H-H-H-HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER! (already?)
234: Maggio
Another family member, awesome. This guy’s sister is a real doll.
Final Fight mini series pls, Final Fight mini series with some backups on the iconic thugs plsplsplspls
All of these characters have been a concept for some time.
I want italian male rep and i get this douchebag lol
Dad look legit, even if they could have invented more decent costume lol
Mom costume/haircut could be recycled as very nice alt for Elena
Brother is terrible lol
This time we introduce a kid with special issues.
He doesn’t seem like someone able to fight
but he’s studying some power, apparently.
Name: Maggio¹
Height: 167cm
Weight: 52kg
Blood type: 0
Birthday: August, 5
Country of Origin: Italy
Favorite things: His Sister, Yo-yo
Dislikes: Dark Places
He’s a young man who’s searching for his disappeared older sister.
Just when his parents were about to accept the fate of his sister,
he heard of a fortuneteller who could see into the future.
Maggio was only a boy back then, but all alone
kept walking for days up to Genoa,
where the “palace of miracles” was.
He’s currently learning fortunetelling together with a senior apprentice²
under the mistress of the palace, while continuing to search for his sister.
He never lets go of his yo-yo,
because it was a present from his sister.
Sniff, what a sobbing story…
…But pink hair and Italian origin
just reminded me of someone I think I met somewhere.
The infirmary… it was? I forgot.
¹ Italian, “May”. Which doesn’t agree with his birth month… Anyway, Italy is now officially “the land of absurd hair” according to Capcom. Not even Guile’s family could compete. :lol:
(and I expect Guile’s wife to come soon)
² Come on, we all know it’s Menat.
It would make sense for Menat to pester Ed even in her story mode: after all, Ed could know where Aprile went, or she could be a member of his Neo-Shadaloo. So Aprile is still missing months after Shadaloo’s fall, apparently…
I remember reading somewhere that Aprile had a brother called Maggio that was looking for her.
Jesus Christ, he looks like a dumbass, if I was Aprile I’d rather stay a brainwashed commando under Bison that being saved by someone looking like that.
Look! Even the CFN portal says this guy has issues!
Sometimes I think that Capcom is under the impression that Italy is populated entirely by JoJo characters.
After all, he still carries that old yo-yo… I know Japanese love brother-sister incest stories, but DAMN.
I’d love to see Iori Yagami beat the shit outta Maggio for fun.
Also, I’m pretty sure that Capcom is still somehow mixing up Genoa and Venice, because everything related to Rose and her stages are obviously set in what looks like Venice but both her birthplace and apparently her home are said to be in Genoa.
Genoa looks nothing like Venice, it’s also on the other side of the country facing a completely different sea, stop mixing them up already!
Of course they are still mixing them up.
Even the Venice stage was discarded because Rose was not going to show up anymore…
Perhaps in SF World they’re actually the same city??!!? 
It would make sense. In the Street Fighter Universe every Italian city has mandatory watery canals built in them for the gondolas to pass, even if the city is inland or in the middle of the mountains, and everyone has absurd JoJo inspired hair because JoJo references are like tits, they’re inherently good and there’s always a good reason to shove some in.
Wich is not a problem by itself, it’s about pick the correct ones =)
#VRossoBless
Not smartest idea, kid is studying fortunetelling.
He will see it coming and pay* V.Rosso as bodyguard that day.
Iori die like Honda’s brother.
Then SNK lose one of his most precious jpop bitches.
Bad outcome from a stupid idea imho
*16 euro, but Rosso accept it anyway as a good “i saved this kid from a pedo punk” link to Rose’s and Aprile’s grateful boobs
#VRossoBless
I came across a rather interesting part of Alpha 3 after revisiting Guy’s story.
When Guy encounters Gen, Gen mentions that Guy’s pursuance of Bison could interfere with his fight with Akuma. Gen believes he has no choice but to kill Guy because of this.
The dialogue:
Akuma isn’t Bison, nor do they have anything to do with each other. How exactly would Guy seeking Bison potentially ruin Gen’s opportunity at fighting Akuma again? Gen said he had the match planned, so I’m guessing he was expecting to find Akuma, or somehow lead Akuma to a location. The way it’s worded, Guy’s interference would possibly divert Akuma’s attention, ruining Gen’s chance at fighting him. Maybe something else, but I’m not sure right now. Seems peculiar to me.
@Miðgarðsorm
If it isn’t too much trouble, would you mind translating Guy’s dialogue with Gen?
Spoiler
I know you’re in the middle of translating other things, so this can wait. I just want to see how it compares to the Alpha 3 translation.
Back to a serious discussion, I though a bit about this.
It seems that the Dolls have lost their memory because of their brainwashing. It’s not something that happened just to Cammy as Juni too suffered from amnesia when she waked up in Cammy’s ending in SSFIV. Juli too seemed to have lost her memories in T. Hawk’s ending, before suddenly reappearing in Shadaloo base back under Shadaloo’s control during ASF with no explanation to what happened to her between SFIV and SFV (I guess Shadaloo snatched her back after that ending, it’s also good to know I have to come up with explanations for what’s happening in the Street Fighter story rather than the games themselves).
Reasonably Aprile is where Cammy is right now, which I assume is at Delta Red after having sorted out that innocent escapade with Juri. It’s probable that Aprile doesn’t remember a thing about her past, including her brother or that he’s searching for her, nor I think Maggio can possibly know that her sister is no longer under Shadaloo control (if he ever knew about Shadaloo at all) or where she is now. That’s probably why Aprile is still “missing” from Maggio’s perspective, he doesn’t know where to look for and Aprile doesn’t know she’s been searched for.
Just a few thoughts I had. I doubt this story will actually be carried over to the games. It doesn’t seem that Capcom is paying particular attention to the Dolls’ continuity, if that accident with Juli between SFIV and V is anything to go by.
Also, it irritates me how Juli is still supposed to be T. Hawk’s love interest while Noembelu, the actual Indian doll, still lacks any sort of connection to him.
When I first saw T. Hawk’s SF4 ending, I assumed Juli not only lost her memories, but also her ability to talk. The old couple said she did nothing but stare out of the window all day. Once I saw her back with the Dolls, I figured she must’ve been in some sorta “standby” state where she couldn’t function like a normal person because the Psycho Power influence was still active…with no one in control. Unlike Juni, she wasn’t actually released from the Psycho Power brainwashing.
I suppose when Bison and F.A.N.G. continued their normal activities, Bison resumed control and drew Juli back to the Shadaloo Base. That’s the explanation I’ve adhered to.
Not to divert the topic, but wasn’t Elena’s brother portrayed WAY differently in her USFIV prologue or epilogue? Or am I mistaking him for someone else?
Edit: OK, another thing. Juni wasn’t in ASF, right? She was with Cammy ever since she woke up at the hospital when Cammy brought her a cat and all? The only doll that was playable in Alpha that appeared in ASF was Juli, correct?
Yes to all of that about Juni and Juli.
Elena’s mother is fucking gorgeous.
I wonder if most of S2 story mode will just be returning all the Doll home.
No, Bison is not Ingrid. Your ideas for Bison would turn him INTO Ingrid.