Akuma General Discussion Thread: "I am the Master of the Fist!"

Do I get a prize? Like sayyyyyyy… a clever, witty, yet deeply insightful subtitle for the Bison forum? :bee:

The more footage I watch, the more I feel Akuma’s animations and general movement and heft looks off. He strikes me as perhaps incomplete in the polish department.

Both Ryu and Ken as a basis of comparison are animated fantastically, which is a shame as Akuma tends to have a little more care put into his presentation. Here’s hoping he seems some changes in this area, I recall a couple of Ryu’s animations saw a cleanup on release, in particular his forward throw which during the beta had a weird warping effect as he transitioned from grabbing you and going through the actual throw animation. Speaking of which, Akuma’s forward throw looks very strange - it happens very quickly and seems to have zero heft or impact to it.

we just have to wait till he comes out to see how it feels, looks like we can get used to it

Oh wow, I noticied the gloves in the nostalgia, but I didn’t notice the belt too. I didn’t like the gloves, but damn I don’t like the belt either. Rope belt and gloves are too awesome.

The SFV look has started to grow on me a bit. But i’ll be more likely to use his premium costume than the regular one.

i think i will use his default one more than the nostalgia one, but i’m still going to be using nostalgia every other match because it’s still badass

Akuma is a grown ass man, time to put away the ropes of childhood.

I will be using nostalgia with white hair and probably the code for sexy Akuma. Everything else is WRONG.

like Ryu and Ken? while Gouken fights in barehands!

Those broken ang glowing Akuma wounds were awesome! With glowing hair and aura would make him Oni!

I like the alternate secret version of the nostalgia without the gi, sexy akuma ftw B) , i really want to try this character he looms sick.

Hey is there a discord for Akuma yet?

Welcome to Shoryuken Forums. I don’t know.

lol fair enough.

Fuck discord man… it’s so hard to find shit in one

be better to keep the info here tbh

true

There’s a secret code for his nostalgia?

No, but you can remove the top of his nostalgia costume with a code.

Select Nostalgia costume and hold all punches + lk during loadscreen to select “hot akuma” xD

If it’s the same code as the previous costume code (except for Urien’s), you gotta hold up too.

So PPP, lk and UP to do everyone else’s alt costumes?