Patreon Pin Up 9/25/23: Chun Li (Patreon)

Chun Li beats Juri Han in this months Discord poll! It was a landslide I didn't see coming, actually. It felt like Juri fan art was everywhere when Street Fighter 6 launched, but either you can't go wrong with the classics or my voters aren't as into feet overall. XD

I've drawn plenty of Street Fighter girls over the years and always had a fondness for the franchise and its legacy, but holy crap, SF6 is my favorite game in the series by far. Maybe even my favorite fighting game ever. 

One big reason is the introduction of what the game calls "modern" control mode. If you've heard me talk about SF in the past, you've heard me lamenting that the button input combinations in previous games are like riddles my thumbs don't know how to answer. An SF fight for me is less about timing and battle strategy than it is about watching my character flail around wildly as I desperately try to pull off my triple-bar special right before I receive my inevitable ass-whupping. Modern controls map all your supers to one button like Smash Bros and suddenly I can actually win against the computer even on higher difficulty levels. 

So boom. One major problem solved. But another one is that in most SF games, the single-player content is a bit lacking. SF6, on top of having a whole-ass feature complete fighting game, comes packaged with essentially an open world action rpg that I would have happily paid for separately. I gained countless hours of entertainment picking fights with random passerby NPCs alone. Had the nerve to walk past me while wearing a silly hat in Metro City? Prepare for a savage beating, good sir. 

This story mode doesn't have what I'd call a gripping narrative, but it won me over with the charm of exploring the world of Street Fighter and Final Fight in a more tangible way than any game has allowed before. Encountering the legacy characters in the wild and training under them is also a hoot, because you have the option to butter them up dating sim-style and learn more about their personalities. Did you know Chun Li is a competitive sharpshooter? Or that Cammy is obsessed with cats? I sure didn't. Plus little things like Ryu's first attempts at texting or Dhalsim trying to understand the concept of mild curry are entertaining as hell to longtime fans like me. 

I'm at the end of the blog and I just realized I forgot to explain the pin up. In the game, Chun Li teaches an outdoor Kung Fu class and every time I walked by it I had a scenario pop into my head where the best students get to bukkake her at the end of the day because I have a problem. Hope you like how this idea turned out in the pin up, and play this game if you were on the fence about trying it! :)