I always found them to be extremely awkward to do.
The only one I really liked was Abel’s, because his follow up moves didn’t require additional fireball commands for each move. You just did the one fireball motion, then the follow up moves required a simple punch or kick button to keep it going.
If Necro was a song
I would say the same thing when the first time I was using Feilong in his debut.
And it fell awkward too with Ryu’s Tatsu in SFEX the only thing I liked with it is because of the Super Cancels.
Having realized that a opera career just won’t do it as easily in this day and age, Necro decides to go for a more… contemporary approach drawing from his experiences suffering being labelled as a “freak”.
I’ve edited my post to add the model for the portrait that announces victory in the background, who actually was none other than Akira Nishitani.
Out of curiosity, I browsed the movelists of the new characters in both English and Japanese, and noticed a few discrepancies. They’re mostly minor, like Poison’s Whiplash being スラッシュウィップ Slash Whip in the original Japanese, and don’t really change anything; but there’s one case that changes the meaning of the move. Lucia’s Weapon Fury was actually ウェポンフリー Weapon(s) Free. “Fury” would’ve been フューリー fyūrii, not フリー furii.
Your/jap version (W. Free) make waaay more sense
VT just show her doing limited use of tonfa, only 2 hits in the middle of a normal hand-to-hand combo
A) Weapon Fury - make think at a barrage of many wild attacks
B) Weapon Free - make think she as a cop indentify the opponent as a serious treat (he beated her up, filling her VT bar) wich justify to elevate the level of engage to “weapon free” one
B feel much closer to what we seen in the trailer
Exactly. Lucia is a responsible cop, not a reckless one. “Weapons Free” sounds about right.
My only issue with Lucia is that we already have the responsible cop with a blue-ish color palette, and her name is Chun-Li.
Couldn’t we have gotten Belger in a 21st MODOK style contraption instead?
We already had the body replacement for Bison Ed and we got Falke so… obviously Lucia will play differently enough to justify her inclusion… I hope.
“Weapons free” is generally a term used to denote that you’re cleared to open fire on a target though.
You wouldn’t usually go “weapons free” for a stick.
Makes me wonder if she didn’t maybe have a gun earlier in development until someone at Capcom of America told them we have kinda a problem with cops shooting people at the moment.
Oh thank God we didn’t…
A boy can dream can’t he…
Mech Suit Belger…
Mech Wheelchair really, but I’ll take whatever. Belger needs to come back.
Even more than naturally responsible i like the idea she HAVE to stick to a protocol
I think it’s on purpose they showed us two former chaotic forces of justice (Cody and Lucia) straight brawling in the streets no fucks given when it comes to methods…
…to “order and law protectors” (as Mayor and more conventional cop), roles they find not so easy to adapt to, with many new rules and responsibilities to follow
Even if the Mayor is still allowed to cut peoples face with a knife lol 
We also already have other two main-blue blondlighteyes girls in Falke and Kolin
And Lucia is the fucking 4th blondlighteyes militar-vibe girl when we could have got much more unique designs (Rose, Elena etc)
My issue is not much about Lucia sucking as character itself (well, design wise standard is’nt that great either) but being a super poor choice considering current SFV female cast, and how her design overlap with already existing characters
If REALLY she was needed i will prefer they have chosen to keep her undercover/urban clothes detective look (wich will have removed redundant militar vibe) with a redesign starting from her FF3 look
wich will have had brown as very important main clothes color and will have been unique to her… Could help have killed some blue parts too, like the bra
Also they could have sticked to the original brown eyes, making her more different next to cammyfalkekolin
Last but not last i’m not sold on how much fucking fire she generate now, make her seem heavy ki based or worse an elemental fighter… she feel like a VT Ken with tits now lol
FF3 Lucia had 1 (one) move generating little fire
That’s It, this was all her fire
For the rest her attacks were normal kicks with movement trail of same azure of her shoes
Exagerating with fire is what make her CA looking even more similar to Ken’s
In her defense She got that super in original FF3 (much before Ken), but used to have fire only on last kick
Tbh
Cody VS —
Zeku VS Abigail (Guy def Abi in the past)
Lucia VS Poison (female vs feMale)
Make me think is possible we will see a thir male Mad Gear/Metro City boss vibe baddy, superior to Abi/Poison and destined as Cody’s opponent
Either a new char OR we already have him
Your objection is right, and this use of “weapons free” didn’t sound entirely correct to me either. I searched for the phrase in Japanese and BINGO, the definition of the term according to Japanese weblio is
One of the basic rules of engagement in military or judicial police, meaning “use of personal equipment against threats or targets permitted according to the officer’s own judgment”.
It’s not restricted to firearms… At least in Japan.
Then there’s the fact that SF world is not strictly OUR world, anyway…
Essentially Lucia give you a pass to resist till her VT bar is full, then it’s tonfa time
Wish stayed W. Free also in western version
