Agree. that’s a terrible idea and it’s risky for SF that making RS characters automatically on the same level of SF characters and the only thing to make it reasonable to those thar favor that is because another fighting games title does that mistake too.
The solution is by treating the RS franchise as a separate universe to the RS within the SF franchise to avoid unnecessary contradictory to SF establish canon.
SF canon is the priority and RS should be the one to have huge adjustment when being integrated to SF canon.
That logic of making a new comer or some guy from nowhere like Kyo automatically better or equal to the likes of Ryo or Terry. was terrible. It’s never been the right thing.
Those that would try to justify RS and SF using KOF as an example by calling it as a “good example” like saying “SNK did it with KOF, So why can’t Capcom apply that too to SF and RS” in an attempt to make that sound reasonable onto how Capcom should deal with RS and SF. When it wasn’t reasonable to begin with. They were always be wrong because KOF was never been a good example and it only cause more complication and inconsistency.
So it should never be applied in SF, because it is wrong and a failure.
We all know that despite Kyo being better than Terry and Ryo cause a lot of inconsistency and confusion to the backstory of KOF and Fatal Fury timeline.
That force idea would be ignored by SNK by treating Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting being separate with KOF universe story and canon.
So in the end whatever SNK accomplish with their fighting game lore isn’t really a solution to the case of SF and RS, The result was a problem and imitating the problem to another similar franchise doesn’t solve it.
Regardless of age inconsistency between Ryo and Terry. Kyo and everything that goes with his character in KOF wasn’t even mentioned or even acknowledge in Garou.
Because Kyo and etc didn’t exist in Garou unlike the AOF characters with Ryo that beat Young Geese.
Because what SNK did was first just ignore the lore then treat is separately as a desperate measure to fix the complicated status it brings.
He still had divided attention compare to the likes of Ryo and Terry that dedicate their lives on training and combat.
However RS and SF exist in the same universe there is still a multiple fail safe here between the merger of SF and RS.
Since Blood type plays an important characterization in Japanese culture which is different from western understanding. That it’s like Zodiac sign or something.
The SF one is A and the other is O in bloodtype. Unless there are two Sakura now existing in SF? which is more complicated.
It’s still safe to assume that this isn’t.
The current SF Sakura backstory doesn’t also acknowledge the events in RS and her involvement.
So we can also assume that some events in RS isn’t canon in SF history.
Capcom already did this
To some characters that recently had CFN profiles like
Something they also did with SF Ruby Heart and Kyle
They may had just been inspired by the other character and having the same name but they aren’t the same exact character, not the same experiences or have no similar backstory
Just treat them like SF own version of that character.
Clearly this is not the same Ruby Heart from Marvel vs Capcom
This Kyle might not be Cody’s brother.
And the events in Final Fight Streetwise didn’t happened and wasn’t canon in current SF story. Final Fight Revenge could also be not a canon.
Another open a can of worms here because of RS in SF
Is the other RS cast that has questionable fighting style which is conflicted to SF established universe and combat.
Capcom should ignore some of the RS cast bellow and treat them as ordinary person not as mystic and fighters
This is just simple like mentioned in the earlier post
The solution is by ignoring major events in RS that this characters above were involved with and were fighting with, like this RS characters was from an alternate universe because their fighting style is ridiculous to be incorporated in SF universe as a legit way of fighting.
I’m really hoping Capcom would not treat this RS characters that appeared in SF the same exact and equal to their original RS counterpart and the Akira were having is different from the Original RS like Sakura is a different character from her RS counterpart.
