About a week since its debut, Street Fighter 6 has been trending very well. The prominent fighting game seems to be reaching a wider range of players, especially due to the newest additions to the game: World Tour, Battle Hub, and the Avatar Creator. World Tour and Battle Hub have been the main attraction of Street Fighter 6, but a good part of their success can be attributed to the Avatar Creator. Players may feel more engaged with a game if they can create their own characters, and Street Fighter 6 incorporates that idea very well.
Despite being the first of its series, the Avatar Creator is a decent character builder. Players can customize all sorts of options regarding how their characters looks from head to toe. Players can witness the creative possibilities of the Street Figther Avatar Creator by heading into the Battle Hub and observing other players' fighters. However, one point could be made that the Avatar Creator might seem well, but it's a missed opportunity by Capcom. The Avatar Creator is strictly tied to World Tour and Battle Hub, so it's completely absent from the Fighting Ground mode.
A Separate Avatar Creator Could've Made SF6 More Entertaining
Players can only access the Avatar Creator by playing World Tour and Battle Hub, which may not be everyone's cup of tea. Casual players will be looking to play in Fighting Ground, the mode consisting of the usual Street Fighter modes such as 1v1 battles and arcade mode. However, in Fighting Ground, players aren't able to use their own avatars from SF6's World Tour and Battle Hub, which is disappointing because of the time and effort spent to create ultimate fighters. Capcom could've added an Avatar Creator separate from World Tour and Battle Hub for players to create original, fully developed characters for Fighting Ground modes.
A different Avatar Creator for Fighting Ground could be a feature similar to character creators from other fighting games like WWE 2K23 and EA's UFC4. In those games, players are able to not only customize fighters' appearances but their fighting ability and movesets. In Street Fighter 6, there's plenty of special moves to learn and stats to modify. World Tour already presents six attributes that could be modified through leveling up and wearing particular gear: vitality, punch strength, kick strength, throw strength, unique attack strength, and defense.
With an expansive Avatar Creator, players could create multiple unique characters with their own distinct designs and fighting styles. Created avatars can adopt all sorts of moves from the multiple characters of Street Fighter 6, such as Dhalsim, Luke, and Marisa. Unlike World Tour where players need to level up and enroll as legendary fighters' students, the new Avatar Creator could allow players to mix-and-match any set of moves or special arts and compliment them with the right attributes, appearance, and clothing.
An Avatar Creator in World Tour and Battle Hub May Never Happen
Having an Avatar Creator separate from World Tour and Battle Hub may seem like a good idea, but it may not happen for Street Fighter 6's sake. A separate Avatar Creator could undermine the efforts to create World Tour and Battle Hub. If given more creative freedom with the Avatar Creator, some players would rather create already powerful fighters with diverse movesets rather than have to play through the story-based World Tour and grind for levels, moves, and gear.
Also, a new Avatar Creator would take attention away from actual Street Fighter 6 characters that made the series so iconic. Some players might rather control their own created characters rather than the actual Street Fighter characters, making canon characters obsolete. It might be for the best for Street Fighter 6 to not add a separate Avatar Creator, but it should address the flaws with World Tour and Battle Hub. If anything, Capcom should add different files for different characters for World Tour, so players could select which fighter they want to use in the story or in Battle Hub fights.
Street Fighter 6 is available now on PC, PS5, PS4, and Xbox Series X|S.
