I’m fairly new to fighting games, but I fell in love with street fighter instantly. especially with Sakura, my favorite character in the whole damn game (with the only ones coming close being Juri, Ibuki, and Dudley). I found street fighter with sf4, so I went back and bought the alpha anthology, and the found sf3 through one way or another… Anyway, I was wondering why Sakura wasn’t in sf3? I mean, she seemed like she was just starting out on her martial arts journey. she was starting to learn how to use her moves, she was learning a bit about that satsui no hado stuff, and she kept getting stronger and whatnot, so why wasn’t she there a few years later for the next tournament? I would have thought that unless she died, had seriously sick family, was seriously sick herself, got bored with martial arts, or stopped caring about Ryu she would have went to the next one without a second thought.
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think about what?
lol good question, we need an answer
she’s in it, but only in 3rd strike. she’s known as SaQra, or simply, Q.
ah. well, i’ll take my question there, then.
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After beating Apocalypse, there was nothing the fighting world had to offer her.
Gee no problem boss let me call Capcom and ask them what the hell they were thinking leaving out such an “iconic” character
I’ll answer this total nerdlinger question with a total nerdlinger answer.
Capcom originally wanted to add a totally new cast of characters into SF3. Ryu and Ken weren’t even supposed to be in the game, but fans hated that and so they put them in too.
Any other old character that gets put into the game is strictly that little bit of fanservice that seemed mandatory(Akuma and Chun…possibly Hugo).
That’s why Sakura(or any of the other SF2/Alpha characters) isn’t in the game. The Alpha series still left a lot of storylines unresolved, but nobody really cared that much about the story so whatever.
You left out the part where Ibuki curb stomps her
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She got pregnant and quitted.
She is.
Ryu/Ken/Akuma/Sean/Necro/Oro/Gill/Urien/Necro/12/Yun/Dudley/Yang/Iceman/Bees/Tom Cruise/Gill/Pyrolee
All of them are in the game and all of them are secretly sakura.
She and Karin married each other.
actually SF3 takes place before sakura takes an apprenticeship under ryu
i heard she aborted the baby though