Forget The Street Fighter 6 Logo, Let’s Talk About Ryu’s Bulge
The first teaser for Street Fighter 6 dropped today, and all anyone seems to be talking about is the logo. The bland, corporate, clean-cut SF with a small 6 spray stencilled in the corner lacks all the character and personality we associate with Street Fighter. Without the 6, it could be the logo of a tech company that specialises in teaching underprivileged kids about the joys of NFTs. Even with it, it feels like a game desperate to appeal to the esports crowd more than anything else. For now though, I’d like to side-step the logo controversy completely to discuss something much more important - this trailer horny as fuck.
Fighting games have always been a little horny. Titles like Dead or Alive have leaned into it more obviously than others with jiggle physics, but think of any fighting game in existence and three of the most popular characters are Ripped Guy, Evil Guy, and Half-Naked Girl. Even though half the dudes have their shirts off, it’s almost always the women who are oversexualised. Street Fighter 6’s trailer is a literal (more on that later) sausage fest, and that makes just how horny it is far more intriguing.
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It begins like an average fighting game teaser, with close-ups on a fist, bulging bicep, and rippling chest. But the dark atmosphere and the close-up on the sweat goes way beyond just showing that this guy is tough; it’s way too erotic for what it’s trying to show, and ditches the usual tone of a fighting game for something downright sensual. Why is everyone fighting over the logo when Capcom clearly purpose-built a trailer to get us to lust for Ryu?
This is followed by a zoom in on his sweaty, naked feet while his toes squeeze in
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