Shermie makes a cameo appearance from time to time in the Paris stage in KOF13. Also Mature and Vice got killed a long time ago, but were still brought back from the dead in a non-Dream Match game.
-it shouldn’t take 5 fuckin years to put Rolento in sf4.
-no gato, malin, oswald, and especially Adel in Kof13. to a lesser extent, jenet, jazu, gai and silver.
this makes no sense at all seeing how kof2003, kofxi and kof13 was all about the tales of Ash saga along with a new fresher cast. instead, they have to put back bum ass characters like mai, andy, vice and mature. snk, stop trying to follow sf4’s footsteps and trying to go old school.
-no cyclops, psylocke, gambit and bison in marvel 3.
-donovan didnt return in darkstalkers 3.
-charlie should have made the cut in cvs2.
-same with sodom and eagle in sf4. sodom should have made it in cvs2 also. (he’ll be top tier for sure)
Don’t forget, Chris shows up in one of the backgrounds also. I think it’s the Britain stage with the buses with B.Janet.
The storyline reasons were cooked up after the fact to cover up the real reason (lack of memory, as you noted). Funamizu stated in an interview that all 3 of them were originally intended to be in. Huitzil even has a couple small leftover portraits and a palette in Savior’s data, and his Savior 2/Hunter 2 sprites are heavily redrawn compared to Night Warriors/Hunter; enough to where I doubt it was all done in the couple months after Savior’s initial release.
Interesting factoid: Dee as seen in the PS2 Collection was also a rejected idea from Savior’s development. Demitri headswap and all. That might have been an attempt at finding a way to squeeze him in without using up much memory.
Huitzil was good, his Gradius mode super is really abusable. Even has a bizarre glitch where if you trade hits with it you instantly eat a couple dozen hits of laser for some reason.
Finally, someone said Eagle.
I was hoping for him in the next iteration of SF4 back in Super. Two iterations come after that, and nope.
Don’t really think I’d main him, but I thought he’d be an interesting addition to the roster as far as gameplay was concerned.
Bangoo not being in SCV.
Granted he was never playable he has been a part of Rock’s story and the fact he didn’t show up in V just seems like a hugely missed opportunity.
Bangoo is too American for Japan
And Mitsurugi is too Japanese for Korea.
Pretty much the entire cast from Toshinden not making Toshinden 4. Although, that wasn’t so bad, seeing as how terrible Toshinden 4 was.
Mai was left out in KOF XII I believe, that was a pretty wierd choice.
Charlotte from Samurai Showdown was also left out for a while.
Didn’t they have some excuse about not being sure they could put her in without the game getting an M rating?
And Maki, and Eagle.
No Psylocke, Doom, and Juggie in Marvel Superheroes vs Sf…which was supposed to be the cast of MSH vs random sf characters. Then in mvc2 we got Psylocke with a non-vacuum version of her Maelstrom. Fuck you, capcom.
No Mitsuko in any Bloody Roar sequels.
No, I just meant that Raptor would enjoy being the undisputed king of savior.
Urien and Q would have to be reworked a bit but I feel like they could make it on the SF4 engine.