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Old 2011-04-27, 02:02   Link #528
Akiyoshi
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To be fair, fist are very underrated in the franchise until ViVid. Season 1 and A's only showed Arf, Zafira and Lotte Lieze as the only brawlers around(with Lotte as the most successful of them) but still the main action takes place in armed combat. Subaru was a pretty big surprise on StrikerS exactly for that reason, a fist powered brawler on rollerblades, there's also Ginga, Tre and Nove, but the last two didn't get much screentime to really show what they can do so it's again a rarity ....unless you count Sankt Kaiser Vivio who spent the majorityof her screentime literally punching the Ace of Aces across the room.

ViVid looks fresh by introducing several examples of magical martial artists, they're still mages, the only difference is that they're using their magic as a replacement of chii/ki/chakra to go "Street Fighter" on the opponent(Einhart and Vivio are the worst offenders being able to even do Hadoken/Kamehameha esque moves xD). Still there's different styles of magic, where introdued to a good number of magic-fighters which i find amusing to say the least, we also get introduced to a few more unique styles, we have a "Thunder emperor", a Witch and now a Samurai(a real one) and that's not counting Corona's amazing Golem Creation magic.

Aside of all those new styles i also want to see an exansion on underdeveloped previous styles like Lutecia's magic, it will be interesting to see what methods she have to face opponents on a one-on-one match.
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