I’m not bothered by her, but I think there’s some potential there that’s being held back. I feel like there’s more for her, Ed and all of Neo- Shadaloo, but it’s waiting in the wings for some reason (be it for S4 or content planned but not able to be delivered for some reason). I really would have loved to see a bit of her in another storymode, I feel there’s where she can shine with Ed.
I’m a bit biased cause she’s voiced by a friend, but her slowly picking up on what it is to live a real, Shadaloo-free life, the protective sibling angle and untapped potential makes me want to see more of her. Playable or not. I just don’t want Capcom to make all these potential character arcs and not deliver. I really want to see what Neo Shadaloo can bring to the table, because if done right, it can be a different, interesting parallel to Cammy and her sisters + Delta Red. Family vs family. The concept art makes me want to see more of the Neo-Shadaloo family and learn their story.
If she does come back, I’d like to see some tweaks to a few animations. Some people here and out there have ideas for how minorly her CA could be tweaked and have it be cool. I do like her design and weapon infusing techniques. I feel they could take that somewhere in the future.
My fav one was one that has never been used again after FF days
Classic FF brown hair Cody with blue stripes on both hands and right elbow (as in FF ingame big portrait)
Some dude did it a good fanart back to SF4 and that’s it lol
Personally i will like to them to stick with Kinu/SF3 Tom and “Leon the Professional” imagery,
instead some things i seen after done by udon
Maybe make him just a bit smaller, there is almost big as Alex
Slighty bigger than SFV Cody could work imho
Fight style wise i think he can reflect 3 parts of his concept
“Leon” and ex-soldier thing
To reflect that i will like lot of Krav Maga kind of vibe, think elbows, knees, palm strikes, face grabbing and shit like that.
Think Solid Snake CQC stuff
Him having a counter could really fit that vibe
MMA istructor
Him having an actual MMA gym with a selection of specific arts istructors (CFN profiles) was a great development, they should keep it.
Will like to see great emphasis on him having what as today shaped up to be a kinda universal “MMA style”
So essentially a kickboxer with relatively wide “heavy” stance, elbows and knees on clinch, wrestling takedowns, ground and pound and jujitsu subs
The key here should be show him able to transition from striking to grappling (or vice versa)
I will represent tis with multi-path rekkas including throw option, kinda like Abel used to do in SF4
Alex Master
Wrestling should be his fav specific art, but unlike Alex/Gief his should be a very technique and brain approach to it.
So perfect executed takedowns and submission locks on neck or limbs.
The kind of experienced wrestler that can outplay easily a bigger/stronger/heavier but less skilled wrestler
I will like also him to use a more refined (and less “pro wrestling”) version of some Alex specials
Example will not like him to use pure brute strenght stuff as Alex’s headbutts or powerbomb slams, but i can see him having a more technical version of stuff like this to show theyr connection
I know it seems random but I’d like it if Tom+Patricia were Irish-American. Don’t know why but I always got that vibe from them. Helps to slightly balance the Japan-America oversaturation of the SF cast.
Probably they won’t do it like the Jean Reno thing again but they can still keep the Nose, hair and facial fair just to keep the resemblance than the CFN art.
The idea here on technical level will be the similar, except Alex compensate with size, brute strenght and youth (so strenght wise he can do things Tom can’t)
Alex being a “muscle version” of Tom’s teachings
So having theyr styles very different, but still possible see how from Tom’s art could have born Alex’s one
Essentially Tom is the guy that flip you with perfect timing, leverage, angle, placement etc.
When all is spot-on, you still use strenght but you can really trip people with relatively low effort*
Alex on other hand being not as perfect but back it up with great explosivity and strenght… so you will still be thrown lol, but due a different mix
*to use an anime example just came to my mind Griffith fucking up Guts shoulder in theyr first scrap (time stamped)
I’m obviously biased LOL, but will like Tom to be italian-american, after all the main inspiration is Leon and he was an italian-american living in NY’s Little Italy
Considering she’s a ginger, will welcome Patricia being mixed with the mom being irish-american though
Will actually be cool, as italians and Irish had loooong historical connection in america
The realist in me believes this is because they won’t show anything, which absolutely kills me inside, but my optimistic self likes to think they are just phasing Ono out of the picture.
Especially after seeing the Mortal Kombat reveals, the fact that in the past two months all we’ve got was ‘DID YA LAIKE KAGAYEH?!? YOUA CAEN PLAY HAIM NAOOOW!!!’ still sours me.
I don’t hate Ono, I really don’t, but if your marketing team is shit, at least have someone who can really hype things up. His shtick got super old a while ago and I’d much rather have excitement in my announcements, not goofiness.
Don’t really wanna speculate, but the best outcome I can see from this is related to the arcade release: Characters, either one at a time or all at once, will be playable first at the arcade. It’d give a boost to the arcade machine and generate some hype (money) for it, in Japan at least.
I don’t think this is a likely outcome, but it’s the most positive realistic one I can imagine atm
I can deal with some goofiness like with the G and Cody reveal where they had Kenny Omega dress up and act like Cody and Christopher Corey Smith dress up and act as G, sure it was cheesy but it got me interested in the characters. Listening to Ono’s broken Engrish while wearing glowing cat ears horns was kind of cringey.
