The legendary pro isn’t too invested in Terry and Mai it seems, however
After nearly 40 years, Street Fighter is finally opening the door to guest characters starting with Terry Bogard and Mai Shiranui from Fatal Fury, and it’s interesting to hear someone’s perspective who’s been competing in those fighting games for basically three decades.
BST|Daigo Umehara recently released a new video where he discusses the upcoming DLC inclusions as well as his wish list for future crossover characters in Street Fighter 6 — though it sounds like he just wants Capcom vs. SNK 3.
Instead of being on his usual stream, this video is in a much more casual setting with food and drinks plus friends to bounce ideas off of, which leads to a ton of laughs from Daigo and the others.
Starting out, Umehara quickly reveals he doesn’t really have much interest in playing Terry and Mai themselves since they were never part of his go-to SNK characters in past games.
Instead, it seems he’s much more keen on what this could mean in the future for getting more guest characters into SF6 while also cracking some jokes about Terry’s moves.
“Well, I was never actually interested in Terry himself, but it’ll be intriguing if they keep adding a variety of characters from the series,” said Daigo. “He has Burn Knuckle and Crack Shoot. Does he really need two different forward thrust attacks? Isn’t one enough? Oh yeah, he also has Power Dunk too.”
As for the SNK fighters he would actually be most interested in, the longtime competitor lists out Geese Howard, Billy Kane, Duck King and Andy Bogard, but then he has a thought.
“Well, surely they’re gonna have to add Iori and Kyo, right?” Daigo ponders.
His friend asks if the pro player is serious to which he responds, “What choice do they have!?”
The other person laughs and states it would just be Capcom vs. SNK all over again if they took things that far.
“What’s wrong with that?” Daigo retorts.
Umehara did compete at a top level in Capcom vs. SNK 2 for a time and scored second place at both Evo and Super Battle Opera in 2003 for the game.
As the discussion goes on, it becomes clear that Daigo would be fine with Street Fighter 6 becoming a pseudo Capcom vs. SNK 3 and thinks other people would be happy with that too.
The friend looks at him like he’s crazy, however, and reminds Daigo that newer fans are already complaining about Terry and Mai or don’t know who they are.
Umehara goes on to list more fighters he’d be interested to see in SF6 including Athena, Shiki, Genjuro, Sieger and Mr. Big, but again his expectations have to be brought back down to reality.
The other person exclaims that Capcom is not going to add sword / katana characters to Street Fighter to which Daigo agrees with at first before bringing up characters like JP and Cody using weapons.
There’s a lot of laughs and jokes brought up throughout the video, which makes it a fun watch, but it ultimately seems like Daigo just wants Capcom vs. SNK 3.
Luckily for him, the developers at both companies seem to be in agreement on that too.
Street Fighter 6’s Producer recently stated the team would like an opportunity to make a new CvS or Marvel vs. Capcom title.
Longtime SNK Producer Yasuyuki Oda also shared similar sentiments about wanting to collaborate with Capcom more in the future as well if Terry and Mai are well received in SF6.
As for Terry himself, the Fatal Fury star should be receiving his gameplay reveal trailer and likely release date today at the Gamescom Opening Night Live event.
We definitely recommend checking out Daigo’s video below for a funnier side to the player since it now has English subtitles included.