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Gonna be real with you, I was not expecting us to add him this soon. Yeah, another great pick! I love the **** outta Streets of Rage and it got completely shafted in the All-Stars games and it's a perfect pick for a fighting game, Axel just works and I'm also glad he's here Iconic SEGA mascot and overall lovely little fella. Then we did the decade votes, starting off with Opa-Opa.And yeah, I definitely feel like she was one of the better picks for VF as well! At the same time, we also added Sarah Bryant.Eggman, which yeah I don't think I need to explain why that's a good pick. Then we started delving into additional reps for the first time, and we started off with Dr.Wasn't expecting us to add her so soon, but I sure as hell don't mind it Ulala is another really good one! Cool classic character, SEGA love to acknowledge Space Channel 5's existence, and she's just fun.So seeing that we added her, like, immediately was.reassuring, I'll admit. A big part of the worry was imagining the scenario in which we passed up important characters like Sakura in favor of, like, ****innnnn Vectorman or something. True story, when we were still covering the starting 4, I was still worried that this project would be influenced too much by the Surface-Level Perspective and we'd end up with yet another by-the-numbers roster that puts too much emphasis on scrimblos and basic crossover picks. I mean, yeah! It's a good pick! It makes perfect sense! Not much else to say.
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But whatever, when all's said and done, I like him, he's still a good pick, I still would have added him myself, I just don't agree with when we added him Now, Alex here is in an interesting situation cause while I do think he's a good addition, I can't help but feel like we added him a bit.too early? Like yes, he is a noteworthy classic character, he helps represent the Master System, I myself would have still added him if I was 100% in charge of this roster.but I look at the lineup that first job had and I can't help but feel like he kinda got to cut the line just cause he was the SEGA mascot before Sonic, and this really kinda exemplifies a problem I have, in that I feel like people have a tendency to put Alex on too high a pedestal compared to other SEGA characters simply for that aspect of him. After that, we move on to the rest of this roster, being the characters that were actually voted in.It's a very important franchise to SEGA's history, and even though there are other non-Sonic franchises that are more successful than VF, I felt like Akira was really that perfect of an inclusion and as such, I felt like he worked really well as the other lock. in addition to that, VF is genuinely, like, huge. It does feel a bit weird to comment on his inclusion cause, well, I was the one who added him, but I really did feel like he warranted being the other "lock", for simply two things: 1. After that, we have Akira Yuki, who was our other locked-in-from-the-start pick.There is nothing more to say about Sonic. I'll actually be going over each character individually cause I simply thought that'd be fun I'll also be dropping my own take in a bitĪight, I'll say my piece on this roster too. I'm happy to see we've come this far - reaching the halfway mark is an achievement considering how many of these threads die out early on - and so I'd just like to see how all of you feel about the current state of our roster. What inclusions do you like? What inclusions do you not like, if any? In what direction do you think we should take our roster from now on? Is there anything you feel we need to flesh out a bit? That kinda stuff. So we're gonna sit here and simply talk about how we think our roster is looking so far. So yeah, we're now halfway through, and as I just said, I think it's time we do a lil retrospective. How do you think our roster is shaping up so far? And I think a milestone like that warrants a moment to sit down and look back:ĭiscussion #5: We've reached the halfway point. Now then, Nei is the 18th character in this 35-character roster, which means that with her inclusion, we are now officially halfway through the base roster. But in the end, we have a winner: and I am extremely pleased to announce that the next fighter to be added to Battle of AGES will be Nei!!!!! Some of the candidates put up a good fight. This round was actually closer-fought than I expected.