Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game (1994) Review 

How much restraint did they have to not name it Fighter: The Streetening

“Animal hybrids, cyborgs and elementals, just like in Street Fighter” you say that like those don’t make sense in a world with mutants, demons, clones, and a dictator with physic powers.

Fun fact: The relationship between Capcom & White Wolf also resulted in Capcom USA attempting to make a beat-em-up based off of Werewolf for the Sega Saturn. It didn't get very far in development, but a prototype did leak at some point

Since 1999, when it was published in Brazil, still my favorite tabletop RPG. Its battle system is amazing!

I read an interview with Steve Wietch where he talks about playing Street Fighter 2 while taking breaks from working on Werewolf and deciding to reach out for the license. It's too bad this was the only license they got because they showed some genuine ingenuity here.

Back in the 90s I was a white wolf game demonstrater. I would demo WW products at game stores and cons and get free product in return. All the demonstrators were in an email list and at this time I had learned of the then recently out of print SF TTRPG and asked if anyone knew where I could get a copy on the demo team mail list and another demonstrater in New Zealand (I lived in Canada) sent me the core book and an adventure module (The Perfect Warrior) for free. I ended up playing Street Fighter with my gaming group a lot, and one member of my old group still lists it as his favorite TTRPG. I'll always be grateful to that guy who sent me those books.

Fighter: the streeting is not something I expected to exist, and non-fanmade at that

I really like the look of this game, the combat does a shockingly good job of adapting fighting games, and I think the storyteller system would be really good for the melodrama of a Mortal Kombat style story. With the expansions for more character options, I think this could be really fun.

The first edition of the Wizardry TTRPG was released in 1988, based on the Wizardry series of CRPGs, but only in Japanese I think. Honestly it wouldn't surprise me if it turned out this was originally proposed as a tie-in to the first Darkstalkers game, which came out the same year. That would explain the "weird guys" rules with animal hybrids and elementals and stuff, the darker gorier tone compared to SF and why White Wolf of all people were making it and it would be a way to logically have the line cross over with other White Wolf splats. And then Capcom pulled a Capcom and made 'em milk Street Fighter instead. Not to mention the third Darkstalkers game was even marketed as a World of Darkness game when it first hit the arcades in English for some reason, with the White Wolf logo on the flyers and everything.

I assume the limited boring move starting points, was that you would work up to those with experience, and the from game characters were not assumed to be "level 1" when statted.

The active international fan community has officially discovered this video... :)

I’m shocked white wolf didn’t try to do a Mortal Kombat TTRPG. Tone-wise Mortal Kombat would fit with Vampire the Masquerade better.

What if they had the Darkstalkers license, I wonder...

There was at least one published adventure for Street Fighter, Perfect Warrior. You do the street fights, investigate a mystery by fighting people and smack down and evil Shadaloo plot.

I love this era when most game publishers weren't concerned with brand cohesion. American companies did wild things when expanding these Japanese properties!

It’s not quite a ttrpg in the traditional sense but Metroid did have a game book with ttrpg elements that released in 1986 called Metroid: Zebes Invasion Order. In MZO you play as Samus going through the events of the first Metroid game for the first two thirds and then you switch to a choose your own adventure book for the last, it’s a strange experience. The gameplay portion is actually really fun since it’s designed with backtracking in mind so you can go back to previous areas to heal and look for items without going against the spirit of the game.

We actually had a lot of fun with this game back in the 90’s!

It is easily the least well-regarded Street Fighter comic series-- _for reasons_ -- but Street Fighter 100% was an edgy grimdark 90s comic book... I think, coincidentally, at right about the same time as the game was in print.

To answer the question at 11:39. Apparently yes, in the US release of street fighter 2 Blanka and Dhalsim were given those styles, that has later since been fixed as it didn't fit either. And while Kabaddi's still gone unused, in street fighter 3 we did get an actual capueirista

A good buddy who owned the FLGS was a fan of this, which was surprising considering his dislike of all things WW. I always meant to track down a copy and see why he dug it so much.

Yes! I love this game. I get flack by WoD fans for liking this game and hate when I jokingly call it "The Greatest Storyteller Game EVER!" LOL You really hit all the right nails on the head with this review! Great job!! I pick this game up back in the day. My objective was to ignore the Street Fighter II elements and run it as a kung-fu/blaxploitation setting of my own making. I had scenarios related to crime-fighting or vengeance, while the action was based on beat 'em up games like Double Dragon and Streets of Rage, so I had to adjust the rules a little for group-fighting. There where no world-wide tournaments, no elite OP fighters, nor an omnipresent criminal organization. Everything was local and fairly down-to-earth.

11:47 the same for the superhero rpg, you were able to make less powerful clones of existing superheroes.

There's actually a pretty fun TTRPG based off fighting games simply called Fight!. It's on its second edition, it's very thorough in letting you make just about any kind of fighting game character you can imagine.

As a fighting game player, I think this video/review was excellent. Thanks.

I'm like 90% sure that the weird shit from the players book is there for Darkstalkers purposes.

You are very underrated, love your work

There is a fan made 20th aniversary of the book

White Wolf was famous in the 90s for deliberately limiting the options in the core book so you would have to buy more of their blister books to keep up with the power creep. It was like TCG rules with their RPGs.

My favorite trivia about this game is it had them make a sourcebook for WoD called WoD: Combat; one of the most gonzo WoD supplements ever.

This is the game that got me interested in tabletop rpgs. I found it when it was new and purchased it a decade later after it was out of print. I've never played it. But I would love to.

"M. Balrogson" I get the reference. ;)

19:22 it does replicate a fighting game pretty well

11:24-11:40: Well, Blanka is from Brazil, and as we know, all Brazilians know capoeira. On a more serious note, if you've seen Moon Channel's video on Japanese games and Brazil, saying that Blanka's fighting style is capoeira is an interesting mashup of different eras of Brazilian stereotypes.

Great now I want a copy of this and do a combined crossover campaign of Hunter Street Fighters vs everyone

Must be hard to do a campaign with this game

7:45 is a foot sweep not an illegal move in sumo?

I don’t think some people would mind if they used the improved combat for the darkness stuff as well 27:35 I guess they did

Animal hybrids and elementals were a thing in Street Fighter 2 (Dictator with psycho power, Blanka with both), and cybernetics are a thing currently, so honestly not really repulsed by it.

You could call him Flesh Leg Pete

Those rules... Gonna note them and steal from these if I ever make a Baki the Grapler one shot

D&D 3E had a Diablo module

Good video but saw a mistake as you can only start with 3 techniques but can buy more with freebie points.

Wouldn’t Zangief still be blocking in your first round of tutorial combat? Pretty sure the block lasts the whole round, which brings Cannon Drill down to the minimum of one die.

Cunning plan to release this video around when SF6 came out. I approve. Also, SoulCalibur is great but 4 was an abomination.

18:00 combat example

32:14 is that Adrienne Barbeau?

9:29 shouldn’t a cyborg be less healthy?

Are you reading this intro from a script and is it on your left? That's the only reason I can think that you keep looking that way. 😄

I heard this was actually compatible with Vampire somehow

You didn't mention Erik the Red So Fine, 0 out of 0 stars (just joking)

American artists used to go out of their way to draw things badly 🤣

Glory is how many wins you got. Your ranking in international street fighter leagues. Honour is how much you abide by the honour rules of street fighting. Not even Bison shows up with a handgun to a street fight. There was a bunch of books that added more styles and stuff. It sounds like you start out as fairly low-level street fighters. You are not Blanca or Chun Li level.

It's not really based on the fighting game. It's a Tabletop Role-Playing Game based on a terrible movie that's based on a fighting game.