street fighter
Street Fighter is a fighting game series published by Capcom. The first game was an arcade title published in 1987. In 1989, a sister game called Final Fight was released, and the Final Fight team would then go on to develop Street Fighter II, which came out in 1991. These three games would be the beginning of one of the most well-known fighting game franchises of all time.
N story
Street Fighter is kind of about two things: a bunch of people who all want to be the strongest guy in the world, and the shadow illuminati going for world domination via shenanigans like cloning people and genetically engineering God. Actually, that's a lie. We got Shadaloo and the Illuminati, which is to say two separate criminal organizations that exist for basically the exact same purpose. I would like to say that there is an easy-to-follow timeline that neatly involves all of these factors, but there isn't. In my opinion, that's kind of the best thing about it, actually. Some of the fighters are there specifically to hunt down the deep state psychic terrorists. Others just want everyone in the world to know how cool sumo is. Sometimes those streams get crossed and we get sumo wrestlers hunting down the deep state psychic terrorists. Don't worry about it.
N main characters
There are a lot of characters in this series, and a lot of them are important to the "plot". As much as I would love to write out a little bio for everyone, that would mean I would have to write 200 variations of "he is a blond American man who likes justice". I would also have to explain to you who Nash is, and nobody wants that. Here are a small handful of the most relevant ones, just to keep you in the loop.Click images to learn more. Links open in new tab.
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Ryu
First Game: Street Fighter (1987) Ryu is a karate man and the original "main character", so to speak, of the Street Fighter franchise. He is loosely tied to every plot thread they've introduced, which means that, in a Barbie-esque sense, he's done it all, babey. He has mastered his craft, travelled around the world, overturned numerous wicked folk, probably killed several people, and grown a sweet beard. He is supposed to be this cool, Bruce Lee-type figure that's fleshed out enough to participate in the various plots, but still vague enough for kids of the late 80s and early 90s to project themselves onto. |
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Ken Masters
First Game: Street Fighter (1987) Ken is Ryu's friend and rival, and the other main guy from the first game. Unlike Ryu, Ken is a goofy American. This means that he's allowed to do Goofy American Things, like ruining his life and losing all of his money in crypto. (Yes, this is canon!) He is the most popular character in SF6 right now and boy am I ever getting tired of fighting him. Ken is the character you pick when your go-to Mario Kart choice is Luigi. He is an okay dude, maybe! |
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Chun-Li
First Game: Street Fighter II (1991) Chun-Li was the first playable woman and holds the title of "Strongest Woman in the World". She is a kung-fu master and also an Interpol agent, because M. Bison, head of Shadaloo, killed her father. Why'd he do that? Doesn't matter; as of SF6, Chun-Li has adopted a kid and taken a sabbatical from Interpol to be a kung-fu teacher, which is pretty cool of her. What you really need to know is that she kicks people and seems very nice. |
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Cammy White
First Game: Super Street Fighter II (1993) If you thought Chun-Li's concept was a bit convoluted, you ain't seen NOTHIN yet, hunnie. So, Cammy is a clone assassin created by Shadaloo. Sometimes she's actually not, and she's an operative from something called Delta Red who got brainwashed into becoming a clone assassin, which isn't how clones work, but whatever. Anyway, now she's an M16 op for the Brits. Cammy likes cats and suffers from a 24/7 tension headache, partly from her immense trauma and partly from trying to sort out what her backstory is actually meant to be. People like her because she's a badass hottie, which - I mean, fair enough, you go, girl. |
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M. Bison
First Game: Street Fighter II (1991); playable in SFII: Champion Edition (1992) Bison was introduced as a boss in SFII, but didn't become playable until SFII: Champion Edition came out a year later. He is the main villain in that very 80s way, wherein you ask him what his villainy entails and he answers "Yes." He uses dark psychic brain tricks to, like, sell drugs and overthrow world governments and whatnot - you know, villain shit. If nothing else, he is incredibly iconic. He's also probably dead again, but I don't think anyone out there genuinely and earnestly believes that; we'll probably see him back in SF6 at some point or another. |
N my characters
In Street Fighter 6, my favourite characters are Jamie, Dhalsim, and Rashid. You can consider me a Jamie main.I thought I didn't really have a particular archetype that I lean towards, but, hmm...after seeing all three of their headshots together, I think my thing is dudes with a lot of gold in their promotional art. Perhaps this will also influence my future favourites, as well.
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And finally, here's a picture of my favourite stage - I hope it comes back, too! This stage is called Kapukon Yu, or Honda's Sento, or Honda's Bath House. It was in Street Fighter II and Street Fighter V, and has been seen from the outside lots of other times in the series.
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