Although it never got Street Fighter V and it probably won’t see Guilty Gear Strive either, the Xbox platform has never been short on excellent fighting games, especially thanks to its own platform exclusive in Killer Instinct, which saw three (and a half…) seasons of excellent content. Then of course are the recent X|S optimised fighters like Mortal Kombat 11 and the excellent Samurai Shodown. Omen of Sorrow comes to Xbox from publisher eastasiasoft and developer AOne games.
Even during the early days of the genre, fighting games were not something you could wing and get away with. They either had to be right up there with the standard bearers in order to have some value in the competitive fighting scene, or they simply did not matter. Lest we forget the atrocious efforts from DataEast during the ‘90s, many of which you can try now on Nintendo Switch Online…
