Though we likely won't know for sure until the full game is released on February 16th, right now it appears that Brazilian Street Fighter III brawler and little brother to Street Fighter V's Laura has gone through a radical racial transformation
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Every Street Fighter is called a misstep of the series since Street Fighter III..and even the Alpha games were not liked by everyone.
SF V had a miserable start but later it did a lot things actually better than SFIV and SF6.
SF6 is the first SF since SFII Turbo for that I did not buy at launch. And today, around 6 months after its launch I still have no motivation to buy it.
I've had every Street Fighter on launch since SFII on the SNES. SFV is definitely my least played of them all.
SF6 is very good. You should give it a second look.
Maybe in 2-3 years when there is a version that has characters I care for.
So far there is not one of the new characters I like..and my favourite 4 are not a part of it either. (Bison, Balrog, Sagat and Vega) + the whole hip hop style and the crappy music turned me totally off.
Looking forward a lot to Tekken 8.
SF4 vanilla was loved by most and and not considered a misstep. It wasn't until they went revision crazy that people started turning on Capcom.
Don't remember the criticques it got for the big hands and feet, the sometimes weird looking faces, the lame boss (Seth) and that so many characters were shotos and yup..the many new versions. Just every SF got its haters no matter how good it was.
It was criticized for the first trailers having an interesting art style with those ink splashes, but the real game had none of that and people felt cheated. And Capcom decided to add some of those effects in the game later because of the backlash. But I don't remember any other big complaints about it.
I grew out of fighting games, loved them as a kid but online you just get your ass kicked over and over leaving just the bare bones single player and also having no friends anymore who like fighting games either just makes me not want to buy or play them anymore.
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Bit of a stretch here...
LOL are you kidding me? It's obviously an art style and not canon, look at Laura, she also looks white.
Johnny Storm and Heimdall, a Norse god, get portrayed by black actors and we're not supposed to panic. Someone draws some art of Sean looking lighter than we saw him in SF3 years ago and everyone is supposed to lose their minds.
Plenty of characters in this game, and the Street Fighter universe in general, who are not caucasian. This whole boo-hoo article about diversity is garbage. So a character might have gone through a skin tone adjustment. Which probably won't even be reflected in-game because I doubt Sean will be in it. Big deal.
Like I said. Plenty of dark skinned or non-caucasian characters in the game and universe. Take your pick and quit crying already. When actual racism happens, be upset. Like when a black guy gets fired for the same thing a white guy did and got away with.
Bitching about a fictional character being made to look different is the kind of thing that makes a good cause fall on deaf ears. Because it gets mired in frivolous complaints and people stop caring. Because eventually you start feeling like it becomes racist just to be breathing with a certain skin color.
I'm so tired of all these ridiculous overreactions to things. These kinds of people go out of their way to be offended and whine and cry until they get what they want. People need to shut the fu** up grow thicker skin.
You want to see whitewashing? Look no further than Vanessa from Virtua Fighter. She was dark-skinned, then they changed her, as if the character took advice from Sammy Sosa.