Daemos

I'm just saying the game could've put more effort into showing us what canonically happened between your Cac and JP at the end. We know that your Cac was there canonically, but the fight between them is weird. If JP sandbagged so that the world would see him as a victim, the game didn't make it clear that his losing to you and his fall was part of a deception for an international audience. We didn't see or hear a reaction to the fight from other fighters (like "oh you're the guy who beat the cripple old man"). The entire arena actually seemed have been cleared out after the bomb so there would be few to no onlookers to see JP use PP. JP's strength is indeed deception and manipulation and not fighting prowess. That was his instruction at the end of his mastery with your Cac after all. But we didn't see that in a more literal sense like that we spoke of it in the comic.

They rarely do. But we can infer its canonicity sometimes by how the characters react to it. Like JP does not react to you later for kicking his ass in the end but does react to Bosch’s attack. JP does react however to meeting you in the palace at night (in fact it is what alerted him to the bomb plot and how he survived). So some interactions with your avatar in the main plot seem to have happened. All the information revealed to you from your masters is canon as well arguably (not so much your direct interactions with them). It retroactively canonizes or decanonizes too.

This is honestly the best one yet ❤️

Any QOTSA fans here? Their new album looks to be something special.

There is absolutely nothing stopping them from making it so that when old man Lee got drunk, he was suddenly able to breakdance. Zeku and Oro already have the air of party animals. Lee could've had his own fun.

Jan/Feb 2024.

Are you being serious? I honestly can't tell anymore. WTF is happening here?

Heard on the grapevine that Smug is polling his tens of thousands of followers about our lord and savior. I hope you are all voting with your conscious for the right thing or you may be eternally damned to Street Fighter hell - fighting a revolving door of modern Kens and losing each time!

I'm just saying there is a lot of dancing in the base roster to the point where I wouldn't think twice if we replaced some of it with more serious fighters. One thing I can say about the base roster is that it needed more edge. The "street" can be dangerous too. Not sure if AKI and Akuma can solve this in year 1.

Not necessarily, but how much dance should the game have? Dee Jay, Kimberly, and Manon all have a lot of dance influences. Did Jamie have to have it too? Lee would've been really cool I think and he would've practically been a new character. (I really like Jamie btw)

They wanted Diversity Guy not Girl Guy. I agree with this. SF has so many characters in the universe now once you include Rival Schools and FF, bringing them back to fill the "new character slots" would work just as well in some cases.

The lady doth protest too much.

WHAAAAT!? Growing up I could only picture myself as Ma-Ti from the Planeteers*! It might not be the coolest power but it surely is the one we need the most! *Often though I wanted to be Dr. Blight. That hairstyle and catsuit were so fierce one could easily overlook her eco-crimes.

I think Lily's stock mechanic is just bad... Like early SF5 Juri bad. Also I'm not a fan of her bimbo/clumsy demeanor. She could've been a more serious character like Ma-Ti from Captain Planet if that is what they were going for. A lot of Gen Zers are serious about the environment for example and Lily could've captured that essence. Being young and small doesn't necessarily mean being dumb. We already have a young mystic who is clumsy in the form of Menat. Definitely the weakest of the new characters.

All WTM gear and clothing so far: https://twitter.com/OlafRedland/status/1668216136075444225?s=20

I can live with this roster as it has my top 3 most played (Reptile, Shang, and Sindel). Will be interested to see what they do with Havik and Reiko.

Companies usually reboot when they fuck shit up. Capcom has not fucked SF since SF3 (despite what people will say about SF5). The way Capcom are doing the story also avoids writing themselves in a corner too. The pattern with SF seems to be in retrospect that Capcom uses odd number entries (1,3,5) to take bigger risks with the series and then use even number entries (0,2,4,6) to give people more of what worked, and less of what didn't (since the previous even entry). So even if Capcom take a big risk in SF7 like a reboot or big timejump, they will course correct in SF8 and return groveling back to the golden goose that is SF2 legacy.

Yeah we’re already delving deeper into our kombat kids era. I don’t count shotos like Sakura because they are like the MK ninjas in essence meant to duplicate the success without replacing (new gen energy). Sean is our first true Kombat Kid IMO. Thankfully Capcom changed their mind on that one quickly and added Ryu/Ken back in SF3. Ibuki is a successful KK because her progenitor was never popular (Geki). AKI could be like that for FANG unfortunately. Lily also for Hawk but she didn’t connect with audiences yet outside of people gossiping about her age. Which is a connection I guess. Ed is literally biological progeny. Kombat Kid for sure. Menat is another one but she is excellent, not better than the original IMO but it’s not bad.

You mean he actually generates sandstorms and it’s not the jets on his feet and back? Wtf? These air elementals are so confusing now. Lily uses an ancient spirit. Guile makes a hurricane by breaking the sound barrier. And Cody punches really fast making tornadoes. This kid Rashid just wills it into existence.

oh god I hope not. IIRC Li-fen says that she prefers to do her computer stuff than fighting. The novelty of Kombat Kids is short lived, look at MK1 - they deleted them all from the timeline and nobody cares.

My current interpretation of events is that our Q (the playable one in SF3) has managed to regain or retain a part of his humanity after being indoctrinated by G into his Q army. The multiple Qs we see in his SF3 ending are not all him but other people brainwashed dressed in the "Q uniform" (which was Juliana's original deduction). Our Q is trying to figure out what happened to him, who/what is he, and why did all this happen to him. He was spying on Juliana and David at the end because he is just as curious to understand himself - he may in fact be helping them. Is he an abomination or is he a man? The answer lies with G I say.

Which is silly because her transitioning to investigating the Secret Society like what we saw in SF5, and investigating Q is a no brainer! I think the issue with Viper is we already have like 2 other "female police/military investigators" on the roster, and Rashid is probably going to become the tech gadget boy of SF. They even gave her superior catsuit design to Juri. The mother/daughter dynamic she has with Maya? Well that's Chun and Li-fen now. Viper is probably going to be the premiere story NPC moving forward and I hope they can think of something better for her. I'm sure they can find a new angle for our female James Bond/Inspector Gadget.

I can't get my hopes up for Viper after her somewhat prominent role in character stories in SF5. I think Sean (Ken), Elena (flag), and probably Ibuki (graffiti) have the best chances from SF3. Would love Urien and Q but I can't see signs that point to them right now. Elena's Healing would be probably be balanced in SF6. What broke it in SF4 was the Ultra mechanic. I just think she would look amazing in the RE engine. Hopefully Capcom will do her animations justice.

I found their cameo and Elena's in Lily's segment to be foreshadowing.

I'm not sure they will. Like when your Cac talks to JP in the post-credits WTM, he talks about Bosch but makes no mention of the interaction between himself and Cac. Think the Cac will ultimately be relegated as a voyeur of events/canon with no lasting impact on the timeline. I just want to know how Capcom plan to add new plot chapters to WTM.