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A.K.I. Vs Rashid: “You… You’re the one the master spoke of.”
 
A.K.I. Vs Cammy: “Chasing after Shadoloo remnants? Be careful not to get bitten, kitten.”
 
A.K.I. Vs A.K.I. (Provided by @emezie): Sensei! A.K.I. won! Praise me, pleeease!

I think people are reading too much into what I meant. Being homeless does not mean being poor. There are a lot of people in my city that live out of their cars, work 40+ hours a week, and collect a paycheck. They simply can't afford rent, don't have friends, or family to lean on. Or are too prideful, or stubborn to accept help from loved ones. I know Ryu has money. For decades I was pretty sure that he had a credit card, and cash hidden in his duffel bag. SF6 confirmed that Ken had made sure he was taken care of. When I said Ryu was homeless I meant that he literally lived out of his bag the majority of the year. He chose this path, he could have stayed at his master's temple, and trained in privacy. But he actively sought out the challenge, even if it meant sleeping rough most of his life. 

Yeah, no. Fuck guest characters point blank period. Fighting game franchises have too many characters that are actually apart of the franchise available to waste them on guests. Keep that garbage in MK and Tekken. To borrow a wrestling term it's a "Cheap pop" and it's leads to licensing issues down the line. Especially with this all digital BS on the horizon. Can't wait to see some of these character IP vampires get delisted because they don't want to pony up for the license down the line. Disk drive won't be there to save them.

In case you don't keep up with my blog. I've been doing a deep dive on Street Fighter 6. I brought these up on my Twitter a while back, and finally got a chance to write about them. What were your favorite details in SF6?
 

 

 

Official height comparison if they were not accounting for gameplay. 
 

 
Posted by the Japanese Street Fighter account which also has a recording of it.

I'm expecting her win quotes to be top tier.
 
AKI gives me the chilliest of chills. In a good way.
 
My World Tour run has been awful. I'm still trying to locate my opponents scattered throughout Metro City. 

Never, lol. Interestingly, it's Honda's report about his and Blanka's encounter with ORO.
 
"The locals called him Oro ("gold"). They said that once, if you entered the forest, he often came to snatch your food and your wine, but his last sighting around the village we were staying in was some 15 years before, and he had not been seen since. During our fifth day in the jungle, my companion Jimmy was more lively than his usual, and at one point looked like he had found something and suddenly took a fighting stance staring at the river. That instant, the water's surface exploded and out of it emerged an enormous fish, about 3 metres long, and under it a shining golden-coloured man who held up the fish with a single arm; he fled as if the water didn't offer any physical resistance. The next day, when we talked about what we had seen the day before in another village much deeper in the forest, we understood we had met the fabled Amazonian hermit named Oro. I thought I'd like to fight him once. Jimmy, however, didn't remember anything except the fish, which, according to him, was a delicious pirarucu¹."
 
¹ Pirarucu, or Arapaima (Arapaima gigas) is the giant fish appearing in Blanka's stage since SF2.

Looks like Capcom finally gave a proper name to Retsu's jumping kick.

 
破戒蹴り Hakaigeri, "Precept breaking kick".
That's both a wordplay (usually hakai, when written as 破壊 hakai, means "destruction") and a good reference to Retsu's nature as a "depraved" monk¹ . In Japanese Buddhist doctrine, 破戒 hakai means to consciously break one or more of the precepts. It's a word reserved for the clergy, in this case a Buddhist monk, but it also can be applied to other religions, and in a more broad sense can also mean the breaking of any vow. Tōson Shimazaki's 1906 novel The Broken Commandment's original title was indeed 破戒 Hakai, and here the protagonist breaks the promise made to his late father. Anyway, we don't know what precept(s?) did Retsu violate: his CRI profile just said he was excommunicated for being "turbulent and frequently engaging in private fights", but the list of vows for a Buddhist monk is LONG. If we simply go for the Five Precepts, we know that he likes to drink, as indeed in his Side Story Miharu chastises him because he's drinking sake in the afternoon on a sacred ground where it's already prohibited (lol)...
 
¹ Capcom repeatedly called Retsu 破戒僧 hakaisō, "depraved monk" (literally, "a monk who breaks the precepts"), even in his recent Side Story, とある破戒僧の旅 To aru hakaisō no tabi, "The journey of a certain depraved monk".

The next post is up. Street Fighter 6 took many lessons from the SFII animated movie. It had been used to make some of the best fighting game experiences for decades. Find out how on the blog.  https://streetwriterpodcast.blogspot.com/2023/09/street-fighter-6-master-class-in-game_01844573532.html 

I started MK1 story mode. I played up to Sub-Zero's chapter. Everything so far has been pretty good. The plot is coming along nicely, the humor is landing, the character chemistry is great, some of the character reinventions are great to see.
 
The only thing I haven't enjoyed so far is Megan Fox voice acting. The woman is reading lines not acting.

Hello, @biachunli! Yes, they ARE actually saved in archive.org, just a bit harder to find than usual... Here you go. There are Side Stories about the newcomers of SFIV.
C. Viper "Her Names";
Abel "Before father's grave";
Rufus "Looking for the blonde";
El Fuerte "The super dynamic cook!";
Lauren (Viper's daughter) "Her Family";
Rufus & Candy "Rufus's treat".
I don't have the time to translate these atm, but I know you can do so yourself.

Of course it hasn't, it's BASED ON A WORDPLAY.
武神 Takegami (god of martial arts) can also be read as Bushin. Bushin ryū. They basically used 隆 Ryū (his name) instead of 流 ryū "style"...
 
It wouldn't.
Gobalsky wasn't a link to HnK's Gōda; rather, it was to Sakigake! Otokojuku's シベリアのゴバルスキー Shiberia no Gobaruskī, "Gobalsky from Siberia". He fought with his wolves and was a cowardly villain who then reformed after his defeat and became a comic relief when he enrolled in the Otokojuku.

 
Gobalsky himself was a parody of the boss/father of the Kiba clan in HnK,
 

who could turn his body into steel. Gōda could have influenced Zangief, but definitely not with his name.
Well, it's more complicated than that.
Cerdo in Spanish means "dirty", "slob", "pig". Its feminine form cerda also means... yeah, "slut".
Imagine a good Vulcano Rosso la Troia. Doesn't sound so good anymore, doesn't it? 🤣

This post made me want try dig a bit in teh internet
Did bit of "research" for the lulz, If they want to add some surnames canonizing existing stuff like they did in the past, here’s some potential material they could use


 
RYU

The silly 90’s movie gave us Ryu Hoshi, while Street Fighter Legacy (same people of SF Assassin’s Fist) made up Ryu Takashi… from what i understand reading online not only was named like that after his creator Takashi Nishiyama but there’s also some gimmick going on (i copy-paste from teh internet):

the symbol for the first Chinese character used to spell Nishiyama's name "Takashi(隆志)" can also be pronounced "Ryu(隆)"

Personally would like Ryu Takashi more, sounds badass lol

There’s even a third possible name:

“In the Japanese version of the Capcom arcade quiz game Quiz and Dragons, Ryu's full name is given as Ryu Takegami (武神 隆 Takegami Ryū?), though this has never been referenced in any other media and it is unlikely Capcom considers this his full name officially.”
But tbh should be used as very obscure info about something rarely used (like on situations that require documents), as being an orphan with unknown biological father would refer himself just as “Ryu”


 
CHUN LI

Personally would be perfectly ok with them giving her the 90s movie Chun Li Zhang tbh, super common surname that does’nt disturb much


 
ZANGIEF

Would be fun if they dig back till char prototype phase when he was named “Vodka Gobalsky” lol

Guess not Zangief Gobalsky as i think Zangief is supposed to be a surname i think (being wrestler Victor Zangiev the name inspiration), unless they want consider it his first name

Would like if they somehow use Gobalsky as link to Goda from HnK (did’nt remembered was named like that, just found it while doing bit search) the char that inspired his look/bear theme


 
VEGA (Claw)

We got Vega Fabio La Cerda from SF2V anime, to some extent would even solve the JAP/USA name problem of four kings a bit, as they used it the same in japanese version, essentially Balrog Fabio La Cerda

Only problem i would have with it is that "Vega" in spanish would work as surname, sure not as first name… in fact castilian spanish version changed the name into Fabio Antonio de la Vega… beside changing shit a lot, i like they moved “Vega” last

No idea why they dropped Antonio there totally made up, have more idea why they removed La Cerda: apparently La Cerda was(is?) a real life existing aristocratic spanish family

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_la_Cerda

and the according to wiki ( i don’t remember it) the anime even state that Vega, bloodlusted psychopathic murderer, belong to that family lol

End up find a solution for it may be harder than expected… maybe they could just go for something like Fabio de la Vega? (even if “Fabio” sounds so italian to me lol but still)

But would be too short as spaniards have two surnames (and often two names)… so if we want ignore problems related to “La Cerda” in Spain, possible best could be Fabio La Cerda Vega


 
BALROG (Boxer)

M.Bison as Mike Bison would be perfect, even more if was same Mike of SF1

But SFV destroyed all that confirming Mike as his own character beyond any doubt lol

Tbh would love if was possible just ignore SF1’s Mike, and go for Mike Balrog, but again SFV hate it lol

No idea lol

 
SAGAT

The 90s movie gave us Victor Sagat, but tbh would hate if get canonized lol
Guess they could use manga character and real life thai fighters he was inspired on, but we never got anything

 
BLANKA

Only legit point to start is we know Jimmy is his true name and Blanka a nickname , surname is only piece missing

Maybe they can recycle “Carlos” as second name from 90s movie, like Jimmy Carlos + surname(s)


 

 

Anyone been paying attention to these?
 
 

nah the main character is here
 
 
 

Outside of making the bad guys preorder and DLC as it already mentioned, it also
 
 

Two of DLC characters from the first Kombat Pack are featured prominently in the Story mode. That's not including pre-order bonus Shang Tsung who that applies to as well. It would be like if World Tour Mode had Rashid, A.K.I., and Ed prominently featured in SF6.

Anyone been paying attention to these?
 
 

Anyone been paying attention to these?
 
 

@CESTUS IIII was joking man. That's why used the "wink". I know some American's think they know better than native speakers of a language. I'm just not one of them. My Vincenzo concept only turned out as well as it did because of your input 👍🏾
 
Side Note: Plus this just gave me an excuse to post an image of a Ferrari Testarossa. I loved that car's design as a kid. That and the Lamborghini Countach were my favorite exotics growing up. 

Anyone been paying attention to these?
 
 

Anyone been paying attention to these?