I ask again: Does this training guide exist in Japanese? Otherwise, it wasn’t made by the people who are in charge of the storyline and therefore doesn’t have authority.
The aftermath trailer contradicts the training guide. So, the canon status of Akuma killing Bison was “stated otherwise”. Therefore, you need to prove that the training guide has a higher priority by demonstrating that it was actually written by the story guys from Capcom of Japan and not by some American employee who just collected what he remembered from the games.
Darth you are right about Karin. You are wrong about Strider. Strider is co-owned by Moto Kikaku. If you look at any game Strider is in. There is separate license shown for the character. There is no such designation for Karin though.
Magegg is wrong on that front. Two Slam Master characters are mentioned as Hugo opponents in his 2nd Impact ending. Biff and Flapjack appear in the background with other Capcom cameos in Ken’s Alpha 2 stage. Even this game references Slam Masters. The wrestling federation that Mika and Gief wrestle at in the cinematic story mode is CWA.
For a game like SF4, a manual, at least for story purposes, is pretty much obsolete. In the old games, the manual was basically the only thing that told you who these fighters are. But now that we have full anime intro scenes, I doubt that a few lines of text in the manual tell us anything that we don’t know already. Personally, I’m much more curious about the translations from the old books, when the in-game story was pretty sparse.
The closest thing I could find to a “manual” is the arcade flyer for the eight returning world warriors which has a small synopsis of the story in the front. Nothing detailed, and most of what I posted previously is covered in this.
Like you said it’s something we already know (end of SF2 tournament, missing fighters afterwards, mysterious organization).
I too am personally enjoying these translations from the SF2 CF. Just going over Bison, Ryu and Ken’s entry again I enjoy that they cover descriptions of how each attack is performed by the user. They mention things about how a Hadoken draws ki directly from the tanden by cupping the hands over it, or how both Hadoken and Shoryuken use the torsion (or twist) of the body to properly perform the move, or how Bison’s Knee Press might be based in Muay Thai. These are thing’s I’ve always speculated about, and it just goes to show a Hadoken is not just cupping your hand together and thrusting them forward, there’s a proper form and etiquette. I’m excited to see how the other moves are described as well (like Blanka’s electricity or Sim’s fire).
Bison’s exact words: “She’s going to die… But perhaps some kind of bargain could be made…” I don’t think they would leave it up in the air what that bargain is. And that bargain is what happens at the end ie Cammy goes with Bison and Decapre to be further experimented on. I don’t think they would just put in the ending what they already showed us in the prologue. That would be such an anti-climactic ending.
Uh, I think the Bargain Bison spoke of is Cammy giving Decapre to Bison, because she apparently wasn’t as perfect of a clone Cammy is and thus she was dying because the experimentation on her wasn’t finished by the time Shadaloo releases her in the Prologue when she screams KILL KILL KILL
Sometimes I wonder how Gen would compare to the most powerful fighters in the series if he wasn’t being held-back by an illness. We know he’s at least comparable to Akuma in Alpha 2.
Just imagine if Ingrid (Yeah, I know) decided to be nice one day and eliminate Gen’s illness altogether. Pressure points for dayz!!! But on the real, I see so much potential in Gen, but it sucks that his stupid illness has to stop him from being able to use all of his power.
Healthy Gen is easily an A Tier fighter, so he’s on the top among the likes of Akuma, Bison, and Ryu
Actually I wonder what everybody thinks of the characters tier-wise
How about we all come up with a tier list of our own? Not in terms of gameplay but purely lore-based?
I think we can go from S Tier (Ingrid, Oni, Final Bison) all the way down to F Tier (Dan, Shadaloo soldiers)
7 Tiers should be enough to cover the entire SF universe
