Long story short: Capcom unveils a new character named Decapre for Ultra Street Fighter IV. Decapre joins former Street Fighter/Capcom veterans Rolento, Elena, Hugo and Poison when the expansion releases.
The knee-jerk reaction that seems to be prevalent is that Decapre isn’t really a new character, but a weak-effort palette swap/modification of Cammy. Obviously, the parallel is not difficult to see as she is pretty much Cammy with a mask on, and no amount of sugar-coating and bullshit-flinging can change that, but it is funny to see and read how people are trying to defend it.
The bottom line is that I have to side with those that feel that Decapre is more or less a copout by Capcom in trying to declare her a new character. Tell me all about her mask, her Russian ethnicity instead of English, how her bracers have claws in them, and how her attacks are charge-based and not directional, when the day is over, when the sprite’s back is turned to the screen (which I imagine it will be, since it’s pretty much Cammy’s ass), nobody will be able to tell the difference between Decapre and Cammy.
