Occasion prefer it’s 1989

As a part of this weekend’s Evo festivities, Capcom launched a brand new trailer exhibiting off two of the characters headed to its upcoming sequel Avenue Fighter 6 — and whereas Juri wants no introduction, (yeah, I nonetheless gave her one), there’s extra intrigue to be discovered within the kind of a SF6 newcomer, the vivacious Kimberly!

Representing the nice ol’ US of A, Kimberly is a younger, energetic, and extremely acrobatic lady who combines her love of music, paint, and martial arts to create road beats on her opponent’s bonce. Graduating from faculty early resulting from her unimaginable aptitude abilities, Kimberely tracked down Closing Battle hero and erstwhile ninja Man, who skilled her within the lightning-fast artwork of Bushinryu. Now the thirty ninth successor of the ability, Kimberly has infused her amazingly acrobatic combating abilities together with her love of artwork and music to create a singular type all of her personal.

From her debut trailer, we will already see Kimberly’s ninja abilities coming to bear, with a motion and assault type paying homage to characters reminiscent of Man, Zeku, Ibuki, and Maki. Kimberly’s lithe physique permits her to maneuver at nice pace, bearing down on her opponent from a distance at a cut up second. We catch a variant of Man’s basic helicopter spin kick, in addition to a wide range of sprint assaults that see Kimberly combine up her opponent with excessive, low, and overhead maneuvers.

Additionally in impact are the everyday Bushinryu vary of aerial suplexes, in addition to a fairly brutal-looking wall splat, permitting Kimberly to comply with up with additional assaults. After all, she wouldn’t be a ninja with out some type of teleport means, and Hidden Variable will permit Kim to fade in a cloud of paint, earlier than getting the drop on her opponent. As well as, her spray cans double as Ibuki-style bombs, permitting savvy gamers to arrange juggles forward of time. For her Tremendous, Kimberly cranks up the quantity on her tape-deck, earlier than turning her airborne opponent right into a dwelling murals, lastly bringing them crashing again to earth with a rainbow-spangled Bushin Goraisenpujin. Ow.

As a brand new character, it’s powerful to get a grip on Kimberly from this quick video, but it surely’s clear that she has been designed with Man/Zeku/Ibuki gamers in thoughts, that includes one thing of a mix of all of their skills — from sprint assaults and wall-runs, to bomb setups and aerial grappling. Kimberly additionally has a extremely vivid and dazzling design, whereas embodying the “city artwork” vibe of Avenue Fighter 6 normally. Fairly frankly, I believe she represents the entire “model” of SF6 greater than some other character revealed thus far. Will probably be fascinating to see if the group adopts the “Ninja Star” as an envoy for SF6 at giant.

Avenue Fighter 6 launches 2023 on PlayStation, PC, and Xbox platforms.  Make sure you take a look at the brand new theme track, our ideas on its new protagonists, our breakdown of the Juri trailer, and possibly even a take a look at the current roster leak.