Maedhros
[12] Conqueror
Well... Yay. I like her outward design. However, even though some people are saying that story in fighting games is irrelevant, there is no denying its role in appealing a character's personality and motivation to the players. Therefore, if they were to make such a character as two-dimensional as Rock, it wouldn't make for much of a change, would it? That's how I feel, at least.I asked this somewhere else and I thought I'd ask here. How would you feel if a new female fighter replaced Rock as the Americas rep?
What can we even say about Rock? He's easily the most forgettable character in SC that's been a main cast member and everything he does, Astaroth can do but better. His chances of returning here aren't looking good. That said, his exclusion would leave us a problem. In prior games, Rock was the sole representative of the Americas, and having him gone would leave an entire part of the world unrepresented.
So, what if they used this as an opportunity to introduce a new Americas rep. For example, a female Mesoamerican warrior?
Above is Maya from Killer Instinct, an inspiration for the idea.
I was thinking they could create a sexy, warrior-like female character who uses special twin daggers for combat. With magic being more prominent in the actual fighting, maybe she could call upon the mystic Mayan spirits to aid her. That sounds pretty cool. And besides, it'd be nice to get an actual rep from the Americas, as Rock is an Englishman who adopted the Americas as his home as opposed to someone who was really from there.
Yay or nay?
I would also like to say that I have never taken this series' characters as representing various parts of the world, as we have never had an African representative (remember, Zas is originally a Summerian). This kinda makes sense if we remember the significance of the Silk Road for the series. Because of this, I think that the character and story designers are maybe finding it challenging to incorporate in a sensible way characters that are from other parts of the world. They not only have to make a character cool and interesting (which is easily done by appearance design and voice acting alone), but he/she has to make some basic sense as well, at the very least.