Yeah, basically a mix of new and old characters. For example, Stella, who looks like Sarah Bryant, seems to be a new character. Possibly Sarah Bryant's daughter... or even Jacky's daughter? Cielo is also a new character. In some shots you can see an old Wolf Hawkfield.
There's a theory that Stella is a brainwashed Sarah, done so by the J6 organization. Dunno how likely that is; I am not acclimated with the VF lore, particularly since most of it is in supplementary material and not the actual games :/.
The game was announced at The Game Awards, so Summer Game Fest seems like the likelier bet? If they had a marketing partnership with a platform holder surely it would've included the announcement too.
Would probably be the most likely. Relatively neutral, and most people know the FGC is on PS5 & PC.
Looks gorgeous.
Yea, very likely for the Xbox June Showcase. It's safe to say Xbox has marketing deals for all Sega games.
Highly unlikely. Someone else already said the game got revealed at one of Geoff's shows, probably for a reason: SEGA don't want to anchor a VF comeback by console partisanship.
And in this case, especially not Xbox, given vast majority of the FGC is on PS5 & PC, and it'd be extremely risky to push Western marketing for a revival of an IP that's struggled to make it big in the West, on a platform that's basically dead in sales and dead for the FGC.
Then again, SEGA have done stupider things so anything's up in the air.
Hopefully they got yakuza characters in it
If they do that I hope they keep them to super-hidden guest appearances, or just as costume variants for the established cast. Or, as special seasonal guests.
I was never a fan of the 3 button Guard Punch Kick layout, but I have to admit the graphics and animations are outstanding. RGG's graphics team is really impressing me.
Great idea tbh.
If Sega throws Kiryu and Majima into the base game, they'll sell a lot more copies. Gimme Yagami from Judgment too. They could even put some Streets of Rage characters as DLC.
Just keep their move set grounded in VF realism.
That could work. Not throwing Kiryu & Majima in the base game, but having them as DLC guest characters or costumes for existing cast members.
At the end of the day I still want a VF that's a VF, not a Yakuza dressed in VF skin.