Month: December 2014

As some of you may know, a couple of weeks back Capcom and Sony announced that Street Fighter V was in development for PlayStation 4 and PC. Since then, we’ve seen a couple of gameplay trailers as well as a stage demo at Capcom Cup 2014 courtesy of Capcom’s Peter “Combofiend” Rosas and Twitch’s Mike Ross.

While alot of folks immediately posted their own impressions and observations of the game, Vesper Arcade decided to wait a bit and take their time to review and process the footage for more in depth impressions of it. The result is this three episode series breaking down what we’ve seen so far. The first episode, which you can catch below, focuses on Street Fighter’s most iconic character, Ryu.

In the breakdown, Vesper Arcade notes a few interesting things that folks might not have noticed. These include what seems to be a new normal as well as some interesting changes to his existing ones, such as the possibility that his far standing strong and far standing fierce animations from Street Fighters III and IV may actually be switched around (which was the case in Street Fighter Alpha and Alpha 2).

The other interesting thing about Ryu is how his hadouken gains an additional hit once he activates his special elemental stance, and that this property remains throughout the match, even when his stance runs out. Not only that, the number of hits that he gains on his fireball increases every time he activates.

Of course, these are just some of the things that the video covers, so check it out below and share your thoughts on it (as well your own observations on Street Fighter V’s Ryu) in the comments.

Source: Vesper Arcade, thanks to ruthless_nash for the tip.