Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers - Ken Playthrough on Max Difficulty

This is a capture of me playing through the arcade mode of Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers for the Nintendo Switch. I'm using my favorite character, Ken, and playing on the highest difficulty level: World Warrior.
If you've seen my prior Street Fighter uploads you probably already know that I'm a bit of a Street Fighter II fanatic. I've been a fan of the game since it released in the arcades back in 1991 and I've played all of the different iterations either in the arcade or on Nintendo systems.
When Nintendo held its big Switch unveiling in January of this year, I noticed a quick snippet of some Street Fighter II footage, and I instantly got excited. I hadn't played a new Street Fighter II title on a Nintendo system since Super Street Fighter II Turbo Revival released on the Game Boy Advance in 2002. In addition, HORI later announced that it was releasing an arcade stick for the Switch, which made me even more excited.
Ultra Street Fighter II has been out for a couple months now, but I held off on recording a playthrough of the arcade mode because I wanted to get the arcade stick first. The Pro Controller had a crappy D-pad that caused me to mess up moves all the time. Plus I've never liked having only four face buttons for a tournament fighting game like this. The arcade stick solved both of these problems and was just more fun to use overall.
In this video I played through the arcade mode on the highest difficulty level without losing a single round and faced Akuma at the end. I also enabled the classic graphics and sounds since I prefer them over the new stuff.
Even though I completed this on the highest difficulty, this game isn't that difficult overall. The AI was much tougher in the Super Nintendo versions of Street Fighter II, not to mention the original arcade versions. But even so, this is still a fun game.
Recorded with the Elgato Game Capture HD60 and the Switch's HDMI cable at native 1080p resolution and 60 frames per second. I'm using a Real Arcade Pro V Hayabusa joystick.

[@rehandawood]

Ken is my fravroute character

[@edwardgaines6561]

Poor Ken. He got married. 😔

[@ChadWalker-jx9jt]

Shoryuken and shoryureppa

[@steveaceves6214]

I Have Ultra Street Fighter 2 The Final Challenger At Once 🎖️⭐️🎖️🥇🏅🎮

[@xCurvx]

Nice job dude! I'm surprised how they toned down/balanced the AI in this game on the hardest difficulty. In Hyper Street Fighter 2/Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, the enemy does more damage to you and you do less damage to them. For example, when (Shin) Akuma did a shoryuken on you, on HSF2 this would take off between ~70-80% of your health. Same when Dee-Jay used his combo at you in that fight. Also, it looks like the enemy will try to use moves that have less priority than yours when you attack. Good stuff! Any chance of an Akuma or Shin Akuma playthrough?

[@WatchmeplayNintendo]

Thanks. I could possibly do that, as well as Violent Ken.

[@KenMasters.]

I guess it's just to add more balance.

[@rehandawood]

@@WatchmeplayNintendo is this 🇯🇵 version

[@user-nn7de8jr9w]

Balrog and vega BGM good!!!

[@marquellascott1225]

13:28

[@tunkunrunk]

I can't find videos of people playing with others players on max difficulty . I want to see balrog , dhalsim and Zangief on level hard

[@megamanmegaman8447]

We can only do 2 peoples

[@octaviovega1249]

Saludos desde Panamá

[@sirisuksukkantharak1205]

Octavio Vega your name is Vega?!

[@miguelalcides7113]

21:37

[@Mayonidas05]

Why does the announcer guy sound like cell?

[@megamanmegaman8447]

No

[@pinkrudy]

you made it look easy but it is not. your dragon punch was on point.... lol how your DP own tiger uppercut against sagat. you didnt lose a round! shin akuma almost had you first round.

[@megamanmegaman8447]

Can you play with New Style?

[@humbertoquackenbush3932]

This looks and feels like a Flash Game you'd play on a browser in 2007.

[@marquellascott1225]

I used to use him and Ryu to kick people's asses.

[@quanworthwealth59]

Man I hate playing against Sagat! The worst character ever lol

[@sukihuang3460]

No one likes the New Style

[@megamanmegaman8447]

I hope no

[@morbidlust999]

The voice actor I don’t like 🤦🏾‍♂️ how he Pronounce everything.. so monotone and with no charisma

[@aznpikachu215]

That's how he sounded an HD remix. In ultra Street fighter 2 the HD edition he sounds more hyped.

[@raidchaser443]

The Street fighter 4 VA (japanese) is a BETTER fit for Ken. Same with Ryu,Chun-Li,Cammy & Guile(japanese).