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Good info. That said it is my impression that characters that are introduced as kids sometimes remain somewhat shorter that usual, to keep their familiar look (an example would be Krillin; a counterexample would be Aang). Li-Fen could easily be in her mid teens and be short forever.
 
Also I remember figuring that the SF5 models had a multiplier to height difference of like 1.5-ish against Ryu for visual exaggeration*. As in, a character whose height was 200cm in his bio (25cm taller than Ryu) would have a 3d model around 210cm (35cm taller than Ryu). By this logic an apparent 20cm difference between Li-Fen and Chun Li in their 3d model could mean just 10-15cm difference in bio and put Li-Fen at slightly over 150cm.
 
*I don't remember the real number I came up with.

Not sure if these have been shared on here. But these are the only other World Tour cinematics that can be seen on if you highlight the World Tour menu in the beta. It has your character avatar meeting Chun-Li and Li-Fen for the first time.
 
My guess is either the character avatar gets his ass beat by Bosch, or he gets ambushed by Mad Gear. But afterwards, Chun-Li offers you a hand. And LOOK HOW POLITE AND CUTE LI-FEN'S BOW IS!!!
 
 
Also gives us a better look at Li-fen and Chun-Li and how Li-Fen has grown up since SF5 and SF3. Maybe might give us a little more insight into how old she is, and by that logic, give us more of an idea of how long the time skip was from Street Fighter 3 to Street Fighter 6.
 

 

 

 
 
Judging on these pics, as well as some from the initial trailer, as well as Capcom's New Years Artwork, it looks like Li-Fen's standing height is around or a little above Chun-Li's shoulders. Chun-Li's official height is 5'6.5" / 169 cm. I myself am about the same height 5'7" / 170 cm. So just going off of estimation, my guess is that Li-Fen's height in SF6 looks to be between 55-58 inches, roughly between 4'7" - 4'10" / 140-147 cm.
 
Now, I know it's not ideal to compare video game characters with IRL data and statistics. But just basing off Li-fen's height, my guess is that Li-Fen is between 10-12 years old in Street Fighter 6. Estimates taken from Standford Childrens Hospital webpage - https://www.stanfordchildrens.org/en/topic/default?id=normalgrowth-90-P01625
 
So comparing that to her height in SF5 (4'1" / 125 cm), that would be the average height for girls between 6-8. So it would be safe to assume that the time skip from SF3 to SF6 could range between 4-6 years. Li-Fen's at that age where she's almost a teenager, but she still relies on and is still attached to Chun-Li. I'm guessing that the older she gets, the more she's gonna want to be her own independent person and fighter, which would set her up to be a playable character maybe in a future game. 
 
 

Adaptations of video games (and other media previously seen as inferior and "butcherable" like Cestus pointed) have been doing good lately, so who knows. One can be cautiously optimistic about it.

@CESTUS III
 
1- We will see Tom and know why Urien hates him?

I didn't even know Urien hates him. Where is this from?
 
2- Since we will almost surely see Menat, Maggio will be with her or SF6 will forget SFV lore? Timeskip would make them ready to fullfill the JoJo Caesar-Joseph role they was designed for (my guess being Maggio will likely be just a NPC in Menat area at best)

But I want Rose!
 
3- Eagle owning the company that helps Ken, mean we will see an old Eagle as NPC or even playable char (NPC imho mor likely) ?
 
I really hope Eagle comes back and that JP doesn't fulfill the gentleman quota.
 
4- There's more to know about SFV Byron?

Missed opportunity to make him an Illuminati double agent. Maybe he will come back...
 
5- Necalli is truly gone forevah? (highly likely)
 
I think Necalli is going to be SF6's Seth. The villain from the previous game back with a vengeance and a killer upgrade/update.
 
6- Will they take SF6 as chance to resurrect the idea of Gen's disciple looking for revenge?
 
Someone needs to help kill Akuma.
 
7- What's current Bison situation?
 
The last host body is currently regenerating in a super secret abandoned underground Shadaloo facility in the Gobi desert. Everything is proceeding as he has foreseen. S2!
 
8- What's G origins and real look (beside the farce he does for people)?
 
I think this warrants its own arc. There is so much potential.
 
9- We will know the reason behind G and Q similarities?
 
See above.
 
10- Is Belger alive/active?
 
Cyborg Belger running an underground ring in world tour mode would be icing on the cake!

Going to play and reply these
 
1- Akuma and Gouken situation (ideally Gouken dies to propel story forward)
Yeah, sadly i think the obvious way to push the ansatsuken family drama forward is have SF6 Akuma spear being able to go through Gouken's SF4 shield and kill him
Not sure if Gouken need or not to be playable in SF6 for that, can die as NPC too
2- Akuma paternity test
Not necessary a fan of this, but my opinion is the idea of Akuma being Ryu's father at least crossed their mind, guess would at least further justify their boring obsession for Akuma as undisputed figure that need to be solved before we can move on.
Guess narrative wise this -my opinion- would have weaker effect now that Ryu seems an old ass grown man rather than the still youthful figure he had till SFV, for that kind of drama i think the son needs to look somehow in a younger side (see Jin punching dad and grandpa in TK)
3- Did Oro train Ryu after SF3?
Guess they can go for a middle way IF they want, like make that Ryu somewhere in the timeskip had the chance to meet Oro and train under him for some time, but of course not the years of training Oro had in mind in his quotes. We seen Ryu does'nt seem to have changed much his own ansatsuken style in favor of a Oro contamination, if anything SF6 Ryu moved closer to Gouken than he previously was in SFV (just like he was in SF3)
But the interesting part is his Shin Shoryuken (basic lv3 super) use some red ki, wich can be something Oro helped him to develop or simply Ryu started developing on his own Ansatsuken path approaching the kind of skills (in and out SnH) Goutetsu was said to have
4- Urien ending 3S
I like that ending, Urien attempting to kill Gill with an explosion (after being unable to kill him in direct combat) would make even more sense now that SFV changed the canon dynamic between them.
The outcome would be Urien as indipendent player with his scientists and resources, working as a rival of Secret Society
5- Twelve ending 3S
If they want to keep use these white rubber puppets, they better remember this ending wich was the only thing to make them interesting... btw is important consider iirc Twelve is'nt the only that had self awareness awakened by the power up, was hinted a more advanced model had same thing going on, even if we seen only Twelve
6- White pupils. Who gets them and why? Bison and Dhalsim have then because god tier transcendent super humans, but Rolento and post Shadaloo Sagat? Makes no sense for them.
Doubt will be adressed in SF6, as it's been long time around and they never bothered
Btw there's the anime visual explanation where no pupils mean soulless or able to conceal their soul/emotions wich guess can work for lot of characters... Bison for obvious reasons, Sim due meditation, Rolento due battlefield war shit he seen in his life, Sagat being depressed/obsessed by revenge (the scar it's also a scar on his soul)... then you have an happy guy like Hakan sporting it, and you realize it's just stylistical choice and once in a while Capcom love drop a char with that
7- Who pays for Ryu’s costs of living and transportation.
We already know that, it's already canon
Ryu does small jobs here and there where he can use his strenght (construction, bouncer etc) and occasionally bet money on himself in underground fighting stuff
8- If G was the final boss for the post-ASF era in SF5 does that mean that Gill was the one to beat him? Does this mean G’s story is done? Or is this all confusion and G was planned to be a future villain?
Gill defeated him in SFV, but this in no way mean G story is over
Gill does'nt do anything to prevent G to keep do his spread the message stuff
9- Bison and Vega’s relationship. There is juice and tea here that they ain’t spilling. Is Bison his father figure? 
You know better than me that this is 100% fan fiction, and that anything in that direction so far has been fanfiction stuff
10- Ross “time travel” cliffhanger. Like who does that without an explanation?!
I think is one of the possible solution for the "World is doomed" vision that G had and seem to be correct as later Rose had it too
It can truly have 99 applications, from simply Rose canon story having a "small" change of past events to prevent moons from happen*, up to huge move to reboot SF back to when Ryu and Ken had more marketable age lol
 
*wich could mean ASF never happened either and Shadaloo in the changed future still exist in its post-SF4 Dictator+Vega and Rog version
11- JP’s source of PP knowledge/skill 
This is a cool one and pretty sure to some extent will be explained in SF6
12- who and why is Q? Where? How?
More interesting to me is what link there's between G and Q, specially now that we know SF6 is post-SFV but also post-SF3
13- Remy’s dad
Tbh have some doubts they will even resurrect Remy beynd make him NPC in Manon's area, solve also his never seen unknown father feels a further stretch... but surely could be interesting if they ever do, Remy's father is already cooler than Remy lol
14- what happened between Alex and Gill. Has Gill gone full televangelist? Is Alex a believer? Alex is the fire herald?
-Alex defeated Gill (bonus points if they confirm Gill somehow trolled/jobbed for his own gimmick plans)
-Yes he did, we see giant signs of Secret Society message in SF6 MC main square. They became an official cult/religion
-No. If anything from existing characters i think G could have more chances for a bunch of reasons
15- jessica and Cody?
Good question. Marlowe and Cody though?
16- Obvious one but SF2/Alpha 3 overlap shitshow. Maybe a solution or retcon
It's gone, let it go
"Stuff happened"
17- Ed’s fate
Well, will be indeed his SF6 arc
Interesting how SF6 Ed as chara design seems to have already moved on, past Falke nightmares
But tbh we have just a concept sketch
Very curious to see also if we guessed right about Ed and JP link
 
 
Mine are
 
1- We will see Tom and know why Urien hates him?
2- Since we will almost surely see Menat, Maggio will be with her or SF6 will forget SFV lore? Timeskip would make them ready to fullfill the JoJo Caesar-Joseph role they was designed for (my guess being Maggio will likely be just a NPC in Menat area at best)
3- Eagle owning the company that helps Ken, mean we will see an old Eagle as NPC or even playable char (NPC imho mor likely) ?
4- There's more to know about SFV Byron?
5- Necalli is truly gone forevah? (highly likely)
6- Will they take SF6 as chance to resurrect the idea of Gen's disciple looking for revenge?
7- What's current Bison situation?
8- What's G origins and real look (beside the farce he does for people)?
9- We will know the reason behind G and Q similarities?
10- Is Belger alive/active?

I’m bored so bear with me. Here is a list it SF canonical matters that are up in the air that should hopefully be addressed in the upcoming era:
 
1- Akuma and Gouken situation (ideally Gouken dies to propel story forward)
2- Akuma paternity test
3- Did Oro train Ryu after SF3?
4- Urien ending 3S
5- Twelve ending 3S
6- White pupils. Who gets them and why? Bison and Dhalsim have then because god tier transcendent super humans, but Rolento and post Shadaloo Sagat? Makes no sense for them.
7- Who pays for Ryu’s costs of living and transportation.
8- If G was the final boss for the post-ASF era in SF5 does that mean that Gill was the one to beat him? Does this mean G’s story is done? Or is this all confusion and G was planned to be a future villain?
9- Bison and Vega’s relationship. There is juice and tea here that they ain’t spilling. Is Bison his father figure? 
10- Ross “time travel” cliffhanger. Like who does that without an explanation?!
11- JP’s source of PP knowledge/skill 
12- who and why is Q? Where? How?
13- Remy’s dad
14- what happened between Alex and Gill. Has Gill gone full televangelist? Is Alex a believer? Alex is the fire herald?
15- jessica and Cody?
16- Obvious one but SF2/Alpha 3 overlap shitshow. Maybe a solution or retcon
17- Ed’s fate

 
please add more if you can think of anything, but SF6 has a lot to answer for before introducing new or bigger questions 

With so many characters, it's always so weird to read story summaries of just a couple bullet points per game.

With so many characters, it's always so weird to read story summaries of just a couple bullet points per game.

With so many characters, it's always so weird to read story summaries of just a couple bullet points per game.

With so many characters, it's always so weird to read story summaries of just a couple bullet points per game.

Hey everyone, thanks for the kind words! I'm not a translator so I was a bit worried about messing some things up but I think I did a decent job getting across what Nakayama and the others were trying to say. Just popping my head in here to link a massive twitter thread I've just made of every SF5 character's developer comments from the Climax Arts book as I'm sure many of you will appreciate some of the stuff in them. 
 
https://twitter.com/Scotia834/status/1629943235450732544?s=20

@ScotiaI see you fam. Interesting thread.
 
 

Uhmm... this is 200% offtopic, but since this thread is where I post the most I figured I'd share with you.
 
Too Long Wont Read version: I love the Mythica series of Sword & Sorcery films, there's a Kickstarter for a sixth film going on and I just put my ass to work and did some pixel fanart for the occasion.
 
 
 

Uhmm... this is 200% offtopic, but since this thread is where I post the most I figured I'd share with you.
 
Too Long Wont Read version: I love the Mythica series of Sword & Sorcery films, there's a Kickstarter for a sixth film going on and I just put my ass to work and did some pixel fanart for the occasion.
 
 
 

Uhmm... this is 200% offtopic, but since this thread is where I post the most I figured I'd share with you.
 
Too Long Wont Read version: I love the Mythica series of Sword & Sorcery films, there's a Kickstarter for a sixth film going on and I just put my ass to work and did some pixel fanart for the occasion.
 
 
 

Chun-Li: Yatta, bitch.
 

I wish they had remembered that when they wrote the story mode of Street Fighter V

I wish they had remembered that when they wrote the story mode of Street Fighter V

I wish they had remembered that when they wrote the story mode of Street Fighter V

I wish they had remembered that when they wrote the story mode of Street Fighter V

Yeah, coming up with ways to  make sense of things is fun, but at the end of the day those games were made by different people, the story is not a priority, there's the conflicting character endings to start with... if we don't accept that some things change or were not supersolid in origin we end up with logic such as “this character was dead according to an old and forgotten source, but he is alive in the latest game, thus it is a robot impostor”.

Yeah, I can imagine Guile using 2-handed Sonic Boom forever because that's how he wants to do it, in the most effective way, not because he can't throw them one handed.
 
He'd only use one hand when he wants to throw them in quick succession, aka Vtrigger1.

Nah, it's what it says on the plaque, a memorial of the revitalization of Metro City, i.e. kicking Mad Gear asses.

Nah, it's what it says on the plaque, a memorial of the revitalization of Metro City, i.e. kicking Mad Gear asses.