What do a Portuguese soccer player and a Japanese fighting game have in common? Two words: Saudi Arabia.
You might be wondering why exactly a real-world soccer player is being added to a game whose cast is otherwise made up of more conventional fighting game semi-superheroes with handles like Rock Howard, Vox Reaper, Tizoc, and Kain R. Heinlein. The short answer is, I don’t know. If it had been Vinnie Jones, okay, maybe, but Ronaldo? I don’t see it.
But there are some interesting connections between the seemingly disparate pieces. The Fatal Fury games are developed by SNK, a Japanese gaming company founded in 1987 that’s now almost entirely owned by Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammad bin Salman through the Electronic Games Development Company, a part of the Mohammed bin Salman Foundation.
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Wish they could’ve gone with someone who hasn’t been paying hush money to silence sexual assault allegations.
Or someone who didn’t take sponsorships from companies that ruined lives (herbalife)
Maybe like Renaldo?
That makes no sense.
He is given a soccer ball to fight with
Okay that makes a tiny bit more sense but still very ridiculous.
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