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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Street Fighter Fixes The World's Problems

Posted by Earnest "Nex" Cavalli on Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 3:01 PM

In lieu of candied hearts and polite over the sweater action, Capcom delivers stylized Chinese ladies joining forces with stylized British ladies to punch stylized Korean ladies. One could see this as a metaphorical attempt to heal the indelible wounds created by the British occupation of Hong Kong following the first Opium War — a lingering schism only superficially assuaged by the British government ceding sovereignty back to the Chinese in 1997.

Alternately, one could see that last sentence as the stupidest thing I've written today.

Either way.

 

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