Mushing through Arcade Mode in Fighting EX Layer on PS4 as Hokuto, the original, maybe repressive personality of Shirase, older sister of Sanane, and (age-relation-unspecified?) sister of Kairi. Hokuto is pretty much the worst.
Her animations felt unanchored, slow, floaty, and wrong the second I started trying to move with her. Her normals feels all over the place, her suppose-to-be methodical special moves feel pointless, and her supers feel weak; at least she can fire an arrow in one super--just like Shirase :P--for meager damage, but it's direct.
This reminded me that Shirase is pretty bad, too. Sanane, on the other hand, actually feels fast and responsive. Were they animated by different people? Because Hokuto/Shirase is awful. She makes the whole game feel awful. The music suddenly struck me as pretty bad in a lot of the stages. The AI was dumb because if I got tired of jump-ins I found the footsie thing to do (as opposed to the slide-in low attack thing to do, a FEXL favorite which also gets old) was back + heavy kick, a pretty rangy, long-lasting move that the AI would just run into repeatedly until it KOed itself.
The Wiki says sister Sanane's goes by the last name Suzuki. Is it also Hokuto's last name? I guess I'll assume it is for the same of YouTube hashtags. : P Oh also "Sanane" is actually the name "Nanase" used in the older, Street Fighter EX games; why that changed is not explained. So uh yeah.
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