The trailer was literally a minute of Geese countering shit, and it was still so awesome. I thought maybe my video player was glitched for a second haha.
He’s about 19 seconds into the trailer, amidst the sea of “PREDICTABO!”. Since his appearance is so short, here’s the exact timestamp. He rounded out the Fatal Fury team getting their attacks countered.
Perhaps Joe wasn’t quite ready to be shown off. Maybe they hadn’t done enough of his animations to show off. Or perhaps SNK is just partaking in an April fools prank, and wanted to see if peeps even noticed him. Thoughts?
Yo, y’all hear that hot new piece by MC Raging Storm? Coming at you straight from Geese’s tower, here’s his new number one hit…Predictabo!(I stain muh hand wit your bru)
Considering how passive Geese is with blowing him away, I think it’s safe to say that was fully purposeful and intended. Whether they have his animations in, hair animated, whatever, I think it was just a fun way to play around with his classically light-hearted characterization.
Agreed about them looking similar. Looking at the animations of the returning characters from XIII (especially Ryo’s and most of Andy’s), it looks like most them are exactly the same animations used by the 3D models that were part of the pixel animation process for XIII. The small details, like how Andy spins a little during his Kuuhadan, or the windup of Ryo’s Ko’oh Ken animation.
It’s definitely not a bad thing (saves the devs time too) and I liked the animations from XIII. I found K’s movements / animations from XIII very unique and expressive of who he is.