Forum:Street Fighter Guest Characters for Fighting EX Layer

I bought and downloaded Fighting EX Layer a few weeks back and am impressed so far (even with the lack of content as of this post). Some people on a few Youtube channels speculated in the past if Capcom would offer one of their Street Fighter as a guest character and while Capcom has said nothing about doing such a thing, I thought I'd offer my own thoughts as to which ones I'd like to see as a guest fighter on Arika's FEXL.

1. Obvious Choices: Either Ryu, Ken Masters, Chun-li, or Akuma. Admittedly these would be the most likely to be a guest fighter in FEXL due to them being mascots to varying degrees for Street Fighter. Though Ryu, Chun-li, and Akuma already being guest characters in other games and/or Capcom crossover might limit their ability out of concern of them being overexposed to an extent, Ken could avoid that potential stigma and also allow him a chance to stand out instead of simply being the rival to Ryu. The fact that Ken had some history with Allen Snider in the SFEX games could also be a nice bonus for certain character interactions.

2. Street Fighter V Newcomers: Capcom could use such an opportunity to promote this newest Street Fighter title by having one of their newcomers gain some prominence. If I had to choose one the newcomers to be guest for FEXL, I'd say mine would be Rashid, with Laura Matsuda and Ed as a close second and third respectively. Rashid being the de facto protagonist of sorts for the Story mode is why I'd think he'd make the best choice.

3. M. Bison: The SFEX games introduced duplicates of Bison, named Shin Bison and Bison II. If he was a guest fighter, it'd be entertaining to see what traits of those duplicate characters they'd use for a FEXL iteration of Bison.

4. Seth: While it isn't impossible for the Cycloids being characters in FEXL, as Arika hasn't explicitly dismissed them as of yet, but it's safe to say it's highly unlikely they'll reappearing. However, if Seth, who has some amusing similarities with the Cycloids, were allowed to be a guest fighter Arika could give him at least a few elements of their playstyles as a way to indirectly bring them back. Granted, Seth's lack of popularity would probably hinder this possiblity, but it would be entertaining IMO at least to kind of reunite all of the SFEX original characters in one way or another.

5. Zangief: A somewhat out of the blue choice, but I, and I'm sure plenty of Zangief's loyalist, would like it for certain throw back reasons. In addition to his rivalry with Darun Mister throughout the SFEX games, it would also be amusing for Zangief to appear in FEXL based the fact that some supplementary material to Street Fighter V stated him giving one of the Chess pieces to activate Shadaloo's Dark Moons operation to Darun (despite him not being solely owned by Capcom).

What do the rest of you think of my choices?AJP27 (talk) 01:32, July 22, 2018 (UTC)

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