Guy (Final Fight)

General CVG character
name=Guy


caption=Guy as drawn in the Super Famicom game "Final Fight Guy"
series=""Final Fight" series, "Street Fighter" series
firstgame="Final Fight"
artist=Akiman
voiceactor=Tetsuya Iwanaga
japanactor=
inuniverse=Street Fighter character
birthplace=Japan
nationality=Japan ("Final Fight") America ("Street Fighter Alpha")
fightingstyle=Bushin Ryū Ninpō
likes=Salmon Ochazuke, Sneakers
dislikes=Horizontal Writing
Mad Gear
Bison and Shadaloo
specialskill=Sprinting (100 m: 10.2 sec), Making Bonsainihongo|Guy|ガイ|Gai|derived from the Japanese name "Gai" (凱) is a video game character who first appears in the 1989 arcade beat-em-up "Final Fight" by Capcom. Guy would later reemerge, along with other "Final Fight" characters, as a fighting game character in "" and its sequels. Guy is a red-clad ninpō master of Japanese descent who has been taught the fictional Bushin form of ninjutsu.

History

Guy is one of three playable characters, along with Cody and Haggar, in the original arcade version of "Final Fight", released for the arcades by Capcom in 1989. Each of the three fighters featured their own unique characteristics, with Guy being the fastest of the three due to his ninjutsu skills. One of his most novel techniques in the game is the "Off-the-Wall Kick", a technique which allows Guy to bounce off the wall with a jump kick. Due to space constraint, Guy was initially omitted from the Super NES port of the game, with Cody and Haggar being the only playable characters in that version. Capcom later produced a second Super NES version titled "Final Fight Guy", which replaced Cody's character with that of Guy, with the in-game explanation given that Cody was away training under Guy's master in Japan. Later versions of the game such as "Final Fight CD" for Sega CD and "Final Fight One" for the Game Boy Advance would include all three characters. Capcom also produced an NES game titled "Mighty Final Fight", a parody of the original "Final Fight" which features all three characters. In the backstory of the original "Final Fight", Guy is established to be the 39th successor of the Bushin-style Ninpo.

Capcom later released "Final Fight 2" in 1993, a sequel created specifically for the Super NES. In this installment, Guy's sensei, Genryusai and his daughter (Guy's fiancee), are kidnapped by the new incarnation of Mad Gear. In the game's story, Guy is off on a training mission and is unable to rescue his fiancee and master. Instead, the game features Guy's sister-in-law, Maki, who has also been trained in the same fighting style, and Carlos Miyamoto, a South American swordsman. Guy only makes an appearance in the end of the game, although the game does feature power-up icons shaped after his character.

When Capcom produced the original "Street Fighter Alpha" in 1995, Guy would be one of two "Final Fight" characters to be included in the game along with the game's second stage boss Sodom. In this game, Guy's character design was altered slightly, with his ninja boots replaced by sneakers, although his fighting style mimics that of his "Final Fight" counterpart. Guy and Sodom would be joined by Rolento in 1996's "Street Fighter Alpha 2" and by Cody in 1998's "Street Fighter Alpha 3", followed by Maki's appearance in the portable versions of "Alpha 3". Guy's new design would be used in the second "Final Fight" sequel for the Super NES, "Final Fight 3" in 1995, where he teams up once again with Haggar to save Metro City from the Skull Cross gang. This version, along with Cody's Street Fighter Alpha rendition, are also hidden characters in Final Fight One.

In the "Alpha" games, Guy's Bushin predecessor is revealed to be a man named Zeku, who would appear in Guy's ending in "Street Fighter Alpha 2" to test Guy for his successorship. Zeku's presence in the game contradicts "Final Fight 2", which identifies Genryusai as Guy's sensei, as designers of the "Alpha" games did not take into account the Super NES "Final Fight" sequels when developing the games. When Maki was reintroduced in "Capcom vs. SNK 2", Capcom provided the explanation that Maki belongs to the original clan that formed the Bushin style and that Genryusai was Zeku's master, who in turn trained Guy and Maki.Fact|date=June 2008

During the same year "Alpha 3" was released in the arcades, Guy was featured in the American-produced "Final Fight Revenge", a fighting game for the arcades and Sega Saturn featuring the original "Final Fight" cast.

A second American-produced "Final Fight" sequel was released in 2006 titled "", which reimagines Guy's character was as an Asian crime lord in the Japan Town district of Metro City.

Gameplay

Guy's fighting style can be described as a fusion of traditional ninjutsu with modern street brawling. Guy's special moves are Hozanto(Turning Elbow), where Guy dodges by turning around and then strikes, Bushin Senpuu Kyaku, a faster but weaker version of Ryu and Ken's Tatsumaki, and Bushin Izuna Drop, where Guy grabs his opponent by the head and smashes him or her onto the floor. Guy's most powerful attack is Bushin Musou Renge, where the screen will darken like the Shun Goku Satsu, but the player can see Guy's silhouette pummelling his helpless opponent.

In Street Fighter Alpha 2, Guy was one of the few characters who could perform chain comboes after they were removed. In the Street Fighter series, Guy lacks a projectile, though he can throw a close-ranged burst of ki and shuriken in Final Fight 3 and Final Fight Revenge respectively. Guy is the only Final Fight character in the Street Fighter Alpha series to not use a weapon.

In other media

Guy appears in the "Street Fighter Alpha" manga by Masahiko Nakahira. In it, Guy depicted as a well-known vigilante ninja who goes around bringing an end to several criminal organisations. Guy disguised himself as a member of Shadaloo to face M. Bison, but he is forced to reveal his identity when Vega tries to kill both Adon and a possessed Ryu. After making quick work of Vega, Guy kicks several barrels at Ryu (a nod to the "Final Fight" series), then proceeds to fight Ryu. Due to Guy's superior speed and training to fight multiple enemies at once, Guy was able to block every punch from Ryu's Shun Goku Satsu and defeat him. Guy is last seen watching over the battle between Ryu and Sagat. His silhouette is also seen in "Sakura Ganbaru!", when Maki talks about the Bushin style.

Guy makes a cameo appearance in the anime "Street Fighter Alpha" as one of the warriors who have agreed to accompany Ryu, Ken and Chun-Li to Professor Sadler's Shadaloo base and rescue Shun, Ryu's supposed brother. At the base, he is seen briefly fighting Dhalsim, on whom he attempts a Bushin jump-kick, only for Dhalsim to teleport himself away and seemigly hit Guy from behind. He is last seen in a cell along with the other fighters, where Ken and Chun-Li break them out before going to rescue Birdie.

Guy also appears in the American "Street Fighter" animated series in an episode titled "Final Fight", which adapts the plot of its namesake. In this episode, Guy and Cody befriends Ryu and Ken, who aid them in fighting the Mad Gear Gang to save Jessica.

Promotion and reception

IGN ranked Guy at number twenty-four in their "Top 25 Street Fighter Characters" list, stating "those dull, unassuming looks work in his favor. He doesn't look especially dangerous until it's too late." [ [http://stars.ign.com/articles/894/894966p2.html Top 25 Street Fighter Characters - Day I] . IGN. Retrieved on 2008-08-15]

References

External links

* [http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Street_Fighter_Alpha/Characters/Guy Guy's Street Fighter Alpha] entry at [http://strategywiki.org/ StrategyWiki.org]