was Cassandra ever hinted at in any of the leaks?
Yea she wasvin the original leaked roster..the one from Vergeben's trusted source. So was Seigfried.
^ What Pac said.
I have no idea what they'd be doing with Cassandra though if they felt they wanted to change her any though. I brought it up once before, but an odd and overlooked thing about Cassandra was that she was another character alongside Zasalamel and Talim that were planned and intended to be on SCV, but shit happened. The difference is that with her, they had some crazy idea of giving her a moveset that was a repurposed version of Darth Vader's from SCIV (like how Aeon got a repurposed version of Kratos')
I have no idea if that idea would be revisited for Cassandra on SCVI or that will remain one of those odd cutting room floor things.
But the only reason I could imagine why that was an idea for her was due to her being in Astral Chaos and her character developing to be quite a bit different than the Cassandra of old.
I've touched on it before, but just because I haven't heard anything about Voldo, Raphael, Lizardman/Aeon, Yoshimitsu, Cervantes, and Setsuka yet from my main SCVI source does not mean they
won't be on SCVI.
They don't know
everything. But they do pass on what they do know and hear to me.
In short, not hearing about them yet isn't necessarily some kind of automatic evidence of absence.
We do know straight from Okubo that SCVI will be retelling SC1 and II, and before Okubo even admitted SCII was a part of that, that from my SCVI source that the game will also be including Soul Edge/Blade and SCIII along with the retelling.
Zasalamel's reveal confirmed that SCIII is just as they said, included along with it.
They told me of Tira, who also has been a prevalent villain character ever since her introduction on III. So it's easy to see why her and Zasalamel were two of the SCIII additions they picked.
My not hearing about Setsuka coming back yet, like I said, doesn't mean she isn't, but she also isn't that important to the story, which SCVI is putting a strong focus on. Her being saved as a DLC character wouldn't be surprising at all since they have priorities of who is most and more important to the story that needs to be on the launch roster.
Which brings me to a character like Raphael. He was important to SCII's story. That
should logically guarantee him a spot in the retelling. Especially with Talim coming back (who was never important to the main plot
at all) and Sophitia's sister Cassandra too as SCII reps that I do know about and have heard.
Cervantes was the main villain of Soul Edge/Blade and has stayed fairly relevant to the story and as Ivy's father and foil since her introduction on SC1.
Voldo and Lizardman/Aeon have their dedicated roles as lackey type villains that the story benefits from. Lizardman's appearance leads to be able to make generic ones you could fight in the story as well.
Keep in mind that Astaroth and Lizardmen are who and what attacked Maxi's crew in the original version of the story.
Yoshimitsu's kind of just Yoshimitsu doing Yoshimitsu things. So it'd be surprising to see him not make it only because he never missed a game since introduced on SC1 and is an iconic character for the company doing double duty on Tekken and Soul Calibur.