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Itās not that she can cancel her overhead thatās interesting. Itās how the fact that she can do it pushes the ārulesā of SamSho to their limits. Cancelling her overhead command normal into 623+A makes it effectively safe. If I recall correctly, she can actually set up her command grab super from this. Itās one of the things that made her top tier in VI. Honestly, part of me just wants to see how sheāll far in a game without VI Spirit or IV Spirit powering her meter.
Hereās the final SamSho JP poll tally from Perry.
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I approve of Kusaregedo and Suzuhime being in this top ten. The former should have been this gameās big man.
Itās good to see someone from Warriors Rage make the poll. The game is shit but the game has some of the best character design in the series.
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I have my doubts about 'Gedo ever making it into another SamSho. That kind of design is just plain hard to balance. Either he ends up top tier again, or all the balancing makes him low tier.
I like Seishiro Kuki very much, as well as but maybe with Yoshitora already in, thatād be too many āprotagonist charactersā in a single game.
I donāt think that will be an issue for this series. Hao is a pretty awful protagonist as thereās nothing to him other than wanting a good fight. Nakoruru is usually the one that focuses on dealing with the plot.
The other protagonist characters could easily assist her
I always thought Amakusa was popular. Guess I was way off on that.
Hope he makes it in at some point.
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I was just thinking and, wellā¦ itās actually Mortal Kombat the series that has the better and most appealing character roster, when it comes to the dynamics.
Thereās first the always entertaining Cage/Sonya storyline. Then, whatever is happening with the Shaolin monks Liu Kang and Kung Lao. Then the Sub-Zero/Scorpion rivalry and whatever is happening with the Lin Kuei. Then thereās Raiden and his larger than life presenceā¦ and also the bad guys usually have a lot going onā¦ Shang Tsung, Quan Chi, Shao, Kotal, Dāvorahā¦ thereās always a lot going on in these games, compared to games like SF and KOF where more than half of the characters are fillers without an actual storyline.
MK might not have the best characters but they sure try to make the best out of them to keep everything interesting.
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Itās not really surprising as fighters donāt need stories. The most it will ever need is whatever excuse plot it can crap out. If plot mattered for Sam Sho half its roster wouldnāt be around.
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Isnāt the backgrounds for most SamSho character a variation of either ādrunk man who wants to stab someoneā, āgood guy who wants to do good things by stabbing someoneā or āIām a huge weeb, therefore Iāmma stab someoneā, with some demons thrown in?
Lol at Mina in first place. A character nobody likes playing against. The Axl of SS. Also I had to google up yoshino and suzuhime. Apparently they are both little girls with oversized swords? Wtf?
Meanwhile Zankuro at 18 and Mizuki at 19.
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The first 2 SamShos were so poorly translated you could only guess at the plot, but there was one there. Kind of important for aesthetic anyway to drive the character designs to stay anchored to the setting/period (within reason).
I think aesthetic must be a bigger deal than we are normally concious of, and having some sort of plot probably makes it easier to come up with a style guide.
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From a design perspective, it is. That stuff lets you focus your creativity in productive directions.
Good creative efforta come from eliminating variables, not granting more freedom. There are a bunch of articles on this, that and the 3rd.
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Good. Every game needs a character that can play lame.
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Yoshino from Warriors Rage was actually popular enough that someone turned her 3D model into a MUGEN character.
If people donāt like playing against lame characters, then they shouldnāt play SamSho in the first place.
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I donāt see the parallel as I love playing as and fighting against Axl in Guilty Gear. Eddy for me is the black sheep.
I agree with you here, I have nothing against āālameāā characters. Just that the conversation was about waifus before, and this is what i was getting at. Eg. Mina and Iroha at the top for their āāpersonalitiesāā and two lolis Iāve never heard of before two awesome boss characters.
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I look forward for Iroha. Hopefully.
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If they get more people to play the game because of the waifu factor, then thatās all that really matters.
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