I usually 50% agree and 50% call bullshit on this guy, but on Kage he’s mostly right… well, if you’re calling kage crap is hard to have me disagree lol
But i disagree on critic the headband as “scarf” being a bad thing to specifically criticize on (of all crap kage is composed lol), actually it was probably the BEST detail Kage got
He searched a parallel inside the cast (why?) to “justify” it, but the detail link (as most of SF designs) outside… in this case he did’nt even had to watch that far… just in Akuma’s stage
A stripe cloth on the neck area is part of the imagery
Also it got a nice symbolic meaning, as if Ken’s “seal” on Ryu got lose and fallen down from the head… like to represent SnH broke free from it, it offer an “unchained” image
Another hint of the importance of traditional statues on kage’s design is watching his Battle Alt
Also Kage animations nice support that link, even on little details
Where he should have attacked is that kage is nothing more than evil ryu served with a different sauce, so a boring design by default lol
They got the chance to make something actually original, interessing and worth the slot when they considered design it as a demonic ghost/shadow (kage=shadow)
and they should have gone from there… keeping maaaaaybe an “evil Ryu” alt as DLC shit, but not standard look
He missed to point at that, actually even gone saying essentially that “previous” evil ryu were better (as if Kage should have been an eviryu in his opinion too), wich is exactly the path that was wrong to begin with lol
If done honest the change of name should have gone with an actual absolute deviation from what evil ryu was to create a brand new SnH character and remove the cheap clone taste from the mouth
Will also have helped show his spiritual level existence (he/it links with opponents spirit and “fight” them inside theyr mind/soul) wich current design failed to, even in a fans place like this thread a % of people think kage is made of flesh and can walk to Walmart to buy some doritos
But they got to feed the crap-eating evil ryu fanbase that wanted see the character in no matter what, so we got the amazing kage
PS: i liked the suggestion (and in this thread many of us called it many times) of have it as Ryu’s VT. it will have solved all that crap.
But tbh i will have liked it as “special” VT3, as i like faaar more current VT1 and VT2 Ryu over any evilryu shit.
Only alt solution i will have liked will have been if they somehow merged VT1-VT2 abilities in same VT (to left the other to evilryu), but i guess that will have been broken… awesome but broken LOL