The Porcelain Idle

Ladies and gentleman, prepare to be underwhelmed!  The just-released trailer for the Arcade Edition of Super Street Fighter 4 reveals a number of the arcade game’s unique features (in Japanese), and ends with an image of Shin Akuma and Evil Ryu, a couple of well-known boss characters from Street Fighter history.  The trailer shows no actual gameplay, nor is it clear at this time if these characters are indeed playable or “boss only” (although the smart money would be on these characters being unplayable, or at least unplayable in a two-player versus match, given the game’s widespread popularity in tournaments and the difficulty in making two hidden boss characters balanced for a tournament environment).

I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if there were more surprises in store even after the game is released later this month in Japanese arcades, so stay tuned, as always.

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You know what I don’t like?  Being wrong.  But it happens, and when it does, there’s only one thing to do.  Admit it, and then deny that you said anything about it if anyone mentions it in the future. 

What am I admitting to/future denying this time?  The rumor that had made its way around the internet (and this blog) that a so-called “mystery character” was shown in this picture involving Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition:

Turns out, it’s just good ol’ Chun-Li, as pointed out by the fine folks at Shoryuken, and evidenced by the following:

So much for that one.  For the record, I still think there’ll be more characters added to the game, but time will bear out whether such speculation is indeed fact.

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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! ”

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:

1. 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.

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