Astaroth and Viola Announced at TGS

[Reignhart]

And we'll have a white knight with a huge arm wielding a a long sword. He's a got a raspy voice but he's called Dream.

No, he's not a reformed Nightmare, I assure you... He's just a new character called Dream.

"Tremble! This is true ecstasy!"
"In the end! You will give into forgiveness!"
"The dream will never end."
"Can you see the light of the heavens?"
"I will show you the greatest dream!"

 

[Cena]

I'm just going to wait for Amy to actually show up, thanks. I'm not losing my main GDI :T

 

[Reave]

the Zwei argument is VERY valid. This character is linked to Zwei and both are presented as new. In order for this to all be Amy...she would need to:

• Lose her connection to Raph
• Forget her rapier Style
• Forget her fight style
• Gain a connection to Zwei
• Gain new Powers
• Likely lose her vampire powers (what they were i dunno, but it comes up a lot or somethin)
• Learn a new weapon
• Completely become someone that is not anything of Amy in regards to origin, gameplay, and style beyond hair/costume and somehow feel like this is a good idea for Amy fans. "Hi this is Ivy----err Rosalita...she uses hammer, has a rival cousin who's a mummy, and never mind that one gauntlet and thong... " -_______________-

I learned to use the nunchaku in three so im sure an extra 14 years is enough time for all that to occur

 

[JayShadow]

In order for this to all be Amy...she would need to:

Lose her connection to Raph

Doesn't remember her past. Plus we don't know what happened to Raph

Forget her rapier Style

Doesn't remember her past

Forget her fight style

Doesn't remember her past

Gain a connection to Zwei

Do you still hang out with all the same people you did when you were a tween and never picked up any new friends?

Gain new Powers

Just guessing here, but I don't think Ivy was wielding a magical sword when she was a kid. Yet 17 years later she was.

Likely lose her vampire powers

According to his bio, Voldo briefly had those powers and then lost them.

Learn a new weapon

In 17 years, which is longer then Amy's entire life up until SCIV.

Completely become someone that is not anything of Amy in regards to origin

Doesn't remember her past...er...origin

gameplay, and style

Yup, those changed...in 17 years.

beyond hair/costume

Also known as character design. If a new nunchuck person came in and wore a vest jacket, they could try to stretch it and pass it off as a style all nunchuck dandies of the sea wear. But once you give him elvis style hair, then he's Maxi.(side note...I wish they had the guts to have maxi's hair fall out or something.)

and somehow feel like this is a good idea for Amy fans.

Yup, apparently so. We were warned the roster would go through a major overhaul from the start. Amy's not any more special than the other characters that aren't coming back the same or at all. Looks like they had an idea for a new character going forward with the series and decided to repurpose an existing character for it.

 

[GrendelsWish]

Okay guyz, so i looked at a hi-res pic of Amy and a hi-res pic of Viola and their skin tones are even different, along with their faces. So I went ahead and looked at a hi res of Hilde in SCIV and now in SCV and she still looks like Hilde in her face. Just because you get older it does not mean that your whole face changes...now, even if this was Amy, shouldn't all of the gamers that use Amy as a main be pissed off? I mean damn, they changed EVERY aspect about Amy. She doesn't even have her fighting style anymore. If Project Soul did something like this with Talim, I personally would be pissed. I know Amy is a secondary character, but changing her so much so that she doesn't even use the same weapon or fighting style doesn't seem like something Project Soul would do to their fans.

unless you play her tales of souls mode and unlock an extra character whom of which is amy with her old discipline back. Amy fans will jump out of their seat with excitement if this happens. Not unlike in SC1 when you finished with Nightmare and got Sigfried. Faces do change as you get older. Especially if you refer to the stylization of anime. Now i don't know how different the renderings are. But we are talking the stylization of 17 years difference.