foray into into that series, and I still have a soft spot for it. It was funny as hell seeing the OC thinking he could fight Heihachi and immediately getting stomped for it.
On the other hand, MK Annihilation was the movie that taught me at an early age that sequels can suck. KOF was irredeemably painful, and the live-action Tekken butchered Kazuya something fierce. Street Fighter The Movie... I can't say it's good, but by God is it entertaining. Truly, it defies conventional rating.
Absolutely adore seeing these lists from ya Matt, to hell with how greasy it is!
Potential list topic ideas for you
-Capcom Beat-Em-Ups
-Every Silent Hill game (Ya did RE, why not give the OTHER huge name in survival horror some love?)
-Mega Man games. All of them. There's a LOT. I'm a Mega Man guy, you're a Mega Man guy, c'moooooon Matt give us starving Mega Man fans some content in celebration of the Exoprimal and Street Fighter 6 Mega Man content
-Mortal Kombat Karacters (LOVE seeing peoples takes on these guys, and you already did the Tekken roster, LET'S DO MK BABYYYYY!)
-Soul Calibur Roster (The OTHER fighting game I obsess over, which I'd love to see get a list)
You covered stuff like SF Assassin's Fist, but not the one where RYU IS A POWER RANGER?
????
@flophouseplays it was a short film as an official collab for the Power Rangers mobile game, Legacy Wars. Tommy hands Ryu a morpher, they morph and fight Bison and (I think) Rita
I'm GRATEFUL you bought up SF V!! I haven't seen the whole series in years but it use to near impossible to finding back when DVDs were a thing. I'm going to watch the whole series right now!
Let’s also not forget Johnny Cage’s recycled backward-walk cycle they reused like a dozen times in the boat fight in the MK Journey Begins .
Street Fighter 2 V was sick. Deserved to be up one higher in the ranking.
16:19 I bought the Street Fighter cartoon, I'm watching through it again, and it's definitely in that "so bad it's good territory." People look like they should (though finding the errors is really fun) and I actually like the voice acting. The Ocean Group (the same who did Mega Man and the first Dragon Ball Z) didn't do a bad job. The first Piccolo does Blanka for corn sake, I love it! I remember liking when they did the Final Fight crossover when I saw it on TV, so I'm looking forward to seeing if there are truly good bits in it.
The was an original dub of the SF OVA on VHS that didn’t have Korn or AIC. IMO, it was the superior dub.
That sounds made up.
That sounds like the *inferior version* 🙄
Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist has a remake of Alpha Generations squeezed in its middle except they actually made it good.
One obscure "fighting game" (i say that in air quotes because it has really odd mechanics) that really should be adapted into an anime is Evil Zone.
Was Darkstalkers great no, but i developed a huge crush on Felicia from the show. Remember watching this before school in the mid-90s.
Oh hey i never hear criticisms of the sf2 animated movie, im glad i share your opinion on it
I personally have nostalgia for both the tekken ova and tekken bloodvengence.
Finally someone puts some respekt on the Fatal Fury animation trilogy's name
Holy cow, I own the Fatal Fury blu-rays and I never even thought to check if they had a commentary, let alone guess that Matt McMuscles was on it. I'll definitely have to check that out when I have the time.
I have a personal fondness for Street Fighter II V. I used it buy the VHS tapes for it (eventually buying the DVDs) with my allowance from Suncoast back in the day.
Also…..no Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer?! 😂
Always wondered how that Kitana - Liu Kang fight ended. It just cuts. I'd think they're being made to fight to the death like everyone else on that island.
Surprisingly, I really enjoy the Alpha movie, but mostly for the absolutely awesome Akuma scene in Japanese. He's barely even in the movie, but he's so much more badass because of that scene. The framing choices for Chun-Li are... uh... very of the time, let me just put it that way. Very fanservicey in a bizarre way. 😆
A bit of trivia: The guy who played Sagat in VanDamme's _Street Fighter_ is Wes Studi. He's done films like that and _Mystery Men,_ but has also done absolutely legendary roles like his villain role as Magua in _Last of the Mohicans,_ which was fucking awesome, and a ton of other movies and TV. It's just so wild to see someone with such character in these weird ass movies I grew up with as a kid. 😆
Daaamn. Daniel Bernhardt is a legend, too! That guy's done a ton of martial arts films (the Bloodsport sequels, The Matrix sequels, the John Wick films, Logan, Fast & Furious, Cap: Civil War) - he really gets around and is very well-known if you're familiar with martial arts in cinema.
DOA was super fun to me, definitely a master because it feels like a videogame, all the nonsense is there.
On the other hand that live action street fighter movie that got in the master tier bored my sister and me so much thay we literally fell asleep. She was hyped because we loved SFII back in the day but the disappointment was immeasurable... lol.
there was a Nakoruru "OVA" from like, 2000s? idk, its was a weird moe nakoruru arc...
Kristiana Loken played as Taija= Ta-sh-sha i believe its pronounced Matt. i liked her character n i think it be interesting if she made a comeback if done right w/ Loken reprising her role with both her voice n likeness idk coulda be sometin
All they had to do with Cole Young in MK2021 was have Scorpion possess his body on some YuGiOh shit and that would've elevated his character alot.
This has become my new big "autism brain demands watching this on repeat" video, thank you!
A fun sequel to this video would be to take this list and then rank fighting game story modes into it.
I mean, not like the Hyper Fighting "story" but rather things like the NRS story modes and other games that really try for that sort of cinematic presentation.
We all dunk on these bad adaptations. But how do the games actually compare? Where would the MKX or Tekken 7 story modes rank compared to some of these adaptations?
I agree 100% with Matt on MK Cage Match. It tires to hard to be shocking, but everything around that is pretty good. Kind of weird that the best stuff in a Johnny Cage movie is all of the Johnny-less stuff. I hope that WB keeps doing these animated movies as well.
To the first live action Street Fighter movie's credit it at least
TRIED to feel like the games. Legend of Chun Li did not!
Not enough fights
3:01IIRC it's meant to be Shadow Law in the original, Shadaloo was just typical early 90's shoddy translation work.
I love how when it comes to KOF is more like a pick your poison
The weird amalgam between KOF 94 and the first fatal Fury that is KOF Destiny or the awful live action movie
Despite being dumb I would argue KOF destiny had some fun stuff, including the most likable version of Kyo that isn't just some annoying brat, but is not a surprise KOF Awakened was cancelled, buried and silently forgotten
The KOF live action movie has Francoise Yip as Chizuru dying like a dumbass tho, and I can't always watch that scene without dying of laughter
Destiny does some very questionable changes, like turning Benimaru into an idiot or Terry into a stoic, brooding edgelord. Also brainwashed Sports Team or how Takuma isn't even mentioned.
nice was wondering where you were gonna put assassin's fist, caught it randomly somewhere and was super surprised
A missed opportunity not having a Bio F.R.E.A.K.S movie adaptation with Kevin Nash as Mutilator
Blood Vengeance was not great, it was quite boring but, the fight at the begining between the Williams sisters was very good. To me that fight and the fight at the end was the movies saving grace. Good video, rly liked it.
I say you give Conquest another go. A friend and I watched it all (which probably helped, because we just had a laugh), and objectively speaking, there is some really good choreography in the some of the later fights that I remember to this day. You'll just have to ignore some questionable design choices like Gimp Saibot...
If nothing else, remind yourself of the Cobalt Mines and the intro/ending theme. Top notch 90's techno!
I will play the defender for Cole Young with one valid argument. The man just needs more development.
I still can't believe the Rain actor in Mortal Kombat Annhilation was a black guy in white face
Tyrone Wiggins.
haven't watch the full video yet, but he might be missing:
-Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer the Movie
-Future Cops (a 1993 Hong Kong action-comedy film loosely based on Capcom's fighting game Street Fighter II)
-Injustice animated movie (but that kinda depends if you see it as a DC movie, not so much a fighting game movie)
-Nakoruru - Ano hito kara no okurimono: Kyôri no iyû hen (technically a 30 min OVA short, but i'm not sure if that really counts)
Pretty sure Voltage fighter was an anime first, and a game second. But feel free to correct me on that. Future Cops is not official, so it doesn't count (I state in the start I'm only doing officially licensed things) I don't think Injustice counters either, for the points you mentioned. I didn't know the Nakoruru short existed, so that I did miss!
from the info i can find on the internet, it states that the Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer OVA/movie is based on the SNK game. i can't find anything about a anime preceding the 1995 videogame. the nakoruru OVA is something that came along with the limited edition of the Dreamcast nakoruru visual novel i believe. @useplays
From what i can find online, it states that the Voltage Fighter OVA/Movie is based on the videogame. i can't find anything about an anime preceding the 1995 SNK videogame. The Nakoruru OVA came with the limited edition of the Dreamcast visual novel game i believe.
also, not sure if this counts but, there was a 2021 chinese live-action dynasty warriors movie called "Dynasty Warriors: Destiny of an Emperor". Dynasty warrior did start off as a fighting game on the PS1, but i could see why someone would not count it as a fighting game movie.
@@flophouseplays
from the info i can find on the internet, it states that the Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer OVA/movie is based on the SNK game. i can't find anything about a anime preceding the 1995 videogame. the nakoruru OVA is something that came along with the limited edition of the Dreamcast nakoruru visual novel i believe.
i also just remembered the 2021 chines live-action movie "Dynasty Warriors: Destiny of an Emperor". Dynasty warriors did start off as a fighting game on the PS1, but i'm not really sure if this would count.
@@redcoffeemug7537 You are right. Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer video game came out in September-November 1995 for Arcades, NeoGeo & NeoGeo CD, while the 1st episode of Gowcaizer OVA came out in September 1996, so OVA should be on this list.
I know its more of a motion comic but I was hoping to hear your opinion on Street Fighter Round One. I liked that. It was dumb of Capcom to package it with legend of Chun-Li.
It's fine, honestly not much to say about it.
I'm surprised there's no SoulCalibur or Dead or Alive anime. If a DOA anime came out in the mid-2000s, it would've been very fanservicey and have an ADV dub. If it happened today, it could either be a serious origin story for Kasumi and Ayane during DOA1 or more of Marie and Honoka doing stuff that's only appealing to old Japanese salarymen and gacha-addicts.
Favorite topic EVER!.................. But I wish Bloody Roar had an anime or cartoon
Me too! Even just a 45 min OVA.
@@flophouseplays I am always wondering the "plot" of Bloody Roar. In a meta sense.
Mortal Kombat: Magic tournament of conquest.
Street Fighter: Tournament in the background and Shadow Law (lou?) is building something evil.
Tekken: Daddy issues at the Mishima corporation.
Soul Calibur: Good sword and evil sword quest. Kill a demon.
Bloody Roar: Maybe we are an X-men story of an oppressed people in a world that hates us, maybe we are a magic quest of ancient monsters, and maybe you can become a were-robot........what?
I just need a ground for the fan fiction, ya know. You can't both be science fiction prejudice metaphor with mad science AND ancient demons equally. One has to take the lead if they are mixed at all. Add all the robots you like to Mortal Kombat and Tekken, you will never have a grey goo scenario or Lawnmower Man stories because the Demons are the focus. But with Bloody Roar.....every time they add something to the mix, it takes over the mix.
The Fatal Fury motion picture is my favorite, hands down.
The second movie is so good
Say what you will, but the Darkstalkers US cartoon captures the spirit of the games far better than the OVA.
I'd like to know what possessed the live-action King of Fighters writers to make Terry and Mai CIA agents. Attempted parallels with Guile and Chun-li?
I still have to give the MK 95 movie the best out of all of these overall, though if you want to separate animated from live which some people like to do understandably. I like Scorpion's Revenge and Snowblind a lot. SF Anime movie is fun that's my fav SF movie overall. I also had to LOL@ "Tai-Ya Tay Ya" LMAO😂😂 Whole time I'm watching that I'm like " It's Taja". Also definitely disagree about Scorpion's Revenge it's the MK tournament from his perspective...it was very well done and not just from Liu's perspective for the billionth time.
honestly i would’ve loved cole if they changed his power. like i was hoping his power would be like scorpion possess him and help him fight instead of just summoning him. like this demon is his protector i would’ve loved that but instead they try to make cole his own character who’s…boring.
What about 'Street Fighter: The Later Years' God-Tier!
here's a thought how about Ranking all of the Akuma themes from each game
So i guess that means both Highlander actors have been in Mortal Kombat adaptations
I own a VHS copy of Mortal Kombat: The Journey Begins, and of all the straight-to-VHS animated promotional tie-ins featuring early poor 3D animation, this is the one.
Fml. That amateur section. We deserve better fellow anime/fighting game lovers.
Sf 2 V is awesome the Ryu meets Sagat episode was great!. Also Dhalsim explain Ki to Ryu was awesome!
Tekken Bloodline, I remember that one.
I know its just your opinion, but Street Fighter II V ( Victory) is great, i remember watching as a kid and even back then it was awesome, that opening and the hadoukens were so cool
I didn't notice it but once you said the shadows were fucked up in Tekken Bloodline, I can't unsee it.
That shit is ugly.
That's how it seems to be for everyone. You don't notice the triangles until you do and suddenly it's all you can pay attention to and it basically ruins it. 🤣 I truly hate it because I think there was a lot of potential there.
Fatal Fury the motion picture is the goat. Oh Angel is my battlecry 😆
Spoiler alert for Mortal Kombat Conquest:
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They all died in the end. The last episode/scene shows Shao Kahn with a captured Raiden showing off a bunch of items from the various fighters while saying how he killed them/they died.
MK 1995 at the very top? Yes, I am satisfied. 😊
Ken went from blonde to redhead 😂
Where is Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer?
I might be wrong here but I'm surprised there hasn't been an attempt at a Guilty Gear anime.
Or soul calibur
31:20 isn’t the monk from samurai shodown ?
Medabots had a fighting game
Therefore, it qualifies for this list
Well, with Namco focusing on Tekken 8, and with how Netflix is treating animation badly, safe to say Tekken Bloodline may not come back for a second season
It's a shame, really. I liked Bloodline a lot, they really handled my boy Jin well. And even if Paul didn't beat Ogre in it, he still got far more respect than he's had in the last two decades.