| For once, I managed to download a character at random that's actually somewhat good. Amazing, I know. I'm almost certain this Cobra guy is based on an old anime character, which is cool with me. And he has a gun arm. That's also cool.
The sprites, for the most part, are pretty decent. There are a few sprites that look a bit odd, but the animations are usually quite good, if a bit slow. Most of the moves could have been greatly improved if the animations were sped up a bit, especially his beam special. The beam stays out for something like 2.5 seconds, and the opponent often recovers long before it's over, which ain't good. But I've seen a lot worse looking semi-original characters. Plus, that throw animation kicks ass.
The character has no sound, which is annoying, as most of these moves need some nice, loud beam and THWACK sounds. But I'm sure the creators can dig up some of those easily.
Gameplay wise, Cobra's pretty decent. He's got a few of the typical special moves - beams, uppercuts, dives - but as I mentioned earlier, the animations for most are too slow. They'd be greatly improved by a bit of tweaking. The beam special can usually either be air recovered out of early if hit by the heavy version, and the light one will usually leave you standing anyway. The QCB+Punch move has ENTIRELY too long a hitpause. And the multi-hit crouching heavy punch looks awkward. But I've played a hell of a lot worse.
Although he's fairly buggy now, if Butchy and Mike Werewolf work on him some more and tweak him, I think Cobra will be a fine character. Go ahead and check him out if you like. You could pick a lot worse characters to try.
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