The new fighting game character news just keeps rolling in today! Courtesy of the latest issue of Famitsu, we get out first look at the newest addition to the Street Fighter world.
I continue to approach all Street Fighter IV news with cautious optimism. The game is being produced by a man who worked heavily on the god awful Capcom Fighting Evolution, and visually there are many niggling complaints to be made about the game thus far, but at least it's a new Street Fighter game. That's something I wasn't sure I'd ever see. Now Street Fighter IV officially has given us something we never had in the Street Fighter world before -- a red haired, brown-skinned woman with a flair for half-opened, button-up shirts and hair styles popular with Japanese biker gangs in the 1950s.
My feelings on this are understandably mixed. I'm just hoping that unlike Poison for Final Fight, Crimson Viper will never give me cause to think "WHY PENIS WHY?"
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10:50 AM on 01.09.2008
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Yes, I recycled my own joke. That's still more bearable than Ryu's bulge.
This character design, it's not awful it's just... meh.
I wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating cookies.
Not impressed.
Or her:
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Her:
We'll see, man. We'll see. ;-)
She just doesn't seem very Street Fighter at all.
Even the name...Crimson Viper?! Meh.
And Kelis^ is fit. Good job Guitar Atomik.
Also, I would fear to face that woman in combat, armed as she surely is with righteous (lesbian) feminism
also, yea i immediately thought she looked like poison
STREET FIGHTER IV: BIG FUCKING THIGHS EDITION
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Five, four, three, two, ONE!
@ Snaileb; err, no she doesn't.
She looks okay. I'd only mind if she was a cheap fighter or a rubbish-to-use one.
The direct phonetic translation of the Katakana to her right is "Ku-Ri-Mu-Zo-N Vu-Ai-Pa".
So don't have me fired if it turns out that her name is actually "Cream son, wipe her".
The rest, we'll have to see.
You know the one I mean.
@Johnathon: Design-wise, she reminds me of the Street Fighter EX characters mixed with KOF. I'm simply not sure how successful that will be for Capcom considering how poorly the EX games did. Also, I salute your banner as you did mine; it's fucking tight.
But I am ready to be proven wrong.