6th December 2004, 12:51 AM
Yeah, it's all mental. It's a rather common thing, in the same catagory as those who believe ripoff nonsense "sound devices" actually improve audio quality (read: shakra stones). Unfortunatly, a double blind test would be pretty impossible to do here unless the game was reprogrammed. But, if we are doing that we might as well show you the code that says he acts exactly the same.
Try it out. Try picking a character and charade and keep starting battles until charade matches the first chosen character. Make it 2P, that's important (also, so you don't have to match weapons, choose normal 2P, not extra). Now, trade blows. Have him hit, then recieve the SAME hit. Check the health of both. They should be the same. Get them by each other, then hit an attack button at the same time for both of them, they should strike at the exact same time.
Charade is purely a copycat. In fact, he's a straight ripoff of Edgemaster from SC1. Edgemaster also just randomly copied one of the characters exactly (Voldo being a more disturbing example). You also could play as Inferno, and it too was the exact same thing. Well, not EXACT. It actually was BETTER than whoever it was imitating because it could use special Inferno exclusive moves no matter who it was copying (such as the fly into the air, spin around like a nut, then dive at the enemy move). Now, this meant one thing, Inferno was NOT a balanced character. Did those few extra moves really help that much? Not really in most situations, but it was still a possible advantage in some that was certainly not warrented. So, they ditched the super powered Inferno and just had an Edgemaster clone, Charade.
Necrid is an interesting one. That style isn't really unique but rather a specific set of moves all selected from each of the existing characters. Ya know, the way it's pulled off some of the weapon morphs seem a little odd just to be doing the job of THAT specific move :D. Like, pulling out a shield just to use the sword to hit then losing the shield.
Try it out. Try picking a character and charade and keep starting battles until charade matches the first chosen character. Make it 2P, that's important (also, so you don't have to match weapons, choose normal 2P, not extra). Now, trade blows. Have him hit, then recieve the SAME hit. Check the health of both. They should be the same. Get them by each other, then hit an attack button at the same time for both of them, they should strike at the exact same time.
Charade is purely a copycat. In fact, he's a straight ripoff of Edgemaster from SC1. Edgemaster also just randomly copied one of the characters exactly (Voldo being a more disturbing example). You also could play as Inferno, and it too was the exact same thing. Well, not EXACT. It actually was BETTER than whoever it was imitating because it could use special Inferno exclusive moves no matter who it was copying (such as the fly into the air, spin around like a nut, then dive at the enemy move). Now, this meant one thing, Inferno was NOT a balanced character. Did those few extra moves really help that much? Not really in most situations, but it was still a possible advantage in some that was certainly not warrented. So, they ditched the super powered Inferno and just had an Edgemaster clone, Charade.
Necrid is an interesting one. That style isn't really unique but rather a specific set of moves all selected from each of the existing characters. Ya know, the way it's pulled off some of the weapon morphs seem a little odd just to be doing the job of THAT specific move :D. Like, pulling out a shield just to use the sword to hit then losing the shield.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)