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Damn Anti-Chinese racist *checks notes* Stephen Chow! Yeah it's genuinely INSANE that in a game about martial arts and martial arts cinema that a lot of the characters are Asian. Did you know the majority of the HEROES are Asian too? Racist AF.

It ESPECIALLY doesn't make sense when FANG is an overt homage to characters from Chinese cinema. Ah the scourge of Chinese-on-Chinese racism rears its head again!

This is some legit brain-rot from BigMex. Chun-Li, Ibuki, Karin, Maki, Makoto, Mika, Sakura... These are all female Asian characters and none of them are villains. 'Doubling down' on 'Asian female that is a villain' being a...what? A negative stereotype of the "Chinese villain trope"? Are you actually for real? Juri isn't even Chinese so how the hell is it even a 'double down'? Also, is it even then POSSIBLE to make a Chinese villain without this somehow fulfilling some 'negative trope'? It's an absurd statement on the face of it because it completely eliminates an entire ethnicity from being villainous...in a series where the most prominent HERO is also from the same area (and specifically the same country)...and she happens to be the most prominent and influential female in the entire medium. Dude has a lot of good takes...this one however is dumpster-tier.

In a series where two of the most popular and defining characters for the entire genre are... ...Ryu and Ken? 😉 Also I find it funny (and don't remember if I mentioned this before) but in Andy Seto's wacky (and great) Wave Fighter Z, the Not-Guile character is named "Captain Luke". Bizarre coincidence??

That's...not contortionist shit. That's basically a bridge. Like basically the same thing Darun and Seth do. And Darun ain't no contortionist. I can do bridges too. That's leagues different from AKI's bizarre body contortions and slithering movements. Like way different. EDIT: I'll also note that I watched the trailer for the first time last night alongside my friend who is a big Street Fighter fan but very much a 'normie' in regards to lore. He really really liked AKI and did not think she was like Juri. He immediately compared her to FANG and I let him know she was his apprentice. At first he thought she was more similar to Vega cuz of the snake motif and the use of claws as a weapon.

Especially since she seems FAR more interested in the results of her poisons. Hurting people seems almost incidental in a totally insane clinical way. People seem like just test beds for her to see the biological results of her poisons in. For instance, she loves what happens to the avatar character after he's poisoned and has the same kind of deeply obsessed excited reaction...and there was ZERO violence involved in that.

Black and purple are the quintessential villain colors alongside green. Their sadism is also extremely different with Juri being cruel and playful and AKI being weirdly analytical and obsessive. AKI doesn't at all remind me of Chun-Li where-as Juri is clearly Chun-Li + Jolyne. AKI's design is not similar to Chun-li that I can see. Her silhouette is wildly different. Beyond "she's Chinese" I don't see any similar design queues. I mean we have to go WAY back to the barest hints of Chun-Li elements of her being trained by Gen...which NEVER meaningfully entered Chun-Li's actual design in any way whatsoever. She also has nothing to do with Chun's personality and doesn't play off it at all unlike Juri who has clear connections in origin and motivation. This AKI stuff seriously seems like a reach.

I don't see why people keep saying she's like Juri She's not beyond "A girl that is evil". They have very different looks, mannerisms, voices, attitudes, etc.

I would hope this isn't unpopular. SF6 is FAR better in terms of art style than SF5 or SF4, with SF5 having been better than 4 but neither very good. SF6 is quite good.

Alpha era is best era. People can disagree because it's a free country and people are free to be wrong.

Gonna have to check him out to see if they gave him anything unique for moves

I actually made this comparison WAY back when the concept art first leaked 🙂

Yeah hopefully he pops back up to check in

4K SFII:AM is a Day 1 purchase for me. It's the movie I've seen more than any other save for the Transformers animated movie. That movie defined my childhood.

Actually mentioning two and zero has put me in a math mood so let's prove why Bison is weak You know they say that all street fighters are created equal, but you look at Gill and you look at M. Bison and you can see that statement is not true. See, normally if Bison goes one on one with another street fighter, Bison's got a 50/50 chance of winning. But Gill's a genetic freak and he's not normal! So Bison's got a 25%, AT BEST, at beat Gill. Then you add J.P. to the mix, Bison's chances of winning drastic go down. See the Street Fighter 6, Bison's got a 33 1/3 chance of winning, but Gill, Gill's got a 66 and 2/3 chance of winning, because J.P. KNOWS he can't beat Gill and he's not even gonna try! So M. Bison, you take his 33 1/3 chance, minus Gill's 25% chance and you got an 8 1/3 chance of winning Street Fighter 6. But then you take Gill's 75% chance of winning, if they was to go one on one, and then add 66 2/3 per cents, Gill's got 141 2/3 chance of winning against the bosses. See @Daemos, the numbers don't lie, and they spell disaster for Bison in Street Fighter 6.

If we're being totally honest, the math does not work well in Bison's favor Bison has had his physical form destroyed at least twice. Dan has had his corporeal form destroyed ZERO TIMES. Dan > Bison. Hold that L, Bison.

I already liked JP, you don't need to keep selling me on him.

Gameplay is why I play single player. Also, there's not a single fighting game that has a better single player mode that also presents a better story.

True. Ed was kind of a test run for Modern Controls so I expect to see a big revamp for him. I'm very much looking forward to it because his control scheme was my least favorite thing about him

I don't have a good means to get screenshots. Let me see what I can do. I might just transcribe them

I am an unabashed Bison-Trooper fan. Used to always use them when I played the SF Movie Arcade game.

So the Battle Records from Lily's mission chronicle three fights by Thunder Hawk The second one DEFINITELY sounds like him fighting Bison

I mean the thing is that Dee Jay's style is so unique to him with his animations and stuff that I can't disengage the character from his style.

Ed is my kick-boxing rep which is why I'm so hyped for him