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MFrontier
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 Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2025 11:54 pm
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Of course they flex her best assets and show her fighting Chun-Li in their classic outfits.
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Snomaster1
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Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 12:10 am
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I never thought it would happen. Mai Shiranui in a "Street Fighter" game. One could say that she's going to be basically eye candy for a lot of the guys who play this game. Well,"Street Fighter" has it's own pretty women as well. Never imagined I'd see Mai in this game. I thought she was more at home in games like "Fatal Fury." Well,you know what they say. Life is full of surprises and something like this is a surprise to me.
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WoodDude
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Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 12:34 am
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| MFrontier wrote: | | Of course they flex her best assets and show her fighting Chun-Li in their classic outfits. |
I'm a bit surprised Capcom allowed OG Mai. I feel like SNK put some pressure on them to keep her original outfit as part of the deal (hence why Sakurai omitted her from Smash rather than censor her)
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mdo7
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Location: Katy, Texas, USA
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Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 12:40 am
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| Snomaster1 wrote: | | I never thought it would happen. Mai Shiranui in a "Street Fighter" game. One could say that she's going to be basically eye candy for a lot of the guys who play this game. Well,"Street Fighter" has it's own pretty women as well. Never imagined I'd see Mai in this game. I thought she was more at home in games like "Fatal Fury." Well,you know what they say. Life is full of surprises and something like this is a surprise to me. |
Uh, Snomaster, you do know the upcoming Fatal Fury game will have Chun-Li and Ken from SF in there, you do know that, right? How on earth did you not know of this? Were you aware Power Ranger: Battle of the Grid has both Chun-Li and Ryu in that game too (oddly enough, this game has not received a Japanese release despite having both SF characters in there)?
I mean, how are you not aware of these Snomaster?
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Snomaster1
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Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:58 am
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Quite simple,mdo7. I wasn't. I had no idea that a "Power Rangers" game had Chun-Li and Ryu in it or a "Fatal Fury" game with Ken and Chun-Li in it even existed. I make no excuses for it. I was just unaware of anything like this. I'm just surprised that something like that was even possible.
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Soulwarfare
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Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 10:10 am
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Going to find it a bit difficult to play this game with one hand
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Minos_Kurumada
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Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 12:42 pm
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| WoodDude wrote: |
| MFrontier wrote: | | Of course they flex her best assets and show her fighting Chun-Li in their classic outfits. |
I'm a bit surprised Capcom allowed OG Mai. I feel like SNK put some pressure on them to keep her original outfit as part of the deal (hence why Sakurai omitted her from Smash rather than censor her) |
Well, she is a little nerfed, her boobs don't bounce and ser clothes do cover her ass... Which is kinda weird since Cammy's doesn't, I think that one is to protect Cammy's "TM".
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BadNewsBlues
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Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 5:12 pm
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| WoodDude wrote: | |
I'm a bit surprised Capcom allowed OG Mai. I feel like SNK put some pressure on them to keep her original outfit as part of the deal |
Which is interesting given the argument some made about SNK capitulating to certain sensibilities by making her default outfit in the Garou sequel less revealing. All the same I doubt it that’s what happened.
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Minos_Kurumada
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Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 6:24 pm
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| BadNewsBlues wrote: |
| WoodDude wrote: | |
I'm a bit surprised Capcom allowed OG Mai. I feel like SNK put some pressure on them to keep her original outfit as part of the deal |
Which is interesting given the argument some made about SNK capitulating to certain sensibilities by making her default outfit in the Garou sequel less revealing. All the same I doubt it that’s what happened. |
Fun fact: the new outfit its in character.
As a looooong lasting KoF player, I can attest there was a lot of old Mai's art with her being a metalhead/wearing biker outfits in the 90s.
That part of her was abandoned with the times, but it's obvious that the team reviving Fatal Fury took a look at this old art and decided to revive it.
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Silver Kirin
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Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 7:07 pm
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| Minos_Kurumada wrote: | | Fun fact: the new outfit its in character.
As a looooong lasting KoF player, I can attest there was a lot of old Mai's art with her being a metalhead/wearing biker outfits in the 90s.
That part of her was abandoned with the times, but it's obvious that the team reviving Fatal Fury took a look at this old art and decided to revive it. |
Yeah, there's a well known promo illustration from Fatal Fury 2 that depicts Mai wearing casual clothers, with a balck jacket that I think it makes alussion to the fact that she is a heavy metal fan according to her bio. I really like that part of her character, I sometimes feel that people put too much empahsis on Mai's sex appeal and her status as one of the most fanservicey characters ever created, but I really like her personality, seriously, I really like those little details in the old Fatal Fury and King of Fighters games, like the special intros she had when facing Andy.
I also wonder if her new biker look is inspired by Chizuru Kagura from the KOF series, in '97 and '98 Mai and Chizuru were on the same team alongside King, but Mai and Chizuru kind of shared some characteristics, like both of them fitting the yamato nadeshiko achetype (one of Mai's win quotes in Capcom vs. SNK 2 is even "I am a true Japanese woman, kind and graceful!"), but having some unexpected hobbies, Chizuru's being motorcyle racing.
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Zased
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Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 7:13 pm
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| Minos_Kurumada wrote: | | Well, she is a little nerfed, her boobs don't bounce and ser clothes do cover her ass... Which is kinda weird since Cammy's doesn't, I think that one is to protect Cammy's "TM". |
Might just be part of the jank that is the RE Engine. Still though, given how skittish Capcom is to this stuff lately it's a pleasant surprise.
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