Please, no. I'm hoping they'll just flesh out her Guard Impact mechanics from SCIV. Like collecting a bazillion successful GIs will give her a super duper Auto-GI glitter explosion with 80 damage. That'd be optional enough and okay with me.
I'm sure they will give graphical updates later down the line if it's that bad.
I remembered she did exactly this in the SCIII opening
I've got to think that her gimmick will have something to do with her counter-into-pressure game. With the arguable exception of Amy's roses, I think it's fair to say that all of the recent gimmicks have been formed in the mold of the character's most obvious traditional strength. In other words, they all make those characters a little more like what they are best known for being. Maybe something that throws on effects into attacks if they are initiated from impact or involve particular timing? Eh, I don't know: she's so not my own style and I'm not a fan of the new wealth of gimmicks, so I'm probably the last person to engineer or accurately predict an engaging unique mechanic for the style.
Another reminder of how good that game was
What about k-pop and strawberries?
Can't speak about other people. But, in a way, idgaf who we get if these rumours are true. Despite some people's gripes, everyone has been interesting so far (except geralt and to an extent 2b, to me personally) so as long as they do as good as they have with the last few characters I'm just happy to get new characters.
We have seen with Amy, Cassandra, and Haohmaru that you can have a similar weapon and still be a completely different experience now. For Li Long, he has two nunchucks but maybe they could do a three sectioned one or something. If Rock came back, I know they'd give him his onslaught mace and a different moveset.
To say nothing of the other dozen characters they have done this with in previous titles.
I would have to think it would be dual nunchuku again. As you probably know, in the U.S. console port of SE, they transformed Long's nunchuks into an approximation of a three-quarter staff purely to get around goofy censorship issues that existed with nunchuks in U.S. media at the time. Or so the communit scuttlebutt has long held-- and its more or less plausible if you are familiar with the legal history of the moral panic surrounding these weapons in the 90's. Anyway, it looked awful, in that a three-quarter staff is an enitrely different type of weapon that uses entirely different motions and biomechanics in its basic application. And even more to the practical side, there's no way they are going to bring back this character after such a long delay and not make him more or less true to his original design--especially in this of all games, and especially if it means having to start a character from scratch rather than using his previous appearances as a strong template, with a moveset built around his legacy moves.