Keepin' it stylish!: Raging Demon

(Super Combo, Super Art, Hyper Combo & Mighty Combo)

(Ultra Combo)

Shun Goku Satsu (瞬獄殺, lit. "Instant Hell Murder") also called the "Raging Demon", is a technique commonly seen in the Street Fighter games. Usually, it is a super move that requires a full meter to execute, is unblockable, and inflicts heavy damage. It is normally associated with Akuma, although Ryu has been able to use it as well (only in his Evil state). The motion for the move is usually Jab (LP), Jab (LP), Forward, Short (LK), Fierce (HP) tapped separately and rhythmically (although in Street Fighter IV, allows the last three inputs to be pressed simultaneously). In practical use however, the first two Jabs are hidden during some other action to surprise the target.

History

The Raging Demon in the storyline was a very powerful, but fatally dangerous technique taught in the original principles of the martial art taught by Goutetsu. The move usually defeats the opponent instantly or kills them while destroying their soul.

While immensely powerful, some characters have survived its wrath. Gill faced a Raging Demon head on, but because of his Resurrection ability, he survived the encounter. Gen also managed to withstand the attack by emptying his soul in time before it could consume him, but it took a lot of power to do so. M. Bison has faced it at the end of Super Street Fighter II Turbo, but kept a portion of his life force and a part of his soul within Rose which allowed him to come back in Street Fighter IV. Gouken, Akuma's brother, has also been confirmed to have survived. This was due to his embrace to "emptiness" within his fighting style. It was most likely that Gouken performed a soul evacuation much like Gen but somewhat mistimed it, resulting in Gouken lapsing into a comatose state. However, this attack cannot work on people who have no souls or artificial life forms.

Concept

Animation — The infamous animation of the Raging Demon

he actual attack of the Raging Demon is never displayed explicitly onscreen. When performed, the user glides towards the opponent and grabs them. Before anything else can be seen, the screen blacks out (or turns completely blank white in some game incarnations) as the character is relentlessly beaten, as showcased by a series of flashes.

Appearances

Super Street Fighter II Turbo featured the first appearance of this attack, though it was not its first usable appearance; Akuma's introduction has him perform the attack on Bison just as he is about to face the player. It was Akuma's Super Combo in later versions of the game.^[1] The Raging Demon continued to be Akuma's trademark Super Combo throughout the Street Fighter Alpha series. As an extension, Akuma's Alpha series inspired appearance in Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix as a deformed character, also uses the Raging Demon with an altered input to accomodate the three button interface.

The Raging Demon returned along with Akuma in Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact as his secret Super Art, and one of two secret Super Arts in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike. He could use it in a match no matter what Super Art had been selected, thus giving him access to more than one Super Art at any given time.

Naturally, the Raging Demon has also been Akuma's signature Super Combo in the various crossover games such as Capcom vs. SNK, Marvel vs. Capcom and Street Fighter X Tekken series. It also makes its first ever CG appearance as well in Steve Fox and Hwoarang's ending after the latter has his wish to fight a hundred fighters at once unwittingly granted by Pandora by summoning a gauntlet of Akumas where they all attack at once.

The move made its second CG appearance in Asura's Wrath, Lost Episode 1: At Last, Someone Angrier Than Me; Evil Ryu and Asura used it on each other, but both are seen standing after the sucessful quick-time event, drawing the conclusion that the moves canceled each other blow by blow. In Lost Episode 2: The Strongest vs. The Angriest, Oni attempts to use the Raging Demon, but is interrupted and countered, resulting in Oni flying into the air.

Wrath of the Raging Demon

he Raging Demon is once again Akuma's Super Combo in the Street Fighter IV games. However, this series also gave him access to a far more powerful version of the attack known as Shin Shun Goku Satsu (真・瞬獄殺, True Instant Hell Murder), or alternately "Wrath of the Raging Demon", as his first Ultra Combo. It is essentially the same as the original, but when Akuma comes into contact with a fighter, he tells the fighter "Prepare yourself!" and when he connects, four kanji appear in the corners of the screen, and he says "die one thousand deaths" (the kanji that appear are isshun sengeki (一瞬千撃), "one moment, one thousand strikes"), after which Akuma proceeds with the attack, and the opponent screams in pain, in the same manner as if they were just knocked out. While the standard Raging Demon has 15 hits, the Wrath of the Raging Demon deals 27 hits to the opponent and with a full Revenge Gauge, is capable of taking off more than half of the foe's life bar.

From a gameplay point-of-view, the previous properties of his Raging Demon have been divided between his Super and Ultra combo. The Super version is a zero frame grab, making it impossible to evade after the Super Flash in throw range. The Ultra version however gets the startup invincibility and high damage. Due to its telegraphed nature, 'Kara Demons' are nearly useless with the Ultra version. Instead the Ultra functions better as a counter, punish and anti-air.

Shin Akuma's Wrath of the Raging Demon uses a true Ashura Senku during the slide, has the ability to pass through attacks that would normally cancel the Raging Demon and grants them priority over almost all moves allowing to cancel them (including Ultra Combos.) The speed of the slide is much faster than that of his playable counterpart, and the slide itself covers the entire screen.

Keepin' it stylish!

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Raging Demon

History

Concept

Appearances

Wrath of the Raging Demon

Screenshots

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