From what we’ve seen so far, Capcom seems to be knocking it out of the park when it comes to converting SNK’s Terry Bogard over to Street Fighter 6 as their first-ever guest character with tons of references and callbacks found in his gameplay.
The love for Fatal Fury even goes so far as to show up when the Wild Wolf is in one of his weakest states in SF6.
Now that we’ve received full match footage of Terry in action, fans are obviously combing through every little detail that wasn’t present in his initial trailer where they’ve found quite a few things of interest.
There’s the fact that Capcom went so far as to give Terry different animations depending on his outfit, and he’s got more subtle details that are hard to spot at first glance.
When he’s in Burnout, for example, Mr. Bogard apparently flashes back to 1991 considering his fighting stance changes to what he used to do in the original Fatal Fury.
Normally, Terry’s idle animation is close to how it appears in more modern games like The King of Fighters 15 with his right arm held up tight while the left hangs down in a more loose fashion.
When he goes into burnout, Terry’s idle stance in Street Fighter 6 turns into his old idle stance from Fatal Fury 1!
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— Emezie Okorafor (@emezie) August 26, 2024
In Burnout, however, he tightens up the stance like he used to back in the day.
This isn’t the most surprising thing in the world since most other SF6 characters similarly revert back to their Street Fighter 2 idle animations in Burnout if they existed back then like Ryu, Chun-Li, Cammy and the rest.
It is really cool, though, to see that this same level of attention is being paid to their honored guest as well and fits right in since it’s from the same era.
Now, we’ll have to see if they gave Terry any special interactions with Ken like we had back in the Capcom vs. SNK days.
Heck, Capcom already hit us with multiple Street Fighter 2 and Fatal Fury references in just the opening seconds of his trailer.
They’ll hopefully pack a lot into his World Tour appearance too since we’ve already seen Andy, Joe and Blue Mary hanging around his intros / stage.
On top of the new DLC character, Capcom is going to also add in some new features for SF6 that players should appreciate including replay takeover and special AI training partners.
Terry is slated to release on September 24, and we’ll be seeing even more out of him in the coming days and weeks until then too.