LAST EDITED ON Dec-27-10 AT 00:51 AM (EST)
>Yes, this is the best Christmas present I could have had from Ben.
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>My only question is how much of Ler Drit is Sakura picking up? All
>she's done thus far is Shotokan moves, and I doubt Gryphon knows much
>of that.Well, if you look at it like an RPG campaign (which is how WL began, after all), she "starts" with the moveset she had in Street Fighter Alpha, which was all self-taught Shotokan-alike stuff. Thus far, what she's learned from Gryphon has been largely the lower-level techniques - ways of moving, methods for focus and concentration, that pivoting backfist thing - and her "super moves" are all still very Ryu-like. Since what gets described explicitly in the text is mainly the high-level stuff, the change thus far isn't easy to depict.
She's never going to lose that Shotokan "flavor" entirely - and Gryphon doesn't want her to, because diversity is strength - but as we go on, we'll see her style evolving into its own thing, much as G's own continues to develop. Battle 07, for instance, will see her unveil a new trick that's part one and part the other, unmistakably marking her out as not just a dritkar, but one who could only have been trained by him.
(There's just a touch of this in 06: When she throws the sho-ohken that takes down Juni, she puts a Gryphon-style electro-gauntlet flare on it.)
--G.
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