GreenZed said, April 30, 2022, 02:59:11 am

4. No Heat Haze for Ingrid? How could you? There's even an instrumental version, if you don't like it's lyrics.

Man of culture.

I've tried playing the game proper and have some thoughts and feedback to share, but please do keep in mind, that I am not a good FG playa:

1. Divison between powerbar sections should be visible, even if it's empty, so the player knows exactly when they get lvl 1
2. Sagat's AI is just atrocious, there is no putting it lightly. The entire match devolves into a fireball throwing competition: who can outspam whom. Characters like Dan gets completely bodied, while as Akuma I barely lost any life.
3. You should consider custom personal winquotes for every character, like in CvTW. It will increase replay value.
4. No Heat Haze for Ingrid? How could you? There's even an instrumental version, if you don't like it's lyrics.
5. Very subjective, but I would propose removing cheap KO's like SFV did.
6. Not Race, nor you catched that eardrum piercing Batsu WinPose screech. Ouch.
7. Not exactly sure, what caused this, but this happened when Retsu tried his chargin super on me
8. Credits have some sort of black bar on the right, which is notiecable when long names scroll by.
9. Another subjective thought: I think pacing of the fight would improve, if those prologed multi-hit throws from Alpha cast would be shorten, the way SF4 did.

Pretty damn fun overall. You've gained a follower. I'll be closley following this project now. Maybe at least one modern Capcom-based Mugen fullgame will make it to the finish line.

Dan's stage should have the same camera settings as the other stages, I actually got thrown off pretty bad when I fought Dan, lol.

Feedback and thoughts addendum:

1. Ingrid has the same issue with palettes as Dan.
2. I'm a bit out of touch on Ingrid's gameplan, but Sun Delta doesn't KO the opponent.
3. Training Stage could use some music.
4. Character selection menu in simul and turns has overlapping text and it looks awful as hell.
5. On topic of AI: Batsu is the worst. Blocks almost everything, but the most annoying part, is that he either almost always techs your grabs or grab you before you do. Irritating.
6. It appears, that Charlie is using his Cannon Spike-esque attire with a shirt on. You might want to swap his character portrait to that from said game.

Also, is there any reason, why you didn't go with Akuma's sprites from original DW version?

DeathScythe said, April 30, 2022, 03:41:26 am

GreenZed said, April 30, 2022, 02:59:11 am

4. No Heat Haze for Ingrid? How could you? There's even an instrumental version, if you don't like it's lyrics.

Man of culture.

EDIT:More stuff
7. No one is credited in the text file for Retsu.
8. I would suggest making a temporary arcade ending: an image with snippets of things to come for this game, like it was done in CvTW.
Speaking of which: if you need English VA for Alpha Charlie - he has a custom one in CvTW.

RagingRowen said, April 30, 2022, 09:27:45 am

8. I personally think that would work better for an after-credits scene.

I know, that Marvel movies trained people to sit through the whole credits sequence, but I have my doubts, that people playing this game would have the patience for that or even knowledge, that there is something after them.

I have a few more random thoughts, if you don't mind:

If you ever going to use Oni with Lessard's sprites or someone elses, this stage by NoZ would be a great fit for him.

In my very personal opinion, I would prefer, if you would push back the remaining SF shotos like Gouken, Sakura, Sean and various evil and dark versions of existing ones back and focus on other fighters. The remaining Ansatsuken practitioners and their proteges should be introduced gradually, like in SFV. I very much like the inclusion of more unusual picks for the series (Haggar, Batsu, Ingrid) and would've loved, if you kept going in that direction, bringing some new faces, that were never used, haven't been seen in the main series for awhile or never had an apperance in a sprite form. Additions like that will help this game to create a fresh identity and a unique face, that will set it apart from the rest.

You've mentioned character dialogue as a possible future addition and that would be really great. Ryu in CvTW had something like that (but only with handful of characters, mostly on The World side), you can probably check him out for code and references.

PS: This is just the artist in me but Retsu and Batsu really need some extra care in the sprite department, they have some pretty off looking animations compared to the rest of the cast. Cool inclusions though. I have a 99% complete mostly unused spriteset of Joe that would fit right into this game I think.

- You disabled debug mode but not the debug keys (you can just F1 through arcade mode)