Combat Your Rival

This yr, consider it or not, sees the Road Fighter franchise have a good time its thirty fifth anniversary. And alongside the anticipated launch of Road Fighter 6, the fan neighborhood can undoubtedly look ahead to a bevy of improbable fan tributes, designed to acknowledge over three a long time of preventing sport excellence.

And we’re kicking off the yr with a doozy of an instance, as director Jeremy Mansford, audio engineers White Owl Studio, and musician/narrator Vo Williams have come collectively to supply a surprising piece of animation celebrating Capcom’s iconic sequence and, extra particularly, the legacy of its most notable of World Warriors, Ryu.

Titled “Combat Your Rival”, the attractive, 80-second animated movie captures the wandering hero’s journey via the franchise, from the early mastery of the martial arts, via his battles with the 4 Kings of Shadaloo, the struggle along with his interior demons, powered by the scary type of the Satsui no Hado. The animation ends along with his twilight period, which sees Ryu a wiser, extra spiritually content material warrior who — regardless of his advancing years — won’t ever stop pursuing the fun of the struggle. Not till his last breath.

And with a complete new technology of opponents awaiting him, it appears that evidently the struggle is way from over.

Road Fighter 6 launches June 2 on PlayStation, PC, and Xbox platforms.