OK, there's nothing too objectionable about the French guy. He's also not that interesting, but at least he doesn't make me facepalm like Rufus or Crimson Viper, or scratch my head in what-were-they-thinking like Crash Test Dummy Guy.

Who am I missing? Oh, the crazy Korean woman. She's not actually available in the version I have. Probably unlocked by beating the game with somebody I can't beat the game with. That's usually how these things work. Nothing I've read about her is that encouraging, though. She comes off in the Street Fighter Encyclopedia like a female version of Bolo Yeung's character from Bloodsport. Snappin' people's necks with the Crazy Eyes and then being annoyed when the audience doesn't get off on it.

I dunno. I'm probably just old, but I don't really get it with these newbies. :)

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Also, "El Fuerte IRL".

And from the newcomers, there *is* Abel, who....basically is Cammy, except as a guy, so his decency kinda gets overlooked in that case.

I dunno if one should count Gouken as a newcomer or not, though, given he's the latest Ken/Ryu copy/tweak/paste, but I suppose he kinda deserves a mention.

But yeah, it's kinda sad that the last pure newcomer to the franchise I thought was pretty awesome was Sakura back in the Alpha series.

Crazy Korean woman is Juri, and you probably can't get her because she only shows up in Super Street Figher IV, though she's normally selectable there. There's also Hakan (Now we're street fighting with OIL! - seriously, he's apparently covered with cooking oil.)

Street Fighter has *always* had that.

But as far as new characters go... I rather like C. Viper (if she'd only lose the absurd hairstyle), though only from a mechanics perspective. Well, and looks, if I'm being honest. Abel pisses me off at the moment but I suspect I'll come to like him once I figure out how to play him properly. If his treatment of me when he's controlled by the CPU is any indication, he's a cheap-ass mofo with a throw range and priority that puts Zangief to shame. And I laugh my ass off every time El Feurte appears, but ... well, he seems to be the comic relief.

What I dislike the most is what the art shift has done to the existing characters. Ryu and Ken are supposed to be beefcake manly men, okay, I get that, but good god, they're not sporting six-packs, they're sporting the 7-11 beer cooler. And what. the fuck. is wrong with Chun-Li's head?

I mean, they're not horribly disfigured, but they're *wrong* all the same.

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This has to be the single funniest summary of a SF character I've heard. Thanks for the funny mental image.

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And also, the text for winning with Sakura over Sagat is _hilarious_.