{"id":40713,"date":"2015-07-13T17:17:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T21:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40713"},"modified":"2020-07-16T17:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T21:18:00","slug":"what-the-hell-is-ken-wearing-in-street-fighter-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40713","title":{"rendered":"What the hell is Ken wearing in Street Fighter V?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-40714 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/sfv_ken-e1436621138104.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/sfv_ken-e1436621138104.jpg 490w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/sfv_ken-e1436621138104-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/street-fighter-5-character-roster-adds-ken-masters\/1100-6428769\/\">Impetus<\/a>: Street Fighter V trailer reveals availability of iconic character, Ken.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Knee-jerk reactions:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Street Fighter V has now caught up to the animated series\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Street_Fighter_II_V\"><em>Street Fighter II: V<\/em><\/a>, which was known primarily as \u201c<em>Street Fighter V<\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Video shows a severe dearth of\u00a0<em>Dragon Punch<\/em>es, the move that Ken excelled at over than any of the other\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/img06.deviantart.net\/50fb\/i\/2015\/119\/d\/8\/shotoclones_sf___jus___jss_by_theguy07-d3jsvm9.png\">Shotaclones<\/a>, but a boatload of\u00a0<em>Hurricane Kicks<\/em>, the move that Ryu supposedly got the favor of<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">What the hell is Ken wearing???<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">At this point, gameplay doesn\u2019t really matter to me.\u00a0 I\u2019m so far removed from the fighting game scene, that all I am is a nostalgic bystander who reminisces about how good I used to be at\u00a0<em>Street Fighter Alpha<\/em>, and anything prior.\u00a0 Seriously, I\u2019ve played my copy of SFIV like, twice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">However, that doesn\u2019t mean that I can\u2019t make snap judgments and make social commentary about the property that I\u2019m still somewhat interested in, from a plot standpoint.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">That being said, my mind is trying to figure out just what the hell Capcom did to Ken from an aesthetic standpoint.\u00a0 As we can very well see (above), Ryu is still allowed to be wearing his traditional white gi, carrying forward the general tradition that Ryu is basically homeless, and the implication is that the white gi is literally all he owns, probably smells putrid, and has to be thinner than paper, to have literally been wearing the same thing for over two decades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Considering Ken has been portrayed in the contrasting red gi to Ryu\u2019s white, I\u2019m curious to why Capcom has not decided to hold true to this standard?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I get that throughout the history of the game, there\u2019s always been attempts to \u201cmake different\u201d Ryu and Ken, and I figured subtle game change differences were fairly sufficient enough, as well as a different variety of palette swaps, but ultimately, they\u2019ve always been the two dudes in gis that are basically the same sprite with different heads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But this?\u00a0 Too radical, and I can\u2019t say that I\u2019m a fan of it.\u00a0 Honestly, actually, it appears that Ken\u00a0<em>is<\/em>\u00a0still wearing his traditional red gi, but that it\u2019s for lack of a better term, underneath an UnderArmour shirt.\u00a0 Why Capcom\u2019s artists feel the need to clad Ken in an UnderArmour shirt in the first place is beyond me; knowing the money-grubbing ways of Capcom, perhaps there\u2019s actually a sponsorship involved with UnderArmour, and cladding the game\u2019s most popular (or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/static.gamesradar.com\/images\/mb\/GamesRadar\/us\/Features\/2009\/03\/Week%20of%20Hate%202009\/10%20reasons%20to%20hate%20everything\/Screens\/Kens--article_image.jpg\">frequently used<\/a>) in their apparel is a great way to market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Or keeping on the money-grubbing tangent, the game will have \u201cplain\u201d red gi Ken as a customizable outfit, but naturally, it will be DLC that players will have to pay $5 dollars for, despite the fact that it will undoubtedly\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5202917\/rumor-resident-evil-5s-versus-mode-was-yes-on-the-disc-all-along\">already be on the disc<\/a>\u00a0at launch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Anyway though, I think it looks stupid.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure the creative brief behind this design is the implications that Ken Masters is rich and successful, the lifestyle opposite of his life partner Ryu, and that he can afford to put an UnderArmour shirt on over his gi, or that wearing a tight-fitting shirt accentuates his musculature or something like that, but the bottom line is that it looks like rubbish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">All I can think of is that putting on a form-fitting shirt is basically the equivalent of the former\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwe.com\/f\/styles\/superstar_bio\/public\/talent\/bio\/2013\/05\/MVP_bio.png\">WWE wrestler MVP<\/a>, who was notorious for wrestling in a stupid looking get-up, allegedly because he was not in as great shape as he wanted to be in, and the full-covering singlet of his kind of hid his mediocre physique.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Does Ken have a mediocre physique, needing to be hidden behind UnderArmour?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">He does now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Secondly, because he\u2019s wearing a form-fitting UnderArmour shirt, it makes the part of the gi that is exposed, flap around like excess baggage.\u00a0 It\u2019s like a cape for his ass, flapping around arbitrarily, like a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.polyvore.com\/cgi\/img-thing?.out=jpg&amp;size=l&amp;tid=39759131\">Jeff Hardy snot rag<\/a>\u00a0or something.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">It would be kind of awesome, if the game completely ditched Shotokan for Ken\u2019s fighting discipline and incorporated some\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N-sUkqBJ1sQ\">no-shadow kick skirt kung-fu<\/a>\u00a0to make use of the gi flapping around.\u00a0 Like fireball+K becomes a flick of the skirt that gets the opponent to react early, setting themselves up for a mean kick combo (<a href=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40686\">for 280 hits<\/a>).\u00a0 I mean, who needs hadokens and shoryukens when you can fight with your skirt?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">And subsequently, the skirt could be a detriment as well, since naturally Ken has to be OP, because he always is, and needs something to bring him back to balance.\u00a0 But like, Zangief, or Abel, or any other guy who is throw-reliant can grab onto the flapping skirt, and use it to drag Ken to themselves for a Spinning Piledriver, or any other throw-super.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">The bottom line is that I\u2019m quite perplexed on the artistic direction of Ken going into SFV.\u00a0 I don\u2019t understand the perceived logic, and frankly I am not a fan of how it\u2019s looking.\u00a0 As guys get older, they should start giving less fucks about their appearance, and develop a chip on their shoulder or something, to prove that they can still hang with the times, and not be usurped by youth.\u00a0 Not putting on an UnderArmour shirt to hide their aging physiques and inflate the appearance of their muscles.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impetus: Street Fighter V trailer reveals availability of iconic character, Ken. Knee-jerk reactions: Street Fighter V has now caught up to the animated series\u00a0Street Fighter II: V, which was known primarily as \u201cStreet Fighter V.\u201d Video shows a severe dearth of\u00a0Dragon Punches, the move that Ken excelled at over than any of the other\u00a0Shotaclones, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40713\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What the hell is Ken wearing in Street Fighter V?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,15,19,49],"class_list":["post-40713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-observations","tag-og","tag-video-games","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40715,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40713\/revisions\/40715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}