That trailer is the awesomeness, and perfectly timed too for us lol
Props to Nintendo to wait us to discuss SNK stuff to buy Terry
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I love the way Nintendo cuts trailers. The amateur graphics artist and video editor in me weeps happily. It was just a truly FUN trailer that nicely celebrates the classics of SNK. It didn’t lazily say that Terry’s from KoF, they acknowledged his origins in Fatal Fury. Much respect!
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I think there stands the problem Capcom have with both Akuma and Bison, they love-hug them so hard that they don’t realize they’re damaging them
In Akuma’s case it also bother me a bit because them keep sucking akuma’s japanese banana ruin a basic SF/Ryu principle: world being big big place, you can travel for decades and still find stronger people
Akuma obsession is just that japanese pride done wrong (pretty much grappler baki disease)
Ryu as protagonist (more spiritual than actual story-arc Hero) is perfect japanese pride done right
Wish Akuma was never invented and we just got Ryu travelling world SF after SF finding each time new, never seen challenges with legit claim of being more or at least just-as (but preferably more) dangerous of previous Big Boss Bad guys
Instead we’re locked in this anime star wars son-dad decades long, multiple games thing forever
Capcom “ohh but but, we promise it’s worth the wait, a surprise nobody will see coming, some plot twist that will power-up the meaning of saying plot twist”
Everybody “Akuma is Ryu’s dad”
Capcom “HOW DO YO… i mean, no”
The fun thing i’m not even against the son-dad story, it is actually coherent with everything we know… is just not worth capcom locking the “most dangerous fucker” slot for years and years and with it locking Ryu too in same cycle
Rugal walked in on Heidern’s ceremony and slaughtered all 50 of his men because he felt like it.
Rugal is a superstar.
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Rugal dresses well. Instsntly top tier.
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The Rugal love in here warms my heart
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Personality wise, Rugal is lot of what Bison should have been
But not just Bison, SF villains on general should do a 6 months stage in some SNK academy to learn some darkness lol
Just ignore Iori
Ono era SF in particular made difficult get true villains vibe
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When it comes to Akuma’s impact on SF, that’s one of my biggest frustrations. He’s forever locked in the stagnating category of “He’s the most dangerous badass and foil to Ryu” but he’s always just waiting. I wonder how different things would be if he was there for a couple games or arcs and then had Ryu move on to something different. I want SF to have a wide open world. As you said, have Ryu travel the world and interact with different people and fighting styles. If SF6-7 resolves the Illuminati arc, I want SF to go back to having different antagonist styles and stories. We’ve had sci-fi dictators, I’d like to see something more martial arts like and then something different after that. We can have different stories, but not everything needs to be end of the world threats. Some things can certainly be a big deal, but we don’t want to get stuck in a cycle where every game has to have the biggest event.
I wouldn’t mind if the first post Illuminati game is a smaller story dealing with something you’d find in a kung fu movie. Tournament offering tons of money, but there’s Triad involvement, then have side stories for different characters. Chun is taking part to fight, but Guile runs into her and says that there’s been some political kidnappings and they’re tied to the hosts, have the Triad have a Pharmaceutical company under its thumb that’s promising some wonder meds, but it’s involved in destroying the Amazon so that pisses off Blanka, have a legendary martial artist (Like Gen, no supernatural stuff) host or compete and bring in Ryu’s attention, etc.
It’s like how Avengers didn’t immediately fight Thanos after the 1st movie, they went with a big threat, but it was isolated to other countries and then in Winter Soldier it was a manhunt. We can do that with SF once we finally pass the SF3 hurdle. After that we have a ton of storyline freedom since Capcom will feel comfortable to do things without fearing how to stall on dealing with 3.
A female Street Fighter boss is something we need.
Necalli could have been a girl, by the way.
But, well, Necalli was a mistake.
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I’m seriously fascinated with the guy because he’s not like your typical villain.
Dude is classy as fuck. He walks around with a pet panther (was ready to bite the shit outta Bison in their opening too), loves to sip on a glass of wine, and dips your ass into a liquid bath if he feels like you’re worthy enough. But on top of all of that, he’s a master combatant that can learn abilities by watching them.
He also displayed the greatest power ever: blowing up the Blacknoah and somehow keeping Saisyu in one piece.
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Rugal succeeds as a total magnificent bastard combined with the Palpatine-archetype that Bison goes for (and does well)
Rugal is just pure evil but he has no higher calling or purpose. He’s not some big schemer. Why is he running guns and weapons? Because it creates misery and conflict…which he thinks is awesome. Why does he butcher people with his hands? Because he’s the baddest man on the planet and he likes proving his superiority.
Rugal is like this bizarre alpha that just wants to make the world a warzone that he can rise to the top in to really get a challenge. Dude would be right at home in post apocalyptic Hokuto No Ken world
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I always said I wanted a story centered around Bison.
But if I could get a novel, Manga, or anything centered around Rugal, I’d cry tears of happiness. Between the feud with his brother, his adventures on the Blacknoah, his many dealings in the black market, his children, the many battles, and just his mindset, it would be a great read.
“I’m more than a god! I’m a superstar! Hah, hah!”
“Repeat this after me: I’ll never take on a god again.”
Those quotes alone embody everything I love about the guy.
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Wtf is a Blacknoah?
Also the fact that they let Rugal punk the fuck out of Akuma in CvS2 says a lot about how Capcom feels about Akuma.
Gotta cosign a lot the stuff already said. Akuma as a villain is kinda wack. Bison is boring, Necalli had a lot going for him before he was turned into a jobber. Seth had a stupid belly button.
KoF is sort of able to make due by the fact that they’ll dedicate at least 2 games to any one story. Makes it easier for them to do all the cheesy story telling stuff.
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Yeah, I always loved that Rugal is just having a good time. He’s not mustache twirling, speechifying evil, he’s a chuckling aberration who’s just having a fun time. It’s quite a different and fun take.
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The Blacknoah is Rugal’s aircraft.
Also, to be fair, Akuma does take Rugal out with demon if he’s the boss.
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Just imagine what training with Oro was like!
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I disagree, still i will not be surprised at all if next will be
Hopefully if they do it, they will make it at least an actual female character, and not a male character that look like a woman (i’m speaking conceptually, nothing to do with Poison LOL)
He was’nt
He was a good idea executed badly, half due naiveness half on purpose
Will have been cool af if as intro the panther tried to attack Bison getting psycho bitchslapped 
Yeah Rugal is all about freedom, in the sense he feel free to do the fuck he want because nobody have the power to stop him from doing it lol
Tbh on the contrary i was more surprised by them using Akuma as capcom’s Boss, when Bison was usually associated with it and made better symmetry with Rugal
This
Iirc i read somebody explaining It as
Rugal>Akuma= Rugal essentially “copy” the ability of go into SnH (and SGS), becoming God Rugal
Akuma>Rugal= Akuma get considered worthy of receive some Orochi Power, become Shin Gouki
No idea how “official”(in a game not canon anyway) Is this, but sound coherent with what we know of characters… Gouki would probably be pissed/reject external help though
For the Capcom side, the tournament victory is interrupted by a huge explosion that came from the battle between Rugal and Akuma. Rugal talks about the awesomeness of the Satsui no Hado and how he wants the power. The two clash again and then Rugal is shown holding the defeated Akuma in the air. He impaled him, absorbed the Satsui no Hado, and transformed into God Rugal.
For the SNK side, Akuma tells Rugal that he’ll “remember his name” and then unleashes the Raging Demon. Rugal compliments him and gives him the Orochi Power before he dies.
Overall, I liked how the story was handled. In CVS1, it was just Geese and Bison holding their own tournament.
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You just remember me the GRugal intro throwing Akuma away LOL, that was good
SGouki path
Back then (cvs1 in this case iirc) they was also still of the idea Akuma killing Bison was good, Bison death animation feels out of Metal Slug lol
ps: watching cvs videos make me think SFV took stages inpirations also from there
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