Don't know who's the biggest jobber: Loyal Khan or Necalli.... I guess Necalli since Total at least has some canon wins but Necalli just jobbed left and right
The problem with Necalli is he seeks to KILL and CONSUME his opponents, and unlike MK, SF characters aren't dying left and right. There's no one he would be allowed to actually consume, not even Dan, so he has no choice but to job constantly.
I dunno, they had plenty of jobbers from SF1 to off, and it's not like Charlie Nash had a happy ending in each Alpha game. Of course they didn't need to go full gore and violence, but they could at least imply what happened just to put Necalli over as a threat.
Meanwhile; Kazuya Mishima - a character who isn't even part of the 'Street Fighter' franchise - killed Dan prior to the events of 'Street Fighter X Tekken' (an act that's only undone (thanks to Pandora's Box) in Sakura and Blanka's Arcade ending).
I love how Necalli is so mysterious and menacing, looking all edgy and shit just to get his ass kicked badly every single time he appears and melt away like a T-1000
In a weird twist of fate, Bison finds himself running for election to be supreme leader. "Some people say using 6 moons to destroy the world is too many...I say its not enough!"
19:50 this is my favorite moment of the entire story mode because no matter who is playing it or which version Ibuki's purse is flying around with reckless abandon and it's never been fixed
@@Haka-f3k-u oh, don't get me wrong, I don't like FANG either. In fact, designing him as this goofy character with weird mannerisms and making him the mosy competent villain is some backwards logic IMO. I judt didn't really agree with the simile made.
The weirdest thing about Rashid is that his dialogue all feels like it was written in English, run through a translator to maybe Japanese or something, and then run back through to English. It all feels weirdly stilted and inauthentic.
Most of the dialogue feels that way, but his is probably the most obvious. The localization team either didn't care, didn't have time, or (most likely) were told by the suits to shut up and do their jobs as told.
Remember story mode writers: Any time there is a simple misunderstanding between characters that can be solved with a few words, you have to have the characters fight. People love it.
@@WeeWeeJumbo I don’t think it’s bad to try and be a bit serious with it’s story, the big problem here is how obviously thrown together and half assed this story is. Nothing makes sense, everything happens just for the sake of there being a thing, with no thought put into why or how
MK9 has one of my favorite versions: Johnny Cage is being a creepy perv about Sonja Blade in front of Jax, so Jax gets annoyed and beats him silly. There's no misunderstanding, but they are both heroes fighting.
The only two things I like about this story mode is Urien showing up out of nowhere, and the punch in the gut when it shows that Nash’s final sacrifice attack did fucking nothing.
One of the big draws to fighting games for me as a casual kid was unlocking cool cutscenes for each character when I beat the game with them. Getting just a bunch of still pictures and maybe some in-game animation never cut it for me.
@@NickMK Technically, you unlock the ability to buy the costumes and colors with the limited money you get that could be used to purchase characters. Or you just get them all when you buy the upgrade pack to get the other 60% of the game.
I find it kind of hilarious how little they gave Alex any significance here. He’s just there practically as a cameo. Given that he was originally supposed to be the *star* of Street Fighter 3. The storyline to follow. Then again, unlike King Of Fighters, Capcom did have a hard time truly transitioning lead characters for Street Fighter.
Weirdly enough I’m kinda ok with that? This is set before III, it’d be weird if he had a major role in this games story. I think that scene he has with Dhalsim does a good job at setting up the greater destiny that awaits him in III
@@alter9933 I say that as if Ash Crimson DID exist. I was implying that KOF was good at getting people to accept new leads. King of Fighters could change lead characters well. Whenever people say KOF 94-98 I think Kyo Kusanagi, including the dream match games. When people say KOF 99 -2022, I immediately think the Nest Saga starring K'. When people say KOF 23, XI, XIII, I think Ash Crimson.
I'm still mad they didn't use the original model for Alex that was planned here. He's younger, so he was going to be a lot less bulky and muscular. But I guess twink Alex will never come to pass.
As one of a dozen F.A.N.G apologists out there, your feelings on him are completely valid. It definitely seems like A.K.I in SF6 is being set up to redeem his concept at least! I wonder if she's going to flap her arms like a bird and shit out poison for her Level 2... More seriously, A Shadow Falls really fascinates me because as you noted, they really did try. It is neat on some level to see Street Fighter characters exploring locations and interacting in real time, but... the writing, and specifically the reduction of almost every single character in the cast to a single dimension makes it such a hot mess. I'm... glad that we got it, but I'll never accuse it of being good.
I have a few fixes that would make this a lot better. 1) Give it a three-act structure with the first all the setup and terms. 2) Have the first act be a tournament. It's weird SFV doesn't have one. 3) Have Necalli kill Bison at the beginning. This makes him a real threat for Ryu to beat. 4) Only attack the Shadaloo base once at the finale. It is bizarre they go there three times.
@@some_guy117 I know you're being funny but that would actually be a good idea. Act 2 everyone scatters to find the marope but they're worried they're next on Necalli's list. It's a good way to build tension.
You built a better lore than the capcom writers at the time, let’s hope they bring Necalli back in a dlc a maybe a story dlc mode as the main antagonist
@@some_guy117 There is a good story here but it's got bad focus and feels disjointed, nothing flows together. This really feels like Capcom just went with the first draft.
I love how R. Mika wears her more conservative outfit (relatively speaking for pro-wrestling) at the beginning of the story, but when she joins up with the gang to save the world she decided that she needed both ass cheeks out. It just adds to the unintentional hilarity of the story mode.
Her and Cammy's outfits are just way too much here. It took 6 entries before CAPCOM finally gave Cammy pants. Though honestly, they could make the leotard work if it actually covered her so she didn't leave an ass print every time she sat on a chair.
@@Nocturne22 I didn't mind their outfits too much, but they definitely detracted from whatever they were trying to do with the SFV story mode. However, it's funny that Capcom still got everybody thirsting for Cammy more with her default SFVI outfit than they ever did with her leotard. Her and the rest of the SFVI female roster (I say it's the subtle jiggle physics on the musculature).
Capcom really tried on this but as with everything with SF5 (up until recently) it was a very misguided attempt. ono should've realized that with their budget it was going to be impossible to deliver a story mode that would look good to audiences at the time, MK set the bar to "your story mode should be a full blown hollywood movie". This is why would tour is such a stroke of genius for them. They still can't compete when it comes to presentation and budget but now they can instead deliver lore and single player content through RPG gameplay instead of a directed beat-to-beat linear story with high production values The future looks exciting for this franchise with the people currently at the helm.
Matt talking about wanting a new Saturday Night Slam Masters made me think that since Haggar isn't mayor of Metro City anymore having him become the new head of the CWA would be a great way to continue his character.
Necalli is such an absolute waste of a character despite all the hype teasers arround him. The arcade hints being this prophetic beast consuming strong warriors to then the story is just a filler villain getting punched everywhere he goes.
@@Flood520 Which had a worse story mode? This or Tekken 7 where the only noteworthy fight was Kazuya and Heihachi's final battle, had a narrator supposedly pissed at Jin for killing his family but the voice actor's performance was emotionless, it tried to make Heihachi Mishima of all characters sympathetic and Akuma was there for some reason.
Why is Karin portrayed as the leader? She is supposed to be a prodigy in martial arts and well, everything. In earlier games she was portrayed as being full of herself but still a prodigy, in 5 she is shown to be more mature but still very cocky and equally capable. Her rivarly with sakura stems from those qualities because sakura is also naturally gifted.
I completely forgot how awful Kolin’s face looked in the story mode. I’m so glad she got a new model when she became playable, she looks soooo much better.
The fact that everyone's hands are all super blurry looking, and yet the camera zooms in and lingers on them CONSTANTLY (both in this mess and in character win screens) is an.. interesting choice.
The best way to describe Necalli is to compare him to the Ultimate Warrior. Our expectation is that he would be like the Warrior from WWF Golden Era where he is this unstoppable madman who kicks ass and goes over ALL the big name stars to show how badass he is. But instead its WCW Warrior who is just all hype and just fizzled out when the big match we all wanted to see him in doesn’t live up to the expectation.
Even Kotal Khan has more canon wins than Necalli, and he ended up on a freaking wheelchair and still was better than Necalli, that's how much of a jobber he was... maybe, and maybe later down the line they can give it a second shot and made him actually a threatening presence
Eh, maybe. The story over there had potential and some fun moments but was a bigger disappointment given the premise and had some just as cringy moments as A Shadow Falls
It was more cohesive, that's for sure. I feel like SFV's story mode was either poorly translated or poorly written - Rashid's "friend" (a lover? Who fucking knows) never being named despite being one of, if not the most plot-important character is baffling. She doesn't even appear!
I am genuinely blown away at how terrible this is. It's almost impressive how structureless and limp everything feels. Why is there no music? Why are any of these characters at any of the places they randomly appear? Why are so many of the fights completely pointless? Why does no one talk like anything even remotely resembling a human being? Seriously, the whole thing feels like somebody wrote an outline intending to flesh it out later, but then a deadline happened and they had to hand it in as is, and whoever was in charge was just like "eh, whatever, this is good enough."
First off, lack of music was on Matt's end since there is music in the game (heck, there's epic battle music between Rashid and F.A.N.G. not present in this video). Second, Street Fighter always did this sort of thing with fighters appearing everyone in such a short amount of time but this is randomness in a cinematic level which doesn't work well here. Third, they tried to be all Netherrealm but didn't get what made their stories work despite issues and it just ends up being like the cartoon but not as fun or silly. Yeah, A Shadow Falls isn't very good but to be fair, it did the job at a time where SF5 needed content and it does have its moments and fans for its first attempt at a cinematic story mode.
the fact that there's a world threatening event happening and it's up to a group of stupid martial artists to save everyone is bonkers. also how did we go from hosting a fighting tournament for a story to whatever this is? a group of professional writers made this. incredible.
Professional writers? It's more like Capcom told everyone who worked on SF V to dump their favorite overused anime tropes into a blender, and this is the result.
I had this on in the background only half paying attention, but Chun-Li talking about how the moon was going to explode definitely caught my attention and cemented to me that this game is bananas.
F.A.N.G should briefly show back up in a Street Fighter game only for Dan to Raging Demon him (in his own goofy way) then perform the legendary taunt in celebration.
Just gonna say it, this movie felt like Capcom trying to tell a story on par with Street Fighter the Animated Series but with their established universe.
Not really, Ono admitted they wanted it to be like MK. It does remind me a lot of the MK9 in the way it is structured, showing the perspective of the bad guys and allow the player to fight as them in some parts. But while MK9 and X have an actual plot, this is just nonsensical filler 99% of the time up to the final battle.
@@laughingseal2282 Well then, IMO their attempt at writing a Netherrealm-esque story just comes off as them writing a Street Fighter USA-esque episode if Rye-u was the face of the show. Complete with a piece of dialogue referencing the show!
01:09:54 "THROW A COUCH AT THIS BITCH" If there was a cut scene skip in the form of Chun Li getting fed up and throwing couches to interrupt monologues, it would unironically fix most of the story. No awkwardly watching characters posture over nothing to make everything worse, just couch.
Fighting game stories are kinda fucked doing these cinematic story modes. You either tell a coherant story and ignore most of the cast, like T7, or you jam 20+ characters into a 3 hr story and it's a total mess like this and the later NRS games. It sucks that the better option seems to be ignoring 70% of the cast or relegating them to cameos/side stories.
@@MrMonsterKen I think it's worse due to execution, but I think conceptually being more focused is better than this "3rd movie in a mid-00s superhero series" clusterfuck. I really wish they'd go for like a branching level select thing where the side characters get fewer chapters than the main plot but are still in it.
Pull a Street Fighter Alpha 3 and use 3 different storylines. Bison dies like... 3 times at the end of SFA3 before it sticks, with different explanations but he has a way to regenerate instantly, and the story ends with him finding a way to escape (via possessing Rose as he dies again.)
@@zaneseibert Yeah, there's a way to stack the arcade endings so 2/3s of the characters make sense. And Alpha 3 has a MacGuffin that lets Bison Recover instantly. Some endings destroy the Psycho Driver, some don't. So some endings have Bison dying but he can recover. Other endings do destroy the Driver so he can't come back. Rose's ending pretty much explains how he got away.
52:57 - 53:10 I'm not British but let me say this, the Street Fighter devs keep forgetting Eagle exists (before anyone tells me anything, yes I played Alpha 3 Max, yes I remember CVS 2 and yes, I saw the SFV concept art. What I'm saying is, I get the point but that's besides the point).😑
I actually like them not doing something like the NRS chapters, since it helps keep characters actually doing something as one of the biggest flaws in NRS is "You play as this guy for 4 fights and now they'll barely do anything and/or be a jobber." Plus, it usually resulted in the story having to be written around the structure rather than the other way around. And we actually got to play as the villains here rather than them being jobbers. Like, I don't get why we shouldn't do that. It actually helps establish themselves as threats, which is why I like you get to play as Bison.
MK11 would eventually do the last part with Aftermath. Plus IMO the chapters in a NRS story were about the focus of a particular character and how they affected a certain part of the story. Here, the idea of "play as everyone in certain parts" is a good one that's not executed well as one moment has you jump from one fighter to another with that you may or may not use enough as while NRS forces you to use one character for a few fights to get a better feel of them and after completing the story, half the roster.
@dnmstarsi Yeah, it's not executed the best here. But if this style is executed well, I'd take it 1000 times over Nrs. I'm just not a big fan of that structure and how it can limit the story at times. I feel like the jump around could be fixed by if you're playing the story mode for the first time, it will give you a prompt if you're familiar with the character or not and can give you a mini tutorial or something. I hope with the new MK they ditch the chapter system for something new, since they've been shamelessly using that formula since 2009 with little to no updates
Looking at this I realize F.A.N.G. should have been in more scenes, and any time he wasn´t on set all the remaining kings should have been asking "where is F.A.N.G.? We need our best friend F.A.N.G. to be here." The story should have been all about him. I´m sure Street Fighter 6 will correct that mistake.
The plot advances off screen, but never tells you why. Characters just magically appear exactly when the story needs them to, with just the amount of required info. The entire thing with the pieces seems like a thing they’d explain more but they don’t, somehow everyone has them and knows what they do but it’s never explained how they know this or why they were sent out
I said similar when Max did his replay but goddamn, the localization (or more accurately, the LACK of it) kills so much of this mode. Like, it still wouldn't be GOOD but a decent localization would make everything feel more energetic and maybe you could enjoy the silly stupidity of it all instead of just being irritated by its clunkiness. Even the ones who are actually trying to put in extra effort in their performances (F.A.N.G., Rashid, and Juri's being the highlights) can only do so much with what little they're given. Also: CHESS! PIECES! NOT! "THOSE"! "PIECES"! THEY ARE CLEARLY CHESS PIECES! GODDAMNIT!
I can't agree more about FANG. I haven't even played this game that much (A3 is still my fave SF) and I still instantly thought "who the hell is this goofy guy with a weird taffy face that looks like someone pulled on it from both ends?" I don't know exactly what they did wrong either since I typically like more comedic troll/pest characters as well... including BoRaiCho. ;)
Street Fighter Alpha 3 has a very complicated story, but through arcade modes there are basically 3 tales to tell: - Ryu is infused with Psycho Power to make him the new replacement body for Bison. Akuma fiddles with the Dark Hadou, both attempts fail, he breaks free and with his friends defeats Bison. Bison uses the Psycho Driver to regenerate. - Chun-li, Charlie Nash and Guile raid Shadaloo to destroy the Psycho Driver. They do so and defeat Bison, freeing the dolls from his control. Nash stays behind to make sure Bison doesn't recover before the base collapses, killing him but saving Chun-li and Guile. Bison barely manages to regenerate, but is much weaker. - Rose finally gets to kill Bison once and for all... but Bison uses the last of his power to possess her. Guy finds an unconscious Rose and brings her to a hospital. He saved Rose, but he also saved Bison. Once Shadaloo builds a new body, Bison sneaks off to start Street Fighter 2. It CAN be done, and some arcade endings obviously don't make sense (every character somehow beat Bison?) But there is a story in there. SFV seems to just be "things happen: the movie" where there's no cohesion. People just drive across the Atlantic Ocean from Brazil to UK. Or the camera pulls back and shows another character who was just... there the entire time. Ugh. MK9 set such a high bar for story modes, no fighting game has managed to reproduce it. I don't think they should; Boon has always had a knack for movies and flexed way back in 2009. That's his skill. Subspace Emissary from Smash Bros. Brawl is the only story mode that has come close (or surpassed it, depending on your opinion.)
The one, big cinematic story really doesn't suit a fighting game unless you plan around it, hence MK9 nailing it. The best way is feeding the story trough different characters instead of all at once. SFA3's method was so well done, I'm amazed it never caught on (Besides with Tekken 5, which while great, had too many pointless cutscenes). An arcade ladder with two interludes at least, and a cutscene with the boss. I picked up characters I didn't like playing just to get the story, which is a testament to how well it works. Plus, I was super disappointed to hear that SFA3's endings were non-canon. I prefer them over the actual canon... I mean, look at this story mode, that's the result of following canon, and it's ass!
2:29:27 ~ I vote that if for some reason F.A.N.G. is brought back into Street Fighter 6 in some capacity (even as just a little cameo), Matt needs to be the new VA for F.A.N.G. 😁😁😁
This story mode is such a freak of nature because it was obviously made to ape a standard Netherrealm story mode, but it also does many things in its own way that just so happens to include a laundry list of What Not To Do. It's a soulless, utilitarian affair that was shoved out the door. I won't bother going over shit like characters being stupid/annoying or the absurd instantaneous travel since everyone knows all of that. One thing that particularly annoys me is the generally sloppy writing, like consistently calling the macguffins "pieces" instead of something sensible like "chess pieces" or even just "keys", or refusing to name Rashid's friend, causing everyone to sound stilted when referring to her (I even caught a line where Rashid refers to his friend as "they" cuz I guess not even the writers/translators knew the character's gender when they wrote that part). And when the plot _does_ tease something interesting like Guile and Nash reuniting or Boxer and Ed's deal, it doesn't go anywhere. 1:51:14 Well ackshully, the sword called Murasame is entirely fictional, and Miyamoto Musashi was a samurai, not a swordsmith. The closest Musashi ever got to "making" a sword was when he supposedly carved a wooden oar into a blade and won a duel with it, which also probably never happened. 2:27:00 Ken being stronger than Ryu is unfortunately a relic of the past. Originally Ken was more talented and Ryu was the harder worker, thus leveling them out to be as however equal the writers wanted them to be. But then Alpha introduced the Satsui no Hado plot thread, suddenly making Ryu super special and important instead of just some guy who fights good. To think all this shit happened because they threw in a hidden "Evil Ryu" character for the hell of it.
I dunno. CA's movies were trying to be funny (through tropes or some shit), this was trying to be like Netherrealm but came out more like the USA Network cartoon IMO.
But Luger at least got some A's here and there, Necalli just collects L's every single time, hell even Dan and Loyal Khan have some canon wins while Necalli has nothing to back up his trash talk
I believe she's from Amazônia, and Brazil's indigenous people are different from the US. She's a traditional representation of a Brazilian indigenous warrior, just like Papa Capim, a famous characters in Brazil. The monkey is a Mico Leão Dourado, also a very famous Brazilian wild animal.
1:43:47: Any 80s and 90s kid like me can really appreciate that Reading Rainbow reference... ...but you don't have to take my word for it! (Ba-dun-dun!)
My personal thoughts on the story mode: -An attempt was made. I will not take that away from the team. -some good additions like Rashid, Laura, and seeing the fighters interact outside of a fighting context (whenever the story let it happen). I loved the little hands on top of each other with Ryu Chun-li and the gang later in the story. -Horrible misuse of Necalli, as others mentioned in earlier comments -Dialogue can be too stilted. -Nowhere near enough interaction between Charlie and Guile -I know people wanted Charlie/Chun-li/Guile to take on Bison, but...if I recall correctly, Rose predicted Ryu taking on Bison? I may be wrong. -F.A.N.G on paper does offer a good contrast of personality to Vega/Balrog, but in execution just annoying. -Rashid is a gem, and I can see why people see him as the main character of SFV (I do too). SFVI is over a year into its existence but I think they shouldn't shy away from trying another story mode. You can improve from the messups.
Oof. That was rough. Definitely needed to be better structured and better thought out. Like, you REALLY can't have a plot about heroes teaming up to storm the bad guy's base and then they go there 3 separate times and just leave the first two times to try again later. Then again, . . . again. I do like how apparently Juri drives a motorcycle from Russia to Brazil to England though. Because that's the kind of not giving a fuck about continuity I can at least laugh at.
Honestly if Capcom had done this story like sonic adventure or baldur's gate where you experience the campaign as one character at a time, unlock more characters to get more of the full story, it would've been far better.
51:00 Characters confirmed to have fucked
1. Ken
2. Dhalsim
3. C. Viper
4. Hakan (a bunch of times)
5. Guile
thank you for the updated fuck list
We need a list of characters to put on the no-fuck list (should never, will never, can't ever)
Vega (claw) not being on this list genuinely upsets me.
I might be mistaken but doesn't E. Honda also have a family?
Pretty sure Geki never scored.
Necalli died on his way to his home planet.
Ryu: Wow, Necalli was from another planet?
Chun-Li: Uhh, I Guess?
@@monstercombo007 Ken: When are they going to get to the fireworks factory!!???!!
Frieza and Blackbeard from Jump Force: first time?
Don't know who's the biggest jobber: Loyal Khan or Necalli.... I guess Necalli since Total at least has some canon wins but Necalli just jobbed left and right
The problem with Necalli is he seeks to KILL and CONSUME his opponents, and unlike MK, SF characters aren't dying left and right. There's no one he would be allowed to actually consume, not even Dan, so he has no choice but to job constantly.
I dunno, they had plenty of jobbers from SF1 to off, and it's not like Charlie Nash had a happy ending in each Alpha game. Of course they didn't need to go full gore and violence, but they could at least imply what happened just to put Necalli over as a threat.
Meanwhile; Kazuya Mishima - a character who isn't even part of the 'Street Fighter' franchise - killed Dan prior to the events of 'Street Fighter X Tekken' (an act that's only undone (thanks to Pandora's Box) in Sakura and Blanka's Arcade ending).
wait hold up what the fuck-
Source!? That's insane LMAO I need to see this @@ryanm.8720
I love how Necalli is so mysterious and menacing, looking all edgy and shit just to get his ass kicked badly every single time he appears and melt away like a T-1000
Or melt like your local cesspool
In a weird twist of fate, Bison finds himself running for election to be supreme leader. "Some people say using 6 moons to destroy the world is too many...I say its not enough!"
19:50 this is my favorite moment of the entire story mode because no matter who is playing it or which version Ibuki's purse is flying around with reckless abandon and it's never been fixed
So boob physics can't be introduced because hell glitches??
This is the game where Vega and Balrog secretly go around, obtaining signatures for their "Bring Sagat Back" petition.
I now want a Postal mod with Balrog going around "Will you sign my petition?"
F.A.N.G is quite literally the flunkie who keeps trying to sit at the jock table with Bison, Vega, and Balrog because his dad coaches the team.
TBF he's the only one of Bison's goons who does something.
Funny because he is the only king who cares about bison
@@GeneralUile And? Its called terrible writing. Yoshinori Ono pushed his OC hard is all that was.
@@Haka-f3k-u oh, don't get me wrong, I don't like FANG either. In fact, designing him as this goofy character with weird mannerisms and making him the mosy competent villain is some backwards logic IMO.
I judt didn't really agree with the simile made.
@@GeneralUile I'm sure the simile was made because he's very forgettable.
The weirdest thing about Rashid is that his dialogue all feels like it was written in English, run through a translator to maybe Japanese or something, and then run back through to English. It all feels weirdly stilted and inauthentic.
Most of the dialogue feels that way, but his is probably the most obvious. The localization team either didn't care, didn't have time, or (most likely) were told by the suits to shut up and do their jobs as told.
Remember story mode writers: Any time there is a simple misunderstanding between characters that can be solved with a few words, you have to have the characters fight. People love it.
i just don't think it's worth the effort to build a deep story around fighting tournaments
@@WeeWeeJumbo I don’t think it’s bad to try and be a bit serious with it’s story, the big problem here is how obviously thrown together and half assed this story is. Nothing makes sense, everything happens just for the sake of there being a thing, with no thought put into why or how
Fight your rival in SF4 in a nutshell
MK9 has one of my favorite versions: Johnny Cage is being a creepy perv about Sonja Blade in front of Jax, so Jax gets annoyed and beats him silly. There's no misunderstanding, but they are both heroes fighting.
This story mode, especially the ending, is one big episode of the Street Fighter cartoon.
All that's missing is the show's music.
And Canadian VAs.
@@therussianwanderer4851 They should pull a Netherrealm and make costumes for the latest SF that changes their voice into the animated series.
It cutting away from the wrestling match and Matt’s anguish cracked me up
That wrestling match gives mad “when are they gonna get to the fireworks factory” vibes
The only two things I like about this story mode is Urien showing up out of nowhere, and the punch in the gut when it shows that Nash’s final sacrifice attack did fucking nothing.
I'd like to think Nash sucked out the excess psycho-power so Bison is no longer invincible, but they really don't confirm that either way.
Charlie's sacrifice should have killed Bison not Ryu whose only interaction with him was being brainwashed by Bison in Alpha 2.
One of the big draws to fighting games for me as a casual kid was unlocking cool cutscenes for each character when I beat the game with them. Getting just a bunch of still pictures and maybe some in-game animation never cut it for me.
I think you get the story costumes from arcade mode completions. And then colors from survival mode I believe?
@@NickMK Technically, you unlock the ability to buy the costumes and colors with the limited money you get that could be used to purchase characters. Or you just get them all when you buy the upgrade pack to get the other 60% of the game.
I find it kind of hilarious how little they gave Alex any significance here. He’s just there practically as a cameo. Given that he was originally supposed to be the *star* of Street Fighter 3. The storyline to follow. Then again, unlike King Of Fighters, Capcom did have a hard time truly transitioning lead characters for Street Fighter.
You say that as if Ash Crimson doesn't exist.
Weirdly enough I’m kinda ok with that? This is set before III, it’d be weird if he had a major role in this games story. I think that scene he has with Dhalsim does a good job at setting up the greater destiny that awaits him in III
@@alter9933 I say that as if Ash Crimson DID exist. I was implying that KOF was good at getting people to accept new leads. King of Fighters could change lead characters well. Whenever people say KOF 94-98 I think Kyo Kusanagi, including the dream match games. When people say KOF 99 -2022, I immediately think the Nest Saga starring K'. When people say KOF 23, XI, XIII, I think Ash Crimson.
@@akaimizu1and when you think of XIV-XV you think of.... I dunno Ralph? because the lead character on those two games is so bland...
I'm still mad they didn't use the original model for Alex that was planned here. He's younger, so he was going to be a lot less bulky and muscular. But I guess twink Alex will never come to pass.
As one of a dozen F.A.N.G apologists out there, your feelings on him are completely valid. It definitely seems like A.K.I in SF6 is being set up to redeem his concept at least! I wonder if she's going to flap her arms like a bird and shit out poison for her Level 2...
More seriously, A Shadow Falls really fascinates me because as you noted, they really did try. It is neat on some level to see Street Fighter characters exploring locations and interacting in real time, but... the writing, and specifically the reduction of almost every single character in the cast to a single dimension makes it such a hot mess. I'm... glad that we got it, but I'll never accuse it of being good.
That" 2 minutes trailer" made him seem so menacing and then. Nope he is reverse Starscream.
He’s got an apprentice now, so we’ll see where that goes. I’m up for seeing more of him.
@@theliveliestcorpse2997 I'm not a fan of that style of character. But I am very much looking forward to see what A.K.I is like.
@@alwaysxnever She does look cool yeah
AKI seems more like she's inspired by a snake than a bird? But that could just be me
I have a few fixes that would make this a lot better.
1) Give it a three-act structure with the first all the setup and terms.
2) Have the first act be a tournament. It's weird SFV doesn't have one.
3) Have Necalli kill Bison at the beginning. This makes him a real threat for Ryu to beat.
4) Only attack the Shadaloo base once at the finale. It is bizarre they go there three times.
5. When Necalli isn’t on screen all the Street Fighters should be saying “Where’s Necalli?”
@@some_guy117 I know you're being funny but that would actually be a good idea. Act 2 everyone scatters to find the marope but they're worried they're next on Necalli's list. It's a good way to build tension.
You built a better lore than the capcom writers at the time, let’s hope they bring Necalli back in a dlc a maybe a story dlc mode as the main antagonist
@@some_guy117 There is a good story here but it's got bad focus and feels disjointed, nothing flows together. This really feels like Capcom just went with the first draft.
6) Actually let the players fight through the wrestling match instead of blue balling everyone.
I love how R. Mika wears her more conservative outfit (relatively speaking for pro-wrestling) at the beginning of the story, but when she joins up with the gang to save the world she decided that she needed both ass cheeks out. It just adds to the unintentional hilarity of the story mode.
Her and Cammy's outfits are just way too much here. It took 6 entries before CAPCOM finally gave Cammy pants. Though honestly, they could make the leotard work if it actually covered her so she didn't leave an ass print every time she sat on a chair.
@@Nocturne22 I didn't mind their outfits too much, but they definitely detracted from whatever they were trying to do with the SFV story mode.
However, it's funny that Capcom still got everybody thirsting for Cammy more with her default SFVI outfit than they ever did with her leotard. Her and the rest of the SFVI female roster (I say it's the subtle jiggle physics on the musculature).
Capcom really tried on this but as with everything with SF5 (up until recently) it was a very misguided attempt. ono should've realized that with their budget it was going to be impossible to deliver a story mode that would look good to audiences at the time, MK set the bar to "your story mode should be a full blown hollywood movie". This is why would tour is such a stroke of genius for them. They still can't compete when it comes to presentation and budget but now they can instead deliver lore and single player content through RPG gameplay instead of a directed beat-to-beat linear story with high production values The future looks exciting for this franchise with the people currently at the helm.
Man it's a good thing Juri learned how to travel by map, she'd have never been able to ride her motorcycle from Brazil to England otherwise.
Matt talking about wanting a new Saturday Night Slam Masters made me think that since Haggar isn't mayor of Metro City anymore having him become the new head of the CWA would be a great way to continue his character.
Necalli is such an absolute waste of a character despite all the hype teasers arround him. The arcade hints being this prophetic beast consuming strong warriors to then the story is just a filler villain getting punched everywhere he goes.
The ultimate video game jobber, hell even Dan and Mortal Khan have canon W under their belts but Necalli only takes L's every time he's on screen
I'm absolutely flabbergasted by this story mode
Same. It's incomprehensibly incompetent.
@@Flood520 Which had a worse story mode? This or Tekken 7 where the only noteworthy fight was Kazuya and Heihachi's final battle, had a narrator supposedly pissed at Jin for killing his family but the voice actor's performance was emotionless, it tried to make Heihachi Mishima of all characters sympathetic and Akuma was there for some reason.
I'm still mad about all the new Dolls being unplayable.
That thumbnail, though.
Ryu: "...I forgot to turn off the oven!" 😧
Man, the hair and cloth physics in this game are just all over the place aren't they?
_The whole game is all over the place...._
Why is Karin portrayed as the leader? She is supposed to be a prodigy in martial arts and well, everything. In earlier games she was portrayed as being full of herself but still a prodigy, in 5 she is shown to be more mature but still very cocky and equally capable. Her rivarly with sakura stems from those qualities because sakura is also naturally gifted.
She has all the money and has been in direct opposition to Shadaloo since the Alpha storyline. I still don't like it but there it is.
Money
Because she’s rich.
23:10 looks like Henchmen 21 & 24 before they joined up with The Monarch.
1:52:44 She called Birdie a "big fat sack of merde" (merde being "shit" in French)
Bad or Good, it's always kinda refreshing to see fighting game characters doing things other than fighting.
I completely forgot how awful Kolin’s face looked in the story mode. I’m so glad she got a new model when she became playable, she looks soooo much better.
F.A.N.G. and Ibuki confirmed to have a higher body count than Akuma
1:00:35 Zangief's friend from India is Darun Mister from SFEX (yes, that is canon, it was a information in the CFN website)
I don't get why he was just standing around and not playable.
@@Nocturne22Because Darun is Arika property so he can't be used outside of costumes and website info.
Hey now that guests on SF are a thing, maybe we’ll get an EX character as DLC
This was an ambitious step for the ClayFighter series.
...
W-wait, this is what Street Fighter V looks like?
The fact that everyone's hands are all super blurry looking, and yet the camera zooms in and lingers on them CONSTANTLY (both in this mess and in character win screens) is an.. interesting choice.
It bothered me how the made Guile look like a armed security guard.
The best way to describe Necalli is to compare him to the Ultimate Warrior.
Our expectation is that he would be like the Warrior from WWF Golden Era where he is this unstoppable madman who kicks ass and goes over ALL the big name stars to show how badass he is.
But instead its WCW Warrior who is just all hype and just fizzled out when the big match we all wanted to see him in doesn’t live up to the expectation.
Even Kotal Khan has more canon wins than Necalli, and he ended up on a freaking wheelchair and still was better than Necalli, that's how much of a jobber he was... maybe, and maybe later down the line they can give it a second shot and made him actually a threatening presence
"I see you haven't forgotten your Air Force training." Lady here has a highly unclear idea of what an air force is and what it does.
Coming back into this story mode made me realize that Marvel Infinite did it better
Eh, maybe. The story over there had potential and some fun moments but was a bigger disappointment given the premise and had some just as cringy moments as A Shadow Falls
Not much better though.
We’ll marvel infinite had some members of the Guardians of the Galaxy in the roster. So, it had that going for it.
It was more cohesive, that's for sure. I feel like SFV's story mode was either poorly translated or poorly written - Rashid's "friend" (a lover? Who fucking knows) never being named despite being one of, if not the most plot-important character is baffling. She doesn't even appear!
No,Is just awkward toy story toys shit talking about themselves
I am genuinely blown away at how terrible this is. It's almost impressive how structureless and limp everything feels. Why is there no music? Why are any of these characters at any of the places they randomly appear? Why are so many of the fights completely pointless? Why does no one talk like anything even remotely resembling a human being? Seriously, the whole thing feels like somebody wrote an outline intending to flesh it out later, but then a deadline happened and they had to hand it in as is, and whoever was in charge was just like "eh, whatever, this is good enough."
First off, lack of music was on Matt's end since there is music in the game (heck, there's epic battle music between Rashid and F.A.N.G. not present in this video). Second, Street Fighter always did this sort of thing with fighters appearing everyone in such a short amount of time but this is randomness in a cinematic level which doesn't work well here. Third, they tried to be all Netherrealm but didn't get what made their stories work despite issues and it just ends up being like the cartoon but not as fun or silly.
Yeah, A Shadow Falls isn't very good but to be fair, it did the job at a time where SF5 needed content and it does have its moments and fans for its first attempt at a cinematic story mode.
the fact that there's a world threatening event happening and it's up to a group of stupid martial artists to save everyone is bonkers. also how did we go from hosting a fighting tournament for a story to whatever this is? a group of professional writers made this. incredible.
Professional writers? It's more like Capcom told everyone who worked on SF V to dump their favorite overused anime tropes into a blender, and this is the result.
Seriously Bison's plan doesn't even have anything to do with fighting.
A group of writers made this. “Professional” seems a little too generous.
Hey, don't you diss Ryu like that! as proved by MvCi he is a professor
I had this on in the background only half paying attention, but Chun-Li talking about how the moon was going to explode definitely caught my attention and cemented to me that this game is bananas.
F.A.N.G should briefly show back up in a Street Fighter game only for Dan to Raging Demon him (in his own goofy way) then perform the legendary taunt in celebration.
Charlie has now become a modern day Frankenstein's Monster.
Just gonna say it, this movie felt like Capcom trying to tell a story on par with Street Fighter the Animated Series but with their established universe.
Not really, Ono admitted they wanted it to be like MK. It does remind me a lot of the MK9 in the way it is structured, showing the perspective of the bad guys and allow the player to fight as them in some parts.
But while MK9 and X have an actual plot, this is just nonsensical filler 99% of the time up to the final battle.
@@laughingseal2282 Well then, IMO their attempt at writing a Netherrealm-esque story just comes off as them writing a Street Fighter USA-esque episode if Rye-u was the face of the show. Complete with a piece of dialogue referencing the show!
I just now noticed that they misspelled Gill's name in the credits lmao
Good ol' Gil, just trying to get into Street Fighter!
01:09:54 "THROW A COUCH AT THIS BITCH"
If there was a cut scene skip in the form of Chun Li getting fed up and throwing couches to interrupt monologues, it would unironically fix most of the story. No awkwardly watching characters posture over nothing to make everything worse, just couch.
1:36 Hell yeah, the esteemed Mr. Swint is the shit!
Fighting game stories are kinda fucked doing these cinematic story modes. You either tell a coherant story and ignore most of the cast, like T7, or you jam 20+ characters into a 3 hr story and it's a total mess like this and the later NRS games. It sucks that the better option seems to be ignoring 70% of the cast or relegating them to cameos/side stories.
@@MrMonsterKen I think it's worse due to execution, but I think conceptually being more focused is better than this "3rd movie in a mid-00s superhero series" clusterfuck.
I really wish they'd go for like a branching level select thing where the side characters get fewer chapters than the main plot but are still in it.
Pull a Street Fighter Alpha 3 and use 3 different storylines. Bison dies like... 3 times at the end of SFA3 before it sticks, with different explanations but he has a way to regenerate instantly, and the story ends with him finding a way to escape (via possessing Rose as he dies again.)
@@Chadius The way you describe that makes it sound like MK4's Sonya/Jerrick/Jax trilogy stacking on top of each other.
@@zaneseibert Yeah, there's a way to stack the arcade endings so 2/3s of the characters make sense. And Alpha 3 has a MacGuffin that lets Bison Recover instantly. Some endings destroy the Psycho Driver, some don't. So some endings have Bison dying but he can recover. Other endings do destroy the Driver so he can't come back. Rose's ending pretty much explains how he got away.
52:57 - 53:10
I'm not British but let me say this, the Street Fighter devs keep forgetting Eagle exists (before anyone tells me anything, yes I played Alpha 3 Max, yes I remember CVS 2 and yes, I saw the SFV concept art. What I'm saying is, I get the point but that's besides the point).😑
Leave an "F" for Cafe Eliza. Gone too soon.
unironically love this story for being the worst best thing ever
I actually like them not doing something like the NRS chapters, since it helps keep characters actually doing something as one of the biggest flaws in NRS is "You play as this guy for 4 fights and now they'll barely do anything and/or be a jobber."
Plus, it usually resulted in the story having to be written around the structure rather than the other way around.
And we actually got to play as the villains here rather than them being jobbers. Like, I don't get why we shouldn't do that. It actually helps establish themselves as threats, which is why I like you get to play as Bison.
MK11 would eventually do the last part with Aftermath. Plus IMO the chapters in a NRS story were about the focus of a particular character and how they affected a certain part of the story. Here, the idea of "play as everyone in certain parts" is a good one that's not executed well as one moment has you jump from one fighter to another with that you may or may not use enough as while NRS forces you to use one character for a few fights to get a better feel of them and after completing the story, half the roster.
@dnmstarsi Yeah, it's not executed the best here. But if this style is executed well, I'd take it 1000 times over Nrs. I'm just not a big fan of that structure and how it can limit the story at times.
I feel like the jump around could be fixed by if you're playing the story mode for the first time, it will give you a prompt if you're familiar with the character or not and can give you a mini tutorial or something.
I hope with the new MK they ditch the chapter system for something new, since they've been shamelessly using that formula since 2009 with little to no updates
@@commanderproton7763 I can respect that.
Looking at this I realize F.A.N.G. should have been in more scenes, and any time he wasn´t on set all the remaining kings should have been asking "where is F.A.N.G.? We need our best friend F.A.N.G. to be here." The story should have been all about him. I´m sure Street Fighter 6 will correct that mistake.
Man, I'm 1 hour and 30 minutes into this 2 hour, 30 minute long anime and not ONE. SINGLE. THING. has happened to advance the plot.
The plot advances off screen, but never tells you why. Characters just magically appear exactly when the story needs them to, with just the amount of required info. The entire thing with the pieces seems like a thing they’d explain more but they don’t, somehow everyone has them and knows what they do but it’s never explained how they know this or why they were sent out
I said similar when Max did his replay but goddamn, the localization (or more accurately, the LACK of it) kills so much of this mode. Like, it still wouldn't be GOOD but a decent localization would make everything feel more energetic and maybe you could enjoy the silly stupidity of it all instead of just being irritated by its clunkiness. Even the ones who are actually trying to put in extra effort in their performances (F.A.N.G., Rashid, and Juri's being the highlights) can only do so much with what little they're given.
Also: CHESS! PIECES! NOT! "THOSE"! "PIECES"! THEY ARE CLEARLY CHESS PIECES! GODDAMNIT!
I loved Rashid's voice actor, but even he couldn't save the bizarrely literal translations of the dialogue the localization team did.
I can't agree more about FANG. I haven't even played this game that much (A3 is still my fave SF) and I still instantly thought "who the hell is this goofy guy with a weird taffy face that looks like someone pulled on it from both ends?"
I don't know exactly what they did wrong either since I typically like more comedic troll/pest characters as well... including BoRaiCho. ;)
22:40 That is an Unintentional Street Fighter: The animated series reference and no one can tell me otherwise.
actually it's a deliberate one :)
So Necalli feels like someone at Capcom played BlazBlue: Chronophantasma, really liked Azrael and said “Yeah, I can do better” but he couldn’t
Bison is like hogan, booking himself over everyone
_"That doesn't work for me, Officer!"_
Street Fighter Alpha 3 has a very complicated story, but through arcade modes there are basically 3 tales to tell:
- Ryu is infused with Psycho Power to make him the new replacement body for Bison. Akuma fiddles with the Dark Hadou, both attempts fail, he breaks free and with his friends defeats Bison. Bison uses the Psycho Driver to regenerate.
- Chun-li, Charlie Nash and Guile raid Shadaloo to destroy the Psycho Driver. They do so and defeat Bison, freeing the dolls from his control. Nash stays behind to make sure Bison doesn't recover before the base collapses, killing him but saving Chun-li and Guile. Bison barely manages to regenerate, but is much weaker.
- Rose finally gets to kill Bison once and for all... but Bison uses the last of his power to possess her. Guy finds an unconscious Rose and brings her to a hospital. He saved Rose, but he also saved Bison. Once Shadaloo builds a new body, Bison sneaks off to start Street Fighter 2.
It CAN be done, and some arcade endings obviously don't make sense (every character somehow beat Bison?) But there is a story in there. SFV seems to just be "things happen: the movie" where there's no cohesion. People just drive across the Atlantic Ocean from Brazil to UK. Or the camera pulls back and shows another character who was just... there the entire time. Ugh.
MK9 set such a high bar for story modes, no fighting game has managed to reproduce it. I don't think they should; Boon has always had a knack for movies and flexed way back in 2009. That's his skill. Subspace Emissary from Smash Bros. Brawl is the only story mode that has come close (or surpassed it, depending on your opinion.)
The one, big cinematic story really doesn't suit a fighting game unless you plan around it, hence MK9 nailing it. The best way is feeding the story trough different characters instead of all at once.
SFA3's method was so well done, I'm amazed it never caught on (Besides with Tekken 5, which while great, had too many pointless cutscenes). An arcade ladder with two interludes at least, and a cutscene with the boss. I picked up characters I didn't like playing just to get the story, which is a testament to how well it works.
Plus, I was super disappointed to hear that SFA3's endings were non-canon. I prefer them over the actual canon... I mean, look at this story mode, that's the result of following canon, and it's ass!
2:29:27 ~ I vote that if for some reason F.A.N.G. is brought back into Street Fighter 6 in some capacity (even as just a little cameo), Matt needs to be the new VA for F.A.N.G. 😁😁😁
This story mode is such a freak of nature because it was obviously made to ape a standard Netherrealm story mode, but it also does many things in its own way that just so happens to include a laundry list of What Not To Do. It's a soulless, utilitarian affair that was shoved out the door. I won't bother going over shit like characters being stupid/annoying or the absurd instantaneous travel since everyone knows all of that. One thing that particularly annoys me is the generally sloppy writing, like consistently calling the macguffins "pieces" instead of something sensible like "chess pieces" or even just "keys", or refusing to name Rashid's friend, causing everyone to sound stilted when referring to her (I even caught a line where Rashid refers to his friend as "they" cuz I guess not even the writers/translators knew the character's gender when they wrote that part). And when the plot _does_ tease something interesting like Guile and Nash reuniting or Boxer and Ed's deal, it doesn't go anywhere.
1:51:14 Well ackshully, the sword called Murasame is entirely fictional, and Miyamoto Musashi was a samurai, not a swordsmith. The closest Musashi ever got to "making" a sword was when he supposedly carved a wooden oar into a blade and won a duel with it, which also probably never happened.
2:27:00 Ken being stronger than Ryu is unfortunately a relic of the past. Originally Ken was more talented and Ryu was the harder worker, thus leveling them out to be as however equal the writers wanted them to be. But then Alpha introduced the Satsui no Hado plot thread, suddenly making Ryu super special and important instead of just some guy who fights good. To think all this shit happened because they threw in a hidden "Evil Ryu" character for the hell of it.
Its so refreshing to find someone online who still loves Mummies: Alive!
17:20 is basically "They never made it to the fireworks factory!!!" Also Necali's story is similar to Akuma's from the cartoon.
This Story mode makes me feel like someone in Capcom was watching a lot of Channel Awesome Movies.
I dunno. CA's movies were trying to be funny (through tropes or some shit), this was trying to be like Netherrealm but came out more like the USA Network cartoon IMO.
49:54 some time later in the SF6 comic, Mel resents his dad for taking him everywhere. Ungrateful brat. 😂
Necalli might as well be New Generation Lex Luger. Dude got pushed as this central character but was quickly pushed aside. He stinks.
But Luger at least got some A's here and there, Necalli just collects L's every single time, hell even Dan and Loyal Khan have some canon wins while Necalli has nothing to back up his trash talk
Necalli is The Satin Hammer of video games.
With a bit of Cartoon Akuma given the soul hunting.
Just 30 minutes in and this already feels like a monkey's paw situation
I like that comparison between Rashid and Silverbolt, they really are kinda misplaced joke characters.
Also, eyy Beasties
At least Silverbolt gets to do some cool stuff.
So how many times is there a gratuitous butt shot in this story mode?
And why is there none of Zangief?
@@guardiansparky1766 The fact that his hairy ass is totally covered but Cammy's is just swinging in the wind is outrageous.
Rashid looks cool as fuck in sf6
Jesus, they gave the black doll tribal markings, a hunting spear and a pet monkey? Why not go ahead and give her Sheva´s alt costume as well?
I believe she's from Amazônia, and Brazil's indigenous people are different from the US. She's a traditional representation of a Brazilian indigenous warrior, just like Papa Capim, a famous characters in Brazil.
The monkey is a Mico Leão Dourado, also a very famous Brazilian wild animal.
This is the Citizen Kane of goofy nonsense.
I'm never gonna complain about MK11 Story Mode ever again, this made MK11 look like The Elder Scrolls.
1:41:03 Do you have any games on your phone, Nash?
YAAAAS. this is perfect! thank you Matt!
Every scene has like 17 characters appearing from nowhere.
1:18:25 - 1:18:55 Absolute savagery from our boy MattyFatty
1:43:47: Any 80s and 90s kid like me can really appreciate that Reading Rainbow reference...
...but you don't have to take my word for it! (Ba-dun-dun!)
Can someone explain the comment about Korean fighting game characters always getting their eye back? I feel like I'm missing something.
Juri and Hwoarang both had eye patches in their last games. Then they both mysterious got their eyes back.
SF5: Where Third Strike characters go to die
My personal thoughts on the story mode:
-An attempt was made. I will not take that away from the team.
-some good additions like Rashid, Laura, and seeing the fighters interact outside of a fighting context (whenever the story let it happen). I loved the little hands on top of each other with Ryu Chun-li and the gang later in the story.
-Horrible misuse of Necalli, as others mentioned in earlier comments
-Dialogue can be too stilted.
-Nowhere near enough interaction between Charlie and Guile
-I know people wanted Charlie/Chun-li/Guile to take on Bison, but...if I recall correctly, Rose predicted Ryu taking on Bison? I may be wrong.
-F.A.N.G on paper does offer a good contrast of personality to Vega/Balrog, but in execution just annoying.
-Rashid is a gem, and I can see why people see him as the main character of SFV (I do too).
SFVI is over a year into its existence but I think they shouldn't shy away from trying another story mode. You can improve from the messups.
2:02:14 Great impression of The Fear!! 🕷️
woah... I never played this... this is actually like animated series tier...
With the size of everybody's mitts in SF5 they all need to give up street fighting and get in on that slap fighting.
2:16:12 Bison laughed because he knew he'd be back as DLC in 6.
Street Fighter 5: A Hair Moves
1:18:37 for matt having to pause because he's laughing too hard at his own joke
I don't think it was just throwing characters win without focus.. Fan was in like 25% of cut scenes despite being only like 2% of the cast.
41:15 She's basically the Lili to Sakura's Asuka.
What monstrosity did you make in the SF6 character creator, Matt?
Wow this story mode is hot garbage. I never played it before, hearing the story hurt my brain. Thank God we have SF6 now
Oof. That was rough. Definitely needed to be better structured and better thought out. Like, you REALLY can't have a plot about heroes teaming up to storm the bad guy's base and then they go there 3 separate times and just leave the first two times to try again later. Then again, . . . again. I do like how apparently Juri drives a motorcycle from Russia to Brazil to England though. Because that's the kind of not giving a fuck about continuity I can at least laugh at.
....Did they get porn actors to perform the voice acting?
....And porn writers to write the dialogue?
Porn actors would never do this poor of a job, how dare you.
53:13 the only rep my country has in any fighting game is Cyrax, and I'm sure if he returns he's going to be speaking a language no one speaks here
Honestly if Capcom had done this story like sonic adventure or baldur's gate where you experience the campaign as one character at a time, unlock more characters to get more of the full story, it would've been far better.
I love mastering my body after a hard day at work
_Wait, there's a story on this game???_
1:41:58 "Who's an actual death?" Dan's dad, lol