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[lucebuce12]

So, zeku is two guys or the start of strider clsn? I mean strider is from the future

In this game, we have Zeku Old who uses Strider-esque moves and Zeku Young who uses BUSHIN STYLE. Same person, different ages.

Zeku old goes on to be the founding member(s) of the Strider clan.

 

[MrCarter]

Zeku bgm

Thanks. One of the best OST’s in gaming right now and that’s a feat for fighting games nowadays.

 

[Blues1990]

probably lucia

I would love the other characters from the Final Fight series to make an appearance in Street Fighter V.

 

[MrCarter]

For those looking to set Zeku to Japanese, his Japanese VA is Nobuo Tobita, who you may recognize as Straizo from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure & Meleoron from Hunter x Hunter.

Wow and the JoJo train is still running. Great stuff.

 

[Demoli]

I have to say man, thematicly it makes no sense to have the model resembling a strider not being the one using strider's moves.

 

[Scotia]

Found this great post on Reddit (it's the first comment) that details how many moves Zeku has (hint: it's a lot):

Old Zeku has:
4 Special Moves (1 of them (Bushin Flip) having 3 follow-up options)
1 Unique Attack (Overhead)
Stance Switch to Young Zeku (down,down + 2P)
V-Trigger dash and unique VT combo-ender to this form.

Young Zeku has:
4 Special Moves (1 of them (Run) having 3 follow-up options)
13 Unique Attacks / Moves
Stance Switch to Old Zeku (down,down + 2P)
V-Trigger dash and unique VT combo-ender to this form.

That's a total of:
8 Special Moves (14 if you count the 6 follow-up options to Bushin Flip / Run)
14 Unique Attacks
Stance Switching via V-Skill / down,down + 2P
V-Skill / V-Trigger shenanigans, both V-Triggers have different teleport dash framedata and different combo ender.
Oh and of course both forms have totally different set of normals and throws.

Link

 

[Master Thespian]

Looped version of the theme. Love this theme. SFV's OST is so sick.

 

[Tizoc]

For those looking to set Zeku to Japanese, his Japanese VA is Nobuo Tobita, who you may recognize as Straizo from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure & Meleoron from Hunter x Hunter.

Thank you for the info.

 

[Rymuth]

Zeku has the biggest moveset in the franchise. 41 in total.

So, to keep score

Kolin: first (non-boss) character with ice powers
Ed: first character with non-traditional inputs
Abigail: biggest character yet
Menat: first 'puppet master' character
Zeku: biggest moveset in the franchise

Lot of milestones broken with this season.

 

[jett]

Hold on, did they actually live-record the violins in Zeku's theme?

Plenty of the tracks in the game have live instrumentation.

I genuinely dislike Hideyuki Fukasawa's body of work, as he has composed more misses than hits when he was brought on to compose SFIV's soundtrack (and the other games he'd composed music for). Mostly due to the fact most of his songs and melodies don't have a jingle that sticks with you, but his music generally sucks. I think the only good BGM in SFIV was Underground Arena, but he really butchered the arrangements for the character themes in that game.

...but he made RASHIDO and Brazil Round 2, which are two of the best themes in SFV.

SF4's soundtrack is awful from top to bottom though.

 

[lucebuce12]

SF4's soundtrack is awful from top to bottom though.

Sorry?

I couldn't hear you.

 

[DR2K]

So, to keep score

Kolin: first (non-boss) character with ice powers
Ed: first character with non-traditional inputs
Abigail: biggest character yet
Menat: first 'puppet master' character
Zeku: biggest moveset in the franchise

Lot of milestones broken with this season.

Season 1 characters were fucked

Juri - lost multiple specials, adjusted into another character entirely, still garbage
Alex - trash, still trash.
Ibuki - lost tons of moves and specials, was considered trash until players realized you can’t block what you can’t see.

 

[jett]

Sorry?

I couldn't hear you.

I guess some's okay.

I don't like how most of it is this electro-techno thing.

 

[Dead End Irony]

Man I'd love Maki in the game, but I hope the presence of Ibuki and Zeku aren't already oversaturating that design niche for it to be a possibility.

Maki would bring me out of retirement and I'd start playing the game competitively again lol. Chances of her making it are likely slim to none though. Too bad...

 

[Blueblur1]

...but he made RASHIDO and Brazil Round 2, which are two of the best themes in SFV.

SF4's soundtrack is awful from top to bottom though.

I agree with this post SO MUCH.

 

[sixteen-bit]

If Zeku is a Strider does that mean we'll see © Moto Kikaku @ the title screen

 

[PhantomThief]

Zeekoe?

 

[lucebuce12]

Zeekoe?

Zeh-Kuh

 

[DJwest]

I really like his design but I'm not sure about his move set. Hopefully he'll grow on me. When are w getting news about season 3?

Ibuki - was considered trash until players realized you can’t block what you can’t see.

Lmao.

 

[PhantomThief]

Zeh-Kuh

Zeekoe!

 

[Ryce]

If Zeku is a Strider does that mean we'll see © Moto Kikaku @ the title screen

I have a feeling Capcom will avoid using the word Strider, like how Menat's master isn't mentioned by name or how Gill's secret society isn't actually referred to in-game as the Illuminati.

 

[MrCarter]

Found this great post on Reddit (it's the first comment) that details how many moves Zeku has (hint: it's a lot):




Link

Very nice. It seems like they put the most effort into him as a character out of the whole cast - and we still don’t know what his second V-Trigger is yet either. GG’s Capcom.

 

[Lulubop]

Zeku might have the goat theme

 

[Scotia]

Blog post is up:

http://www.capcom-unity.com/strumslinger/blog/2017/10/16/zeku-the-ever-changing-ninja-infiltrates-street-fighter-v-on-october-24

 

[cryptosporidium]

Found this great post on Reddit (it's the first comment) that details how many moves Zeku has (hint: it's a lot):




Link

The fuck. This is gunna hard af for a casual like me.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Blog post is up:

http://www.capcom-unity.com/strumslinger/blog/2017/10/16/zeku-the-ever-changing-ninja-infiltrates-street-fighter-v-on-october-24

"His younger version sure looks familiar!"

lol

 

[Shadic7700]

Season 1 characters were fucked

Juri - lost multiple specials, adjusted into another character entirely, still garbage
Alex - trash, still trash.
Ibuki - lost tons of moves and specials, was considered trash until players realized you can’t block what you can’t see.

Y'all missed GodKing Urien the best character of SFV and my personal favorite street fighter

 

[kewlmyc]

So Strider is now officially part of the SF universe.

Can't wait till Dante is also confirmed to be part of the SF universe somehow.

 

[Mr. X]

Remixed themes have been terrible, the original music in SFV has been solid to great so far.

 

[kikiribu]

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[jett]

Remixed themes have been terrible, the original music in SFV has been solid to great so far.

Patently false.

Chun Li

Ryu

Zangief

Vega

Birdie

Alex

Guile

Metro City Stage

Classic Cammy Stage

Classic Ryu Stage

Ryu/Kobu arrangement

SFV has the best fighting game soundtrack in ages.

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

Cammy and Karins were aces too.

Wow and the JoJo train is still running. Great stuff.

Did it ever really leave SF though?

 

[robotzombie]

his old form costumes are so much cooler than young

 

[hey_it's_that_dog]

Patently false.

Chun Li

Ryu

Zangief

Vega

Birdie

Alex

Guile

Metro City Stage

Classic Cammy Stage

Classic Ryu Stage

Ryu/Kobu arrangement

SFV has the best fighting game soundtrack in ages.

What about Ken? T_T

When has his theme been better than SFV?

 

[jett]

Too much good music in SFV for one post!

 

[Greenzxy]

SF4's soundtrack is awful from top to bottom though.

Sorry?

I couldn't hear you.

Just more to add to the list
Some people have really faulty memory of what SFIV sounded like

Guy
Makoto
Zangief
Ryu
Cody
Sakura
Dudley
Mad Gear Hide Out
Festival at Old Temple stage

 

[Turbanator]

Street Fighter really used Final Fight lore to establish the origins of Strider. Jesus, how many franchises are now canon to SF?

-Street Fighter (duh)
-Final Fight (multiple characters and overlapping plot points)
-Muscle Bomber/SNSM (canon to FF, cross-references between SF and MB)
-Justice Academy/Rival Schools (recently established by one of SFV's lead artists)
-Strider (Zeku heavily hinted to be founder of the Strider style)
-Vampire/Darkstalkers (not officially canon, but Donovan was (possibly jokingly) referred to as Dan's ancestor in concept art)

SF's practically become Capcom's version of KoF at this point.

So Strider is now officially part of the SF universe.

Can't wait till Dante is also confirmed to be part of the SF universe somehow.

Nah save Dante for Vampire 4. We need SFVI to take place a decade after SFIII so that some random kid named "Rock" can show up in the year 200X.

 

[lucebuce12]

Patently false.
Ryu/Kobu arrangement

SFV has the best fighting game soundtrack in ages.

Didn't even mention F.A.N.G's theme, you might as well hand in your shill card.

 

[Ferrio]

Street Fighter really used Final Fight lore to establish the origins of Strider. Jesus, how many franchises are now canon to SF?

-Street Fighter (duh)
-Final Fight (multiple characters and overlapping plot points)
-Muscle Bomber/SNSM (canon to FF, cross-references between SF and MB)
-Justice Academy/Rival Schools (recently established by one of SFV's lead artists)
-Strider (Zeku heavily hinted to be founder of the Strider style)
-Vampire/Darkstalkers (not officially canon, but Donovan was (possibly jokingly) referred to as Dan's ancestor in concept art)

Tekken counts now doesn't it?

 

[jett]

Didn't even mention F.A.N.G's theme, you might as well hand in your shill card.

We were talking about remixes here breh.

 

[Jawmuncher]

Only good song in SFV is Juri's Theme. Better than her SF4 theme easily.

 

[MrCarter]

Zeku might have the goat theme

Not might sir. He DOES.

 

[lucebuce12]

We were talking about remixes here breh.

And you didn't even mention Juri's theme?

Hand in your shill card.

 

[Turbanator]

Tekken counts now doesn't it?

SF has made no reference to Tekken outside of cute little generic cameos in stages, so no. Not sure if it applies the other way, though.

 

[Ucchedavāda]

Sorry?

I couldn't hear you.

Just more to add to the list
Some people have really faulty memory of what SFIV sounded like

Guy
Makoto
Zangief
Ryu
Cody
Sakura
Dudley
Mad Gear Hide Out
Festival at Old Temple stage

No Poison?
You greatly disappoint me.

 

[Dark Ninja]

Was expecting Zeku to have some bad ass shoes in his nostalgia gear. I guess that's just a Guy thing. I like business suit Yakuza Zeku tho

 

[Turbanator]

You guys are posting like 10 themes from a 60 theme OST and acting like it's hot shit.

I'd have trouble naming 10 themes from SFV that aren't good.

Edit: Also fuck you Jaw.

 

[Marvel]

Only good song in SFV is Juri's Theme. Better than her SF4 theme easily.

Zeku now has best theme tho

 

[TheSpoiler]

SFV has bad music what are some of you on right now

 

[Turbanator]

SFV has bad music what are some of you on right now

.

what are you on right now