CESTUS III

AKI surprised me pleasantly I love they did'nt gave her just hot anime girl with white hair, but pushed her aesthetic into albino look with eyebrows and eyelashes... make clear how the FANG poison training put huge stress on her body (getting The Witcher vibes lol), plus that psycho smiling face at 0:41 lol It's nice design detail that while surely she got lot of that poison during her training, she still did'nt had to go through same shit FANG did... her hands did'nt got "mutated", and seems rather than be able to produce poison with her body these little chains on her forearms are soak in it and send it to her artificial claws (wonder if this mean unlike Fang her poison may not be infinite?)... guess either FANG did'nt want to ruin her hands look (he have to conceal his own hands with sleeves) or he invented these metal "gloves" to compensate the fact she did'nt got same amount of years he got to train the poison hand (let alone she may not survive it, survival rate was said to be very tiny) I like also her facial features feeling very chinese, and also her ultra slender builtwith long neck and fluid movements (combined with reptile scales dress) giving her a snake look Could care less about her because would have needed that slot for 99 other things, but i have to admit she's very very well done for what it is Only super small thing that bother me about her is they could have done it without histerical bitch laugh, we got Juri to cover that, would have much prefered her to be just a whispering psychopathic... the part when she explain how poison is going to fuck you up was nice

AKI surprised me pleasantly I love they did'nt gave her just hot anime girl with white hair, but pushed her aesthetic into albino look with eyebrows and eyelashes... make clear how the FANG poison training put huge stress on her body (getting The Witcher vibes lol), plus that psycho smiling face at 0:41 lol It's nice design detail that while surely she got lot of that poison during her training, she still did'nt had to go through same shit FANG did... her hands did'nt got "mutated", and seems rather than be able to produce poison with her body these little chains on her forearms are soak in it and send it to her artificial claws (wonder if this mean unlike Fang her poison may not be infinite?)... guess either FANG did'nt want to ruin her hands look (he have to conceal his own hands with sleeves) or he invented these metal "gloves" to compensate the fact she did'nt got same amount of years he got to train the poison hand (let alone she may not survive it, survival rate was said to be very tiny) I like also her facial features feeling very chinese, and also her ultra slender builtwith long neck and fluid movements (combined with reptile scales dress) giving her a snake look Could care less about her because would have needed that slot for 99 other things, but i have to admit she's very very well done for what it is Only super small thing that bother me about her is they could have done it without histerical bitch laugh, we got Juri to cover that, would have much prefered her to be just a whispering psychopathic... the part when she explain how poison is going to fuck you up was nice

But he's #1 at being honest

you're right, that must be the memory i had we knew FANG did'nt died in the furnace 👍

Don't remember how, but i thought we knew FANG was alive after ASF Maybe was the side story, i think him taking AKI under his wing is supposed to happen after Shadaloo end He also looks different than he does in Shadaloo and Nguhao days, would say definitely older too Also one typical trait of FANG is survive Survived the poison training Survived the massacre of Nguhao Survived the fall in ASF? We seen him fall, but as ridicolous it is we know he have the ability to fly for short distances using sleeves

As expected AKI is stalking Rashid Cool to see Dan getting a draw with Rashid lol

My 2cents GUILE: While will never beat Nostalgia design (wich is only i use currently) would have prefered this as defeault "new look" over the shit he got in SF6, pretty good. 8/10 MARISA: Idk i completely missed the Marisa hype train so i don't have that great attachment to this design becoming reality, but overall i dig it, the imagery will feel like fighting an ancient goddess statue that became alive, i will wait to see if they can nail it ingame 7/10 JURI: Lol when i seen this first time weeks ago in that vid i thought would be Li Fen alt if she ever become playable lol. It's not bad (is even fun they thought to use loose pants cloth to alter silhuette between legs when she kicks) retty typical Juri kind of alt, guess does'nt accomplish much beyond please bit of fetish, wich is usually what Juri alts are about lol. Still wish one day i will get the SF4 Taekwondoo sketch 6/10 DEEJAY: Pretty good, this will look awesome during his Lv3 in particular, very fitting in style and offering something very different As we speak sure will buy Guile and maybe Deejay. Waiting to see Marisa final result PS: hate this 4 costumes bullshit, wish they just release 3rd alt for all, like was for Battle Costume in SFV Of sketches we seen i'm waiting Nayshall JP and Holyday Honda, will sure buy these Need a lot Ryu beardless alt that does'nt suck like nostalgia crap one lol

These are mostly good, wish we got more than 4, post-release content is poor (and over-priced) so far

I think this plan would backfire hard

What a beautiful world would have been

It's not abstract and yet make me think about Pollock stuff

I think the truth may be in the middle... my guess is his soul indeed survive in the ether, maybe not even needing to return home, but he can do this because his original body is still alive and only thing destroyed is a temporary artificial shell (the "Bison bodies" we seen in games), the real Bison is still somewhere projecting his soul/ki and looking for new body to parasite with it Kinda like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_projection (Ryu does same with a part of his soul in SFV, causing Kage to appear in fighters mind) It's interesting he seems to need have planted Psycho Power in advance to use somebody as host later, is as if he turn people into living "radio receiver" Like (copy paste from wikipedia lol) "Radio waves are generated artificially by an electronic device called a transmitter, which is connected to an antenna which radiates the waves.They are received by another antenna connected to a radio receiver, which processes the received signal." Let's take for a moment Bison's gimmick works like that, his original body is the transmitter, everything else are just radio receivers... but to keep the trasmission going on original body should be alive, otherwise the transmission would interrupt as soon the shell body is destroyed 😁 But interesting part is in SF4 prologue Bison accept to be imprisoned in the shell body while it's still closed in the lab growth capsule, and he's even so frustrated by that that push his scientists to release it earlier Make me think if he still have an original body to live in must be in such miserable conditions that he can't do anything with it, otherwise would have likely lived decent life in original body waiting the SF4 shell to be ready to be "piloted" Now that you make me think about it, i'm curious to know in case he will find a perfect host and successfully parasite it, if he will still be forced to keep alive his own original body hidden somewhere attached to machines, or if he know some method to do a full 100% transition and keep exist beyond his original body death

As shameless Akuma hater i would like if that many people smoked him, but sadly is'nt the case When younger Gouken indeed defeated clean Gouki first time, Gouki fucked him up in the rematch and after years Gouken "won" the third by using Mu no Ken, but we have no idea if he actually beated him up or just successfully defended himself using MnK as shield... we do know that right after the match Gouki was'nt injuried but accepted defeat (as he could not harm Gouken as long he got MnK) and left Beside first, follow up become them one-oup each other with a new technique: Gouki with SGS in SF2, Gouken with MnK in SF4, Gouki is working on new one in SFV (to pierce through MnK)... my fear is ultimately Gouki will manage to kill Gouken as set up for Ryu vs Gouki Gen was able to give him competitive fight but Gouki left when realized Gen, who was sick of leukemia, would not be able to fight 100% (implied Gouki would have likely won, but the disease interfering with the outcome would have not made it a "pure victory") Oro an Gouki both agreed to interrupt the fight as some sort of draw, as they both realized the outcome of the fight would have been mutual destruction BONUS: We may have Garuda making Akuma literally escape with tail between legs, but being SFEX events from there are not canon in actual SF main chapters story, even if at this point the characters themselves are canon to exist (Darun being canonized in SFV) So we have Garuda likely to exist somewhere in SF world, but we can't know if in a re-written SF fight they would give it same outcome of SFEX

Considering he's supposed to be old as fuck and does'nt trust his own body as fitting to be used for fighting, more likely

Tbh both can be true EH is surely chasing these outrage clicks, but devs words don't seem to contradict much how SF6 interface by design seems to encourage people toward Modern over Classic

Thought we are far from her release (mid october was my guess) full reveal would be bit awkward... maybe a teaser? But tbh we seen more bizzarre stuff lol, they may just throw a trailer for th lullz of generate hype at big event

The bad part to me is that the head of the project seems to give no fucks about classic having modern as priority Modern there was never in doubt, classic could have been

Idk about america, but here in europe (Daemos is french) it's full holydays period, maybe he's on travel and want take a break from the forum for a bit

Also how talk about some in the team being "old players" as if he's distancing himself from them Another from different interview Director Nakayama: We might be quite unique in that regard. A producer and director being so friendly with each other, and on top of that, Matsumoto really loves Street Fighter. So we realized in the office that "If it makes Matsumoto happy, it will make our customers happy", and that was our approach for a lot of what we did. Matsumoto loves Street Fighter, what a strange thing lol Idk, every time Nakayama open mouth feels to me he does'nt give fucks about SF legacy

"Nakayama then adds a line about how he and his team could have made modern controls the only option, perhaps implying how numerous the more casual fan base is. This statement paired with a follow up from Matsumoto makes for a sentiment that may make classic control diehards a bit nervous for the future of the franchise. Director Nakayamaa: To put it bluntly, we could've just made the game without Classic Controls at all if we wanted to. But that would have forced this ideal upon all of the legacy fans and caused a lot of problems that way instead. On the development staff we actually have a lot of 'old players', and a lot of them said 'I don't like you calling it Classic Controls!'. So we figured we'd just have it all in there and let the players settle it in matches which is better." https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2023/jul/27/sf6-director-game-classic-controls/

Lmao at Nakayama saying he could have done SF6 modern only So much respect for fans that keept SF alive

Damn, you're right 😮 Iirc you said also SF4 Abel one comes from there Capcom seems to love it a lot lol, also in SF6 we got another spinning throw used by big body NPCs and i think maybe also Zangief Lv3 add it on ultimate version he does'nt spin himself, but make you spin 😁

Found a vid of the guy, he's the one running here at begin lol

Speaking of items, the new Nayshall tournament shows even more how much Capcom is holding back on give us access to very basic pieces LOT of the NPCs had unique cool parts or color schemes we can't create