There's a dimension out there in which the latest SC game is the perfect cocktail of 2's music and costume variety, 3's single-player content and newcomer quality, 4's... something, 5's stages, and 6's, you know, actually good gameplay/tight character balance.
Kinda worried for the possibility of a SamSho crossover. It wouldn't at all carry the hype of drawing new blood from a popular mainstream franchise (as with literally every other guest in the series), and feels more like just shoving two underdog fighters together in the hope that players of one...
Lovely art, she looks super cute. Is it in full anywhere yet?
I think Kawano does better art with the more adult characters though, both Amy and Talim look a bit bland in the face next to the more, uh, "mature" women like Taki and Ivy. But no matter. Just please Christ, Okubo, don't pull a IV...
What killed it for me was how half-assed and arbitrary the skip seemed. They just didn't commit to it, a third of the cast stayed exactly the same with one flimsy excuse or another ("stopped ageing", huh, Ivy?) while others disappeared completely. And neither of these quibbles are as offensive...
I don't mind Inferno at all: his design is neat, he probably took very little dev time to translate into a playable character, and O N E mimic is fine by me. It's a nice little nod to him having been playable way back when too, which is nice.
Raph looks lovely in action. Still over the moon that he made base.
The DLC thing is troubling though. I mean, Hwang, sure. A legacy character we haven't seen in a while, with a fully unique and historically accessible move set? I'd happily pay for that. But Lizardman, really? Who the hell...
This is absolutely what I wanted to see. Leaks happen -- own it, laugh it off, engage the community with a bit of self-deprecation. That's better PR than enforcing radio silence.
Anyway, fucking hell Cerv looks amazing in this game.
Kinda worried about the DLC spots now, since the Azwel leak was pretty strong on Hwang, Tira, and Lizardman being in the files as fighters. Lizardman especially is a terrible DLC choice, since you can quite literally play as a lizard man from a race of lizard men at launch; locking the actual...