Bought this pack for Arjun and potentially Bosch, I have zero interest in Tifa whatsoever, but man so far Yasmine is pretty boring.
I haven't played an obscene amount of Yasmine, but I have played a ton of Akuma, and I am tellin' you that she is like Akuma if you wanted to make him do way less damage and have way less options. Honestly her level 2 install super feels like how she should be at all times, her damage increases and her specials get better properties, as well as getting a pretty solid new special that works like Juri's V skill 1 (it's a crossup dash attack if you aren't familiar with sfv). Sadly though, I think Yasmine is a bit of a miss for me as a new all-rounder sort of archetype, especially in a game that has multiple that in this current season of sf6 are very very good.
I'll edit this review later once I get my hands on Arjun, but I'm absurdly excited for that character, more excited than I've been for any character release in sf6 aside from Akuma. Everything described about the character is so cool looking in, from his crazy okizeme traps to his setplay tools, this character just seems like he has everything I would want in a character aside from a good anti-air (of which we realistically have no idea about, but characters need weaknesses as it is so I'd be content anyways).
Not trying to be mean, but it is a little disappointing to see Capcom only really appeal to niche communities in regard to their crossover characters so far. Sure, Terry and Mai are a huge part of Capcom's history in regard to crossovers in fighting games to begin with, but is Capcom seriously just shilling for FF7 by having a tie in crossover with the last remake trilogy game slated to come out around the same time as Tifa in sf6? I guess this has been the standard for crossovers since Starkiller and Yoda were put in Soulcalibur in the 2010s, I just assumed we moved past it by now.
There was a leak right before this season got revealed that outlined Makoto, Vega, Q, and Tifa as the next season of characters. Honestly, that would have realistically been the best season of Street Fighter 6 to date solely because it would have given something to pretty much every group of Street Fighter player. Ironic now that Tifa was the only character leak that came true, the sole character leak that likely was least believable.
I have no interest in FF7, I don't know anyone younger than the age of 30 who cares about FF7 past thinking the characters look cool. Maybe I'm out of the loop but I really didn't realize that FF7 was truly presently important to video game consumers. I'm sure Tifa in a fighting game is cool for those who love the character, but I don't really see how Tifa is selling copies outside of a couple dozen dads who don't play fighting games and will drop the game after a maximum of 10 hours.
Bosch I actually always assumed would've become a dlc character after his prominent presence in World Tour mode, so I was always intrigued in what would become of him and when he'd show up. I sort of wish we got him before Tifa just so that I could mentally check out of the game and take a break from it after Bosch's release so I could just ignore Tifa's release, but him being flung into Spring of next year sort of stings.
Overall I'm still looking forward to Arjun and Bosch, can't say I've ever been intrigued in more than 2 characters per each season to begin with since season 1 anyways so half of the dlc roster being characters of little importance to me is nothing new. As long as more characters are added for others to enjoy, realistically no character addition is a wasted slot since it just rounds out the roster with more options for others that may want to pick them up. If I've seemed catty at the addition of any characters in this review, it is realistically because Q/G and Balrog still have not shown up after 4 seasons of dlc. Bummer, but it's not like sfv is going anywhere anyways so not really a big problem.
