Today is the first day of 2024 and this is the first blog of 2024. Last month Sega announced that many of their classic IPs will make a comeback. The two games that got my attention were crazy taxi and eternal champions. Today I am going explain what the new eternal champion needs to be a major hit and have many sequels in the future.
Keep the storyline
Before eternal champions came along, most fighting games really didn’t focus on story. The game needs to keep the original story of the first game while building on the lore.
Keep the individual stages.
One thing that I loved about the earlier street fighter games was that each character have their own individual stage. Like Ryu’s dojo, Cammy’s castle, or E Honda’s bathhouse. Eternal champions had their own individual stages. That needs to return badly. Of course they need to look good. Also the fighters can reaction with the stage like throwing an object at their foe during the fight.
All the originals must be on the starting roster.
All of the fighters from the original must be on the starting roster. You can add fighters from challenges from the dark side like Dawson and Raven if you want but again everyone from the first game must be on the roster to start with.
Have new characters with their own stages on the starting roster.
That is a given.
Have DLC packs.
That is a given too as well.
Let the women be women.
This will tick off some but I don’t care. One of the worst trends in western gaming of late is to make the female characters ugly. From the she beast aka Abby from the last of us part 2, Tanya from MK! that had been hit with the ugly stick a few hundred times, and I can’t leave out MJ from Spider man 2. With her lack of hips, flat ass, flatter chest, the face of a male, and a jaw that can cut through both solid steel and diamonds. Sega you don’t have to make all of the ladies look like supermodels but let all of the women actually look like real women. With hips, ass, and breasts. Of course gave them a face of actually women.
No Mary Sues
If you want Shadow, Jetta, or another woman to be the star or have a major part in the game that is fine. Please don’t make them an overpowered, unlikeable, and straight up bitch.
Treat the men with respect.
Don’t make all the white males sexist, racist, stupid, misogynist pigs like everyone else is doing in entertainment these days. Plus don’t make Blade a victim of white privilege. Treat the men with the same respect you have with the women.
No race, gender, and sexual orientation swap
I want none of this as well. If they want to add a LGBTQ or non-binary fighter to the game, that is great. I have no issues with that.
Keep the violence tamed.
This will be controversial, but I want the violence to stay in check. The two eternal champions games were gruesome back in the day. Let that is tamed compared to today’s standard. Yes the game will be violence with blood, guts splitting out, kills, and rated mature. Let the violence doesn’t need to go as far as the as three MK games. We don’t need to kill someone like three times over. Like freezing someone’s body but their head, uppercut their head off, shattered their body, catch the head, freeze the head, and throw it on the ground to shattered it.
Keep it low key like for example Slash can bash someone skull in with his club or Midknight can drain all of his foe life energy till they turn into dust. You can push the limit a little more far with the stage kills. Like hit someone into the sharp fan or causing on foe to fall into a trap door with a series of blades that with rip them apart only until their bones remain. With the old games to have to delivered the final hit at the right spot. This time after you won just enter a code to activate the stage kill.
No cheap AI
For the last and most important part. I wanted to enjoy the first game but the damn AI sis so cheap I give up to it. Even on the easiest setting the game is next to impossible to beat. I like to challenge but damn it won’t give me a fair chance to win. This is most important issues that must be addressed.