The various websites where people post mods for Street Fighter also have some potentially discomfiting patterns. I’m not misrepresenting anything there, since you can find a whole lot of great stuff in modding threads, but I am lying by omission. I paint a delightful picture of the mod community, telling my new-to-the-scene friends, “Just Google around and I bet you can find whatever character design you want!” In my own personal quest to introduce other people to the intimidating world of Street Fighter, I often talk up the mods I’ve got installed, from Ken’s costumes to C. If you’ve got something you want to change about the world of Street Fighter–and goodness knows I do–mods give you the power to change it, provided you’ve got a PC copy of the game in question (modding on the PlayStation version of the game is currently out of reach-but give it a decade or two someone will crack that thing). You can change characters’ outfits, hairstyles, and even their lines or poses. With some Internet digging, I can bring back my favorite costumes or install completely new and original outfits designed by fans.įrom the perspective of enjoying fashion alone, I can’t say enough good things about the mod community for Street Fighter. I love Ken’s magenta gi in Street Fighter IV it’s not in Street Fighter V, but for the grace of mods.
I also love the nostalgic mods that bring back old costumes from previous games. Personally, I like to install mods made with referential cleverness in mind, like the mod that transforms the character Poison into Bayonetta (pictured above), or the one that turns C. There are a lot of great reasons to install fan-made modifications to the character models in Street Fighter.