Street Fighter V may have bombed at retail, but Ibuki's here to make sure that it bombs in-game, too. The unstoppable schoolgirl is set to join the PlayStation 4 exclusive's roster imminently, and she's armed with explosives, throwing knives, and… A parachute. The trailer above demonstrates just how fun this new challenger can be – we especially like the way that she can lob mines mid-combo and time her moves to use them as a devastating finisher.
The fresh-faced ninja is the third character to be added to Capcom's brawler, with Alex and Guile both already available. Despite criticisms pointed at the quantity of content available in the fighting game at launch, June is set to see the fighter augmented with another major update, including its long-awaited story mode, which will supposedly add over an hour of cinematic content to the release. Here's hoping for some kind of arcade option, too!
[source youtube.com]
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Great to see more characters coming to SFV.
Cool, don't like her new outfit though.
@shonenjump86
She doesn't look bad,....but both her and Alex looked better in their SF3 guise.
"over an hour" of cinematic content does not sound like much
@sub12
Agreed
Unless she is available today or tomorrow there goes your monthly character schedule.
More SF3 goodness is always welcome though.
That mouse cursor at 48 seconds really bugs me.
I love playing as Ibuki! I'm not seeing her signature new snapping move in the trailer tough!
@JoeBlogs I mean would a machine gun really be that much over the line when there are characters that that throw balls of energy at people? I mean it's already pretty far and away from being exclusively hand to hand.
@JoeBlogs I hardly see how shooting fireballs out of your hands is fair and not a weapon. I mean it would seem pretty crummy to say to a person with a smouldering hole in their chest from a hadoken that because it took years to perfect it's perfectly fair. In that circumstance having a gun might even the odds... But still fireballs and kamehamehas aren't hand to hand... I don't know where I'm going with this comment I'm super bored. Don't even read it ;it's tripe and I'm just rambling.
@JoeBlogs What if you went to another dimension and the you there was already a director of the Street Fighter tournaments? I imagine a Highlander situation there.
@JoeBlogs That made me literally laugh at loud. Good joke. That worked on every level.
@DualWielding FFVII only has about 3 hours of cinematics and that's a 70 hour long, incredibly story-focused RPG.
@sub12 I wonder if that's down to taking 2D sprites and making them 3D. I remember I didn't like how Dhalsim looked in SFIV but felt they got him spot on in V.
@JoeBlogs Thanks! Haha!
@JoeBlogs "I just prefer Street Fighter as being about some pretty badass dudes and gals who can do some amazing magical things with their bodies in the art of fighting":
I agree 100%. Classic Street Fighter were all about physical techniques and magic, and I prefer that.
I just recently got around to playing SFV and I have to say, it's appalling how little content actually shipped with the game! I'm not saying we need a roster the size of Ultra Street Fighter IV right out the gate, but we needed a proper arcade mode for those of us who can't play online, and definitely more characters than this (especially characters who've been in pretty much every game!)
@adf86
With Ibuki it just looks like they are going for a mid-ground between ninjutsu Ibuki and school girl Ibuki.
Alex, no offense, I dunno, he doesn't look bad, but he doesn't look nearly as cool as the SF3 Alex (the red shoulder scars did a lot in SF3, and the suspenders and green pants take away in 5).
Sold it last month, I'll rebuy when it has content.
@Azikira
The roster was never a sore spot, the core 18 in SF5 are extremely solid (well, I don't care for Fang and Rashid, but still, that's just my opinion, everybody else is great......).
You can have a smallish roster and build a lot of content around that, look at Guilty Gear Xrd, they did it right.
@sub12 None taken, I like how he looks in V but I did have reservations. Still prefer his 3rd strike look.
I haven't checked yet but according to the description on the trailer for PlayStation 's YouTube channel, Ibuki is available now.
Haven't played this game in 5 weeks, the fact you have to play the game a exorbitant amount of time just to get guile and his stage is ridiculous street fighter 5 is boring as phuck. Complete rip off.
@sub12 i'v never seen alex wear "suspenders" what kind of sordid fantasy world do you live in? Lol. Who do you think he is Eddie izzard?
@Bazza78
Yeah, he has like red suspenders for his overly green pants. Dunno what your talking about....? Maybe it's a British thing (not trying to be rude).
@sub12 lol sorry bro, it's just that suspenders makes me think of of a lady in stockings.
@sub12 "I'm not saying we need a roster the size of Ultra Street Fighter IV right out the gate". I'm mostly saying the game needs some single-player, offline content. Not just Story mode, but a good ol' arcade mode! Plus VS Computers is pretty important too. The roster is a little underwhelming coming from such a large roster entry, but I know more characters will eventually be made as DLC which is why I specified "right out of the gate", because you know as well as I that a nice chunk of characters are going to find their way to the game later on.
@Azikira @adf86
She will be released alongside the June story update.
I agree with you Azikira....
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