| First and foremost, I love Elena. I am an
avid Elena player. I kick my friends' asses with her on
a regular basis. so when someone released an Elena for
MUGEN, I was intrigued. Most of the SF3 releases thus
far have been... well, less than stellar, so I took it
with a grain of salt.
Nothing could prepare me for the immense level of
SUCK that I was about to experience...
For the rest of this review, the character will be
referred to as "Shaquita" because I refuse to
call this tripe an Elena.
First, the aesthetics. upon loading shaquita, every
thing looks okay.... until she rises and starts dancing
around like a 5-year after drinking a gallon of Kool-aid.
while I'm on the stance, let me get this off my chest. THE
stance moves! It's not a hard thing to do. Just
a few posadds and it's all done. but nooooo, the crea...no,
molester realigned the sprites in the sff. I have to
give him his props though. Not everyone can misalign
perfectly aligned sprites and align them perfectly,
however, he does it.
now, the sound. It's your basic SF3 sound effects.
Not a bad thing, right? Until you realize that all
the voice clips are in the wrong places! Come on,
now. you could at least have read an faq and put 2 and 2
together, but instead shaquita's yelling "Rhino
horn" during scratch wheel and other equally jacked
up mismatches. Hell, the only clip he got right was
"healing".
And finally, the gameplay. It is perfectly clear that
Phirmost has never played elena in his life! absolutely
nothing works as it should. It's a beta (52% complete...
BULLSHIT!), so all the moves aren't in yet, but
what is in, you'll wish he left out. you'll have to get
adjusted to the controls because nearly every command
has changed. Most moves do waaaay too much damage, about
the same as the supers. don't even get me started on the
supers! the healing super is completely invincible and
for some stupid reason she fucking vanishes during the
move only leaving her aura. The other super... I'm not
even sure what it's supposed to be. As the final nail in
the coffin, phirmost has found it fit to give Shaquita MVC
ESTILIO! yes, my niggas, shaquita has a fucking
launcher and air combos. I should note
that this character works best on DOS MUGEN, but it
fucking blows no matter what platform you're using.
Well, not much else to say. my suggestion is
play the fucking game first, get a feel for how she's
supposed to play, then if you want to add some extra
stuff in, do so. But get the basics down first!
Or you can never touch a SF3 character again. I vote
for the second choice.
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