When Blaze Entertainment first revealed the updated Evercade EXP-R and VS-R, I’ll admit I was sceptical. I already own the 2022 black collector’s edition EXP, the one with the Capcom games pre-installed and a handy TV-out port, so when I saw the new model had lost both, it felt, at first glance, like a step backwards. But after spending time with both the redesigned EXP-R and its living-room counterpart, the VS-R, I’ve come to realise Blaze hasn’t fundamentally taken anything away, it’s simply refined its vision.
