Evil Ryu and Oni Akuma have finally appeared in AE. Here's the first grainy footage of them:
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Fuck... Yes...

Even mr. Blurrycam can't douse my boner upon seeing that.

I'm curious why Akuma is standing/walking like Gouken, though.

Gouken is so massive because he is ONI, he's just been able to control it. Alums just wants to use it's full potential no matter how unstable and Ryu is technically just on the level of Akuma, although seeing parts of that video may mean he's at least Shin now.

Some more videos and screens:

Screens:
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Video (7 in total):

Oh fuck...

Oni Akuma

• People are comparing Oni more to Gouken than to Akuma. He looks slower and his sweep is different from Akuma's. Regular fireballs don't travel full screen (don't know the strength of the punch button, though, but Red Fireball like ones do travel full screen). His air dash seem to have some recovery, too.

• Has a new teleport/air dash move by doing quarter-circle back + 3x Punches.

• Very low health, some people are speculating the same as Akuma, 850.

• His 'Gouken Palm' special crosses up and it might be fireball invincible.

• Ultra 2 is Akuma's Ground Pound Super Art (Kongou Kokuretsu Zan) from Third Strike. Looks to have the same command, too. Down, Down + 3x Punch.

Evil Ryu

• Evil Ryu's most closely resembles Akuma in Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition. Many of their moves are very similar. A few examples: Far Standing Hard Punch is the same, Crouching Hard Kick (sweep) is slightly slower, Hurricane Kick can juggle into a Shoryuken and it doesn't break armor.

• Akuma's Fireball, Red Fireball, Shoryuken, Hurricane Kick, Demon Flip and Teleport all look to be pretty close to what Evil Ryu can do. It looks like the major tricks Akuma can perform, like cross up Hurricane Kicks and Demon Flip traps, so can Evil Ryu.

• Has a new special move, appears to be quarter-circle forward + Hard Kick. This performs an Axe Kick with an exaggerated animation.

• He definitely has low health (stamina), probably some where around Akuma's, I'd guess 850.

• Evil Ryu's Crouching Medium Kick is like the one in Third Strike.

• His Super is a Raging Demon.

• Ultra 1 is a souped up Fireball. This mostly closely resembles normal Gouken's Ultra 2, as it appears that you can charge it up and then release it.

• Toward + Medium Kick does a lunging Hop Kick, but it doesn't hit overhead.

Watching the stream and I'm gonna make a call;

Oni Akuma is the most powerful character in SF canon. Stronger than Oro (using both arms), stronger than Gill, stronger than Shin Bison, stronger than Akuma's own Shin form. His animations are terrifying. His fight intro shows him breaking off his signature beads and the beads orbit him a bit. Crazy. You must see his new Mountain Breaker. He should have been put in MvC3 as a cross-promotion thing.

Ryu has this hole in his chest so people are assuming Akuma did something to make Ryu go crazy. His animations look more like SNK's Riot of the Blood than Dark Hadou. He has Denjin Hadoken (same as Gouken) and a suped up Shoryu-Reppa as Ultras.

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I'M GIDDY

I want to know what RoXer (Akuma) and Khuntry (Ryu, Gouken) thinks about these characters, and if they're thinking about switching up.

Well I use Akuma a lot (or did before Ibuki) and the style is looking so different that it's a brand new character more than anything. Sooooo glad the ground pound is back though.

Evil Ryu is essentially Akuma with some tweaks, so it'd be more likely I'd go that way.

Fuck, I just seen that ultra. The style of him flying up after him looking like that is incredible.

I'd hazard a guess Evil Ryu is better than Akuma. That axe kick/stomp thing looks as useful as Makoto's chop (especially EX version).

Find it interesting Japan is calling Ryu 'Evil' instead of 'Dark' or 'Killing Intent'. Guess it lessens confusion. I could be reading it wrong, though.

Trying not to view too many videos. I want to be surprised when I play it

There's a thought that ONI is actually Akuma and Gouken merged, or with Akuma stealing Goukens essence...

That or he embraced the Power of Nothingness that Gouken uses. It certainly looks different from Dark Hadou.

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Oni/E.Ryu Animated Endings:



-Nice callback to Akuma's mountain breaker ending from way back. And Evil Ryu is suffering the Dark Hadou like SNK's Riot of the Blood.-

A lot of people are hating on the idea of two more shotos, even though one if barely a shoto per se and E.Ryu seems like a fine addition according to players. Not to mention they've got more coverage in 24hrs than Yun/Yang did when AE came out.

The character select screen seems to show an obvious two slots left, and I would take a look at that tweet from Ono hinting at two from a set of fighters could be in. One may very well be Hugo. So if there's a 'theme' with the characters added; Yun and Yang are twins, Oni and E.Ryu from the Dark Hadou plot, then Hugo could be joined by his 3s rival Alex. Or be joined by another Third Striker in general (Elena). Or the pair will be split between 3s and Alpha reps (Rolento or Karin).

There is no reason to believe Poison would be added. I don't really know why people believe that so badly.

These are my guess.

As I said before, there clearly is a theme to the characters. They come in two and are linked somehow.

Hugo is cleary one of the last two so it's likely that Alex will be the other one. I'd personally like Rolento, R.Mika, Sodom, Birdie (you'll be noticing a pattern here), Q or Poison as a "new character".

People think Poison could be added because she had a moveset and eveything thought up for some fighting game that was cancelled so it's just a case of transfering them to SSFIV plus she's linked to Hugo so it would fit with the theme. The DLC lacks anything resembling a female so Poison would even that out a bit.

Poison is unlikely though because Ono said ages ago that due to the "confusion" over her gender it would be too difficult to put her into a SF game. Retcon her back to a female, like she was always supposed to be and everything is fine. No confusion. The only reason there was the confusion was because everyone was uptight about hitting women in games. It's fine now, so you can retcon that or whatever.

Elena, R.Mika and Rolento have all be said by Ono not to be in for varying reasons. So it's probably going to be Alex.

All Evil Ryu and Oni Akuma videos are being deleted, some accounts are being suspended for them aswell.

Apparantly they were not supposed to be revealed yet and it's likely they were unlocked by a password or something. Ono spoke about them on his Twitter and got in trouble for doing so. Or so says Eventhubs.

I don't see what the big deal is. They revealed them already, it's not like two completely secret characters were leaked.

Well if you consider they just appeared with no official character trailers and out of schedule then I can understand why that would bother Capcom. Don't see why Ono would get chewed out, not like he gave the arcade code away. Whoever did probably spilled the XBLive achievements for them as well.

They should jump on damage control and get those trailers out, but most likely they'll ask arcade operators to reset there units and lock them again. It's a lot of free buzz and people were very excited for them.

Just had a quick session with my bro and I hate that I play way better offline than online. Not talking about lag or anything, I just think different and make stupid moves that I wouldn't do otherwise. Ugh.

Nonshaking, nongrainy gameplay:

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European Boxart:
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Surprised it's not showing some cheesy shot of Ryu punching out of the screen or something like that.

Would have been cool if they added an exclusive character like KARIN or somebody as added incentive. Though I would have went with Juni/Juli or Sean with most of their assets already in their (Juni/Juli can have Cammy's body and Sean can use a modified shoto body). Then it's just new animations, voice work, music, and a wee bit more. game's stacked as it is, just thinking up added stuff.

The US boxart could still have that cheesy shot. You never know.
I'm surprised it's Bison at the top of the box. I'd have thought it would have been Seth and/or Juri.

Any character they added as incentive would have had to have been added to the console versions or people would complain, missing the whole point of an incentive.
They could have an incentive in the form of giving the 3DS version the AE DLC before the consoles get it, if 3DS gets DLC. Thats my suggestion for an incentive, no proof or anything suggesting they'd do that.

Aaaaaaand that's exactly what went down today. Capcom has 'asked' arcade owners to re-lock Oni and E.Ryu. Guess we'll have to wait for official reveals in the future.

Pretty sure Capcom won't be locking characters in arcades in the future, they'll go and embrace the arcade DLC network that SNK and others took to.

I hate the shoulder 'triggers' on the PS3 controller. Everything else is great, but jumping with a random HP or HK pisses me off.

Anyway, anybody with a PS3 who wants to fight TPWW champ are out of excuses for two whole days before I lose access to all things online gaming.

I'm throwing out random punches and kicks in the air, I'm totally free have the time.

Kalyx = Undefeated on PSN (Sakura)

Unfortunate that I don't have my ps3 copy here. That sakura record would be toast.

Very good matches with kalyx this evening. Some really close matches.

Today, I invented the term "SakuRape", and administered it to a friend of Fignuts. In other news, me and Fignuts evened out our Sak vs Juri, with me finally answering defeats from weeks ago. Pretty sure the tally's in my court now.

EX Senpuu for the win.

Fignuts plays with Gouken now. Should have pulled out my experimental Makoto. She's in the oven.

Gonna see if I can get my bud to record the best match and put it on JewTube.

The score is tied between sak and juri. A win for both of us tonight.

But considering I went 2-1 against sakura overall, I wouldn't be talking about "sakuraping" me. Buddy.

The first Juri vs Sakura match, and the Cammy vs Chun-li match were easily the best matches. Try and get those two up.

Didn't say I SakuRaped you but that's comin.

I don't know if he'll upload two matches but I'll ask.

Why is is so hard to upload two?

I just didn't wanna 'over step my boundaries'. He's the one who records, edits, uploads, and all that. BUT I'LL ASK

Huge fighting game release this week but that SSF4 still has some upcoming content in the future. Somebody did some tutorial vids on the the brothers:

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According to Kotaku, Ono has said AE will never go to consoles.