Super Street Fighter 4’s head honcho, Yoshinori Ono, is a busy guy. Between the upcoming Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition and Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition, Ono is spending almost as much time on remakes as Hollywood (bazing!). Yet when he talks, people listen, largely in part because he is a notorious tease. Take the latest post from his Twitter page, for example:
“SSF IV AE will get Gold master just a bit more! All I can do is wait for approval.AEwill running in Mid of Dec!
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Also included with the post is a lovely picture, featuring what appears to be a yet-to-be-announced new character:
It’s tough to tell who it might be, considering (s)he is being burned to a crisp by Dhalsim at the moment, but they appear to be wearing a thong. Pulling from the canon of Street Fighter, that leaves us with one of two primary candidates:
- Elena
2. Urien
As much as I might desperately wish for the person getting toasted to be Elena, given my long standing desire to have her in the game, the smart money is on Urien, at least given what we can see in the image provided. Don’t believe me? Check out the video below, when Urien does a crouching block at the 0:14 mark:
Quite similar, don’t you think?
Fans of Elena (or any other Street Fighter character who’s not already on SSFIV’s considerable roster, for that matter) should take heart, however. It seems highly probable that the Arcade Edition of the game has at least one other new character lurking in the shadows, and rest assured that The Idle has will keep his eyes and ears open as details continue to surface.