I found some motivation to continue working on Sagara Sanosuke. With that, I also decided to work on Okita Souji from the Shinsengumi (based on the Rurouni Kenshin anime). Note that these characters will be for MUGEN 1.0 only. Check out the preview video.
Demonstration video of Okita Souji and Sagara Sanosuke Alpha version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW-nC91gTII
Okita Souji
Most of the coding is basically done. Everything will be refined once I am done editing all necessary sprites. Here is the planned moveset and I hope to come up with two level 1 hypers. He will have two level 2 hypers (one charging attack and one counter attack) and no level 3 hypers.
Sagara Sanosuke
I will continue working on DanMT's sprites which is based on Kiwami by Edogawa Inpo. Most basic movements are done except for walking. Attack sprites will be worked on as soon as Okita is done.
Here is a concept sprite:
Sano will be a fist fighter by default. His zanbatou will be in the background and Sano can pick it up/drop it during the match Samurai shodown style.
In fist mode, he will be able to punch, kick, and throw. His level 1 super will be a rushing punch attack. His level 2 will be Futae no Kiwami which is unblockable but it will hurt him as well. Sanjuu no kiwami is his level 3 super. Similar to my Kenshin's ougi 2nd step, Sano can only perform sanju no kiwami when futae no kiwami connects and Sano has 20% life. It will resemble Terry's Buster Wolf. :P
When he picks up the zanbatou, he will be in Zanza mode. In this mode, he can only swing his sword 4 ways (up, down, side to side, and poke). He will not have any specials/hypers. He will also not be able to jump nor duck, but he will have superarmor. When he is put in a custom state, he will drop his sword. To prevent abuse of the zanbatou, it will also have its own "health" meter (sort of like Jojo's stand system) and its health will deplete every time it connects or gets guarded. When it's "health" is zero, the sword will break and you cannot use it for the remainder of the match.
If you have any suggestions or any other move ideas, let me know. Until then.. thanks for all your support!
