Oh yeah, another big game character annoyance for me: Xbox Ryu Hayabusa.
Who the hell thought this was a good idea? You know it’s already a bad idea when your “reboot” of a character is overshadowed by a version that was made in the 1980s. They basically took some generic ninja dude and called him Ryu. He used to have things like a personality, then Xbox NG came along and he was suddenly “generic badass #83”. :wtf:
First off, Hayabusa is not a effing honorific or clan. It’s Ryu’s surname as in, ONLY Ryu and his family…oh wait they retconned his family except for his dad who’s name they also changed. Before it made sense that he looks white because well, he was in part. Now it’s just the anime cliche that all Japanese guys look white, I never got this change.
Second, why in the hell would a guy with a sword that can cut holes in time/space and ressurrect the dead need another weapon? Oh wait, they retconned that too, now “Ryuken” is just some wack bootleg Force Edge. So I guess he needs other weapons.
Third, his outfit. I don’t care how buff or manly the guy is, nobody here needs to be talking about some cat walking around in black skintight leather like he “looks like a warrior” and then trash talk the more Japanese (read: Square) hero designs. However “girly” or teenaged they look, at least those dudes don’t look like they’re wearing a damn gimp suit. It would be one thing if this version of him had the DOA outfit which was good, but no, instead we get this.
Finally, no Irene (or Aileen in Japan, as I recall). Fuck off with Ayane (all DOA girls really), and Rachel, and Sonia and all these other nobody characters. She was way more interesting than the lot of them.
Yeah, this version of Ryu is bad. Give me the NES one, 20 years old and still better conceived.