{"id":14970,"date":"2014-03-29T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T04:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=14970"},"modified":"2024-02-25T23:42:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T04:42:07","slug":"minimate-mini-review-145-sentinel-first-appearance-ryu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/03\/minimate-mini-review-145-sentinel-first-appearance-ryu\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimate Mini-Review #145 - Sentinel & First Appearance Ryu"},"content":{"rendered":"

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#145 - Sentinel\/First Appearance Ryu<\/h3>\n

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Sentinels are robotic mutant hunters developed by Bolivar Trask, a scientist who felt that mutants were becoming a threat to mankind. Not possessing their own artificial intelligence, they blindly follow their anti-mutant programming, but can be programmed to fight any opponent.<\/i><\/p>\n

Sentinels in Capcom's fighting games have always had a unique design, and this Minimate keeps it alive. There are many new pieces: boots, thighs, gloves, a massive angular chest cap, and a rounded hat. He's done in metallic purple and blue, which has been the default colorscheme ever since 1994's X-Men: Children of the Atom<\/i>. Technically the triangles on his shoulders should be red, but that's a minor thing.<\/p>\n

Ryu gained great recognition among martial artists after he defeated the Muay Thai king in a fight. However, instead of claiming his fame, Ryu wandered the globe, hoping to become a true martial artist. He continues his journey, engaging in battles with fighters he meets along the way.<\/i><\/p>\n

Neat! This Ryu is based on his appearance in the original Street Fighter<\/i> game, where he had red hair and wore tiny slippers! The rest of the details remained unchanged when Street Fighter II<\/i> came out - a white gi, a black belt, red gloves, a headband - but the hair and feet are definitely what mark this as a \"first appearance\" version, and that's never had any<\/b> toys before.<\/p>\n

Ryu comes with the same energy blast that was created for Art Asylum's first crack at the SFII<\/i> license, but there's been a change: they added a hole on one side. That may not sound like much, but add one of the \"single stem\" hover stands (included with the set, naturally), and now the shoryuken<\/s> hadoken fireball can actually point straight out instead of drooping to the floor.<\/p>\n

<i>And now, some more OAFEry:<\/i><\/H5>