Update: Street Fighter 5 receives really weird yet cute crossover with The Battle Cats featuring M. Bison and his generals as clumsy felines
Oh and there's still Akuma giraffe floating around too
Update: The Street Fighter 5 x Battle Cats collaboration event that was previously exclusive to Japan is now available in the West for the next two weeks. You can find out more information about the weirdly cute transformed world warriors in the original story below.
Street Fighter as a property has run through more crossovers than we can count at this point, but there's still a few that certainly stand out among the sea of others out there.
The Battle Cats mobile game, also known as Nyanko Daisensou in Japan, announced a special Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition crossover event that'll bring in much of the world warriors in both human and silly cat forms.
Players will be able to obtain Ryu, Chun-Li, Guile, Zangief, Blanka, Dhalsim, Ken, M. Bison, Vega and Balrog as Uber Rare unlocks in their human form while Akuma is Legend Rare.
As for the round cat versions, Ryu, Chun-Li, M. Bison, Balrog and Vega can stumble their way across stages which is both cute and a little weird to see.
What's even more weird, however, is Akuma turns into a giraffe for some reason.
This is actually a follow-up to last year when Ponos and Capcom teamed up originally for an Arcade Edition event, and they've come back now to add in more content including M. Bison and his generals. Ryu can apparently be upgraded into Kage now as well.
Battle Cats is something of a tower defense game where players build up armies of goofy feline fighters to clear stages and unlock even more powerful cats.
While there are some standard classes you'd expect in a game like this with knight cats and ninjas, but most of the roster is a bit off-the-wall with inclusions like Bondage Cat and Mythical Titan Cat.
You can check out the announcement trailer and some screenshots for the new Street Fighter crossover below, but be warned it may be hard to put down the game once you download it as somebody speaking with a little experience from the last one.
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