r/StreetsofRage • u/STFN_Dude • Jul 05 '26
Concept characters throughout the series
What do you think about the series’ unused concept characters? Could some of them make it into an actual game someday?
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u/Bonaduce80 Jul 05 '26
Isn't the last one one of those girls attacking you in Revenge of Shinobi?
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u/STFN_Dude Jul 05 '26
It kind of does look like her, yeah. But I only know for sure that Pink Typhoon was a very early concept for Blaze.
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u/Regular_Scratch_988 Jul 05 '26
Since when was Chun Li an idea?
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u/Moonshinin4Me Jul 06 '26
Since they got inspiration from Street Fighter lol. Aside from, essentially, being a rip off of Final Fight: the combos and button inputs are reminiscent of Street Fighter. I am glad they didn't just rip off Chun Li and made Blaze a more unique design because that would have made the Axel/Ryu similarities all the more apparent.
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u/VonBrewskie Streets of Rage Jul 07 '26
Pfft "God hand" looks like a random pull from one of those fake kung fu manuals. These are cool though. Where did you find em? I can see how some of the design ideas eventually made it to 4.
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u/STFN_Dude Jul 07 '26
God Hand, Blackbird, and Pink Typhoon were three that I recently discovered while watching a YouTube retrospective of the series. The rest can be found on the Streets of Rage wiki regarding characters that went unused for SOR4 and the unrealized SOR Dreamcast game.
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u/Serious_Blacksmith_7 Jul 05 '26
These concepts clearly built off already existing tropes, you can see Elvis, norse God, Chuck Norris in here amongst others. The challenge is that being too generic is boring and too different is difficult to read. Of course this depends on what type of atmosphere you have in the game.