Street Fighter 6was a roaring success. AfterSF5’s less-than-stellar reception from fans,Capcomreally needed to step up with this next entry, and step up it did.
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With such an ambitious offering, though, it’s only natural that some details fell through the cracks. While nearly everything about it is incredibly well-polished – from its outstanding presentation to one of the biggest single-player campaigns in a fighting game, ever – there are some details in Street Fighter 6 that make absolutely no sense.
10Everyone’s Always Ready To Throw Down
SF6’s World tour mode allows you to explore and discover a vast open world through a combination of RPG and classic Street Fighter mechanics. Just like any good open-world RPG, a big part of your exploration will involve random combat encounters.
Very often, you’ll be the one starting these encounters by just walking up to someone and asking them for a fight. While there is no lack of gang members and shadowy figures in the Street Fighter universe, it’s a bit strange that a random construction worker is just as willing to engage you in good-natured fisticuffs as some of the biggest martial arts masters in the world.
9Mike Haggar’s Giant Statue
Though mayor Mike Haggar from the Final Fight series does not appear in SF6, his presence is still felt all over world tour mode. As the “greatest mayor metro city ever had” (Sorry, Cody,) Mike Haggar is a beloved figure in theStreet Fighteruniverse.
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As revered as he might be, though, he was just a mayor. That means that funding for his statue had to come entirely from the city’s budget, and there aren’t many cities that would spend the equivalent of a small country’s GDP building a 46-foot tall statue for a former mayor.
8Yoga Breaks Every Bone In Your Body
Unfortunately for anyone with an insufferable friend who does yoga, practicing this ancient Hindu discipline really does have a number of mental and physical benefits. And no one can vouch for it as much as SF6’s Dhalsim.
Dhalsim is able to use his vast experience with Yoga to fight through elongating his limbs to an unbelievable extent. Yoga has been proven to improve flexibility, but even so, for Dhalsim to manage the impossible reach of his yoga lance attack, he would need much more than just muscle flexibility. He would have to be able to break every bone in his arms and immediately heal them, on command.
7Every Single Fighting Tournament Has Been Hosted By An Evil Organization
Like any self-respecting fighting game, Street Fighter’s story involves a bunch of convoluted lore to explain why every socio-political conflict eventually comes down to a series of one-on-one fistfights. In Street Fighter, it’s called the “World Fighting Championship.” And, as long as it has existed, every single tournament has been organized by some kind of terrorist organization.
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Past hosts include Shadaloo, S.I.N, andthe honest-to-god Illuminati, and the trend continues in SF6. Keep in mind that, in the Street Fighter world, fighting seems to be the most popular pastime internationally. Can you imagine if, in the real world, the world cup was exclusively organized by [The rest of this sentence has been redacted for the safety of TheGamer’s editorial staff]?
6Dancing Is As Dangerous As Electrocution
As a fighter, Manon uses her dancing and judo training to gain an advantage over her opponents with a neutral/grappler move set. It makes for very fun gameplay, but it’s kind of weird that Manon’s dancing can compete with ancient, deadly fighting techniques.
Of course, the actual explanation for this is that the game would be no fun for anyone involved otherwise. But it does mean that in-universe, getting ballet-spun is as dangerous as being on the receiving end of a green-skinned, electrified freak of nature hitting you with 8.6 kilonewtons of centrifugal force.
5Guile’s Allowed To Look Like That
Street Fighter’s quintessential military man is back for another entry in the series, and besides some updated moves, he’s also dripping with personality, with a more stylish look than ever before.
And that’s just the problem. Guile is a working US airforce pilot, and they have to adhere to a strict dress code that strictly prohibits “dripping with personality.” Now, believe it or not, his second outfit actually complies with most of it. What does not comply, however, is his character-defining hairstyle and brand-new goatee. Both of which are express violations of the US airforce’s dress and appearance policy.
4Jamie Straight-Up Kills You With His Super
There is no absence of evil or morally questionable characters in the Street Fighter universe, so it only makes sense that when you fight them, they come at you with everything they’ve got.
Jamie, however, is not one of those characters. SF6’s website describes Jamie as a peacekeeper, and someone who “places justice and friendship above all else.” Most of his interactions are incredibly wholesome and respectful. That makes it all the weirder that Jamie’s level three super involves tearing out his opponent’s throat with his bare hands. Talk about poor sportsmanship…
3Masters Hate The Best Gifts You Can Give Them
World tour is filled with master interactions designed to catch you off-guard and flip your preconceptions on their head, like Chun-Li’s favorite kind of food being sweet treats instead of super-spicy noodles. Even then, it’s a little baffling that almost every master seems toabsolutely hatethe gifts thatincrease your bond with them the most.
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Luke thinks the game you gift him is too scary, Marisa has never tasted cold soup before, and the best gift for the aforementioned sweets-lover Chun Li is a can of cold fish. It complements the general theme of expecting the unexpected, but you wouldn’t expect a positive reaction if you gave a pet tarantula to your arachnophobic friend.
2A Needlessly Convoluted Assassination Plot
Spoiler warning for the end of world tourTowards the end of world tour, you discover that the reason why Bosch was so obsessed with getting stronger was so he could win the World Fighting Championship and explode a bomb hidden in the championship belt, taking out this game’s main antagonist, JP.
The plan fails, which, to be fair… Noduh.What was going to happen if someone else won the tournament, anyway? JP holds the belt on numerous occasions before the end. Why not detonate the belt then? And, for that matter, are guns not a thing in the Street Fighter universe?
1Veteran Characters Move Better Than They Ever Have At Their Age
One of the best things about SF6’s story is that, after many years, we get to see beloved characters grow up and move on to the next stages of their lives. However, it’s weird that they can still move like that after decades of getting rocked in the head by the best fighters in the world.
Though the “old, powerful mentor” is a staple of the martial arts genre, those characters usually compensate for their old age by developing new fighting styles. Veteran characters in SF6 not only still move like they did back in the eighties, but they also come with a variety of new moves. Seriously, how are Chun-Li’s knees not mush after (at least) 15 years of hyakuretsukyakus?
