Road Fighter 6 has been coping with an issue of its personal making for a few month now, after it put fan favourite fighter Alex in an incestuous relationship along with his second cousin/adopted sister Patricia, a lot to the dismay of longtime followers. Capcom stated it could be addressing “deceptive” textual content in Alex’s story that may have led to all this discomfort, and even launched a brief story attempting to cowl its decades-old tracks. Now, the long-awaited patch is out and it does…completely nothing.
The patch notes don’t get into the specifics, as they merely say that the textual content of Alex’s World Story segments has been “adjusted.” However trying on the recreation itself, it appears that evidently the change is to 1 line of dialogue through which Alex tells the participant about rising up with Tom, his first cousin as soon as eliminated and the daddy of his future bride Patricia. Within the authentic model, Alex explicitly tells the participant that Tom is his late mom’s cousin, which might make his daughter Patricia Alex’s second cousin. How might Capcom presumably hope to “repair” this complete factor with years of established backstory establishing that Alex and Patricia are blood-related? It could possibly’t, and it barely tries.
Now, Alex refers to Tom as “a distant relative of my mother or one thing,” which is hilarious not solely as a result of it doesn’t change or contradict something from earlier than because it nonetheless confirms the familial relationship between these folks, however as a result of calling somebody’s cousin a “distant relative” is extremely disingenuous.
Capcom’s strategy to dealing with this unforced error has been to attempt (and fail) to retcon Alex’s historical past somewhat than simply scrapping the incest storyline that has put a reasonably unlucky stain on the character’s legacy. At first, my greatest query was: why is the corporate so invested in sustaining this storyline that it could repeatedly attempt to undermine Alex’s backstory in an effort to make it much less objectionable? However now, I’m simply questioning why Capcom has been so laughably incompetent in “fixing” it. At this fee, it doesn’t appear to be Capcom goes to simply scrap the entire thing and never make Alex a cousin kisser, however the harm is just about finished already. That is going to observe Alex ceaselessly.
