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Ryu is probably one of the most iconic figure of the Street Fighter series, and that’s precisely why Ryu had to go through several extreme makeovers to make sure he looks presentable to players.

Playing enough Street Fighter 4 will probably burn the image of Ryu into your mind by now. But for the sake of people who haven’t seen Ryu in Street Fighter 4 before, here’s a picture of how he looks like:

And this is how he looks like in the previous few iterations before he got finalized as the look above:

According to the developers of SF4, it looks like Ryu had went through almost 10 different iterations before they finally decided on how Ryu should look like. If you ask me, I would definitely prefer the look of Ryu on the bottom right of the second picture. The Ryu in SF4 now just looks too old (i know, i know, storyline and stuffs, right?).

It’s not just Ryu who had gotten the “many-designs” as the director of SF4 mentioned that Chun-Li had received so many redesigns on the face that he couldn’t count how many there are in total! The changes were apparently decided when the surveys returned that players would something different from Chun-Li.

Other interesting bit of information includes the deformation of several anatomy of the characters while fighting. It was stated that, for example, the fist of a character would suddenly become bigger when the character strikes the enemy. This is to give an impression to the player, just like the previous Street Fighter games had done it.

For more goodies on behind the scene, you might want to drop by Shoryuken!

Via: Andriasang.

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