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[size="3"]Jason Youngblood[/size]
[b]Attire 1 - SVR06/09 "Green Black & White"[/b]
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[b]Attire 2 - SVR08 "Skirt & Busted Knees"[/b]
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[size="3"]Shawn Youngblood[/size]
[b]Attire 1 - "Blue, Black & White"[/b]
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[size="3"]Elijah Aries - Work In Progress[/size]
I've finally managed to get him out of his white, gold, black color scheme, and away from the use of crosses and the 'God' theme he previously had going on.

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[size="3"][b]Toxic Mask - Work In Progress[/b][/size]
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[b]Toxic[/b]

Now this is saying 'Toxic' a little bit more to me now. It is the first attire that I've done on this game where I felt like it truly kept the old appearance style in-tact and did it justice at the same time. And it is, so far, the only representation of one of my characters that feels like it's really them, as opposed to a generic usage of what THQ 'left for me' from the tattoos/wrestling tights designs.

The chest design looks a little funky in CAW Mode, especially on the front with the green vertical line down the naval, but the back and sides of it look good. I also feel the green line gets forgotten about in-game when it is inmotion, where the entire attire flows together such as Mortis' does.

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[b]Elijah's 2nd Attire
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Toxic's Yellow-Green transformation
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The Avenger
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Shawn YB's "XTV" Attire
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[color=Red][size=5]Game Impressions as we go along:[/size][/color]

[color=red][b]29th Oct: Making first CAW, Jason Youngblood[/b][/color]
Overall, I'm slightly unimpressed. That could just be the fact that the raping of the ''tattoos'' and ''wrestling tights desgins'' categories makes me unable to re-create my character's older looks. In addition I do not like the new layering system, because I can no longer put body tatts on top of tights as an example. I've found that most WWE Designs do not re-color or do so incorrectly, and I've already run into problems for some of my previous CAWs due to facepaint and hair not going on top of masks. Also, moving layers and deleting them is actually slower than last year, which I didn't think was possible. I'm sure I'll find much more that I don't like about CAW Mode, but these are the stand-out problems for me personally.

So far for the things I like about CAW mode... Well... we have the new hair pieces, and the fact that you can color individual clothes on most pieces.

[color=red][b]29th Oct: After making second CAW, Shawn Youngblood[/b][/color]
This is growing on me the more and more I look at it, but it's not great... It's got Shawn's hair and color scheme, but something is throwing it off... I can instantly pick out the designs I have used to make the CAW just by looking at it - making it looks quite generic as a result.

[color=red][b]30th Oct: Whilst making Elijah Aries[/b][/color]
Great... Just found out that we can't put Wrestling Tights Designs behind Designs that are on the leg, because WTDs aren't inside of the "Wrestling Tights layer group". Furthermore, I think I've managed to make Jason, Shawn and Elijah look unique from each other, but I have NO ideas for alt attires because they would all look too similar and interchangeable, given the small amount of leg paint/designs I have to work with.

[color=red][b]30th Oct: Whilst making Toxic Mask[/b][/color]
In the same line of thinking, we cannot put Face Paint on top of Mask Designs, because MDs are inside of the "Mask layer group", which goes on top of facepaint. I found this especially disappointing because being able to do so would have made the 'no facepaint on top of masks' halfway forgivable in my opinion. Another problem is that I need something to black out Toxic's eyes. Normally this would be done by an eyehole-less mask, but all of those sit on top of the hair in this game. Trying to balance Masks not getting rid of hair, and mask designs not covering up all the facepaint detailing has made Toxic a bit of a chore this year. It's not as if I can even recolor the clear eyes to black, because Toxic is an alt attire and it won't even let me edit the eyes at all. I can't have a black-eyed Jason Youngblood in the regular Jason alt attires. Restrictions f'n suck!

[color=red][b]1st Nov: Finishing Toxic's appearance[/b][/color]
Now this is saying 'Toxic' a little bit more to me now. It is the first attire that I've done on this game where I felt like it truly kept the old appearance style in-tact and did it justice at the same time. And it is, so far, the only representation of one of my characters that feels like it's really them, as opposed to a generic usage of what THQ 'left for me' from the tattoos/wrestling tights designs. Maybe, just maybe I'll be able to work around the issues in this game.

[color=red][b]1st-8th Nov: Actually Playing some matches[/b][/color]
The simplicity and ease-of-access of pressing R1/RB to do initiate strong/groggy grapples at will is probably what is most jarring. I still find myself going to attempt chain grapples and doing groggy ones, or expecting to do a groggy grapple only to find out the oppoent isn't dazed enough yet when I think that he should be after the beating I've just given him. This, along with the opponent being a reversal machine in general (especially against humans online), can get OLD really fast! I certainly understand the feeling of "maybe you'll get the move you wanted." I just want to play, not fight with the controls, ya know?

I personally feel the "quick/strong" system was a nice balance between the older 'is he groggy?' style of SD 1-SYM, and 'grapple before EVERY move' of HCTP-SVR07ish (at least I think thats how the older controle schemes were amongst the older games...) I'm sure in time I 'could' get used to it. I just think it's a poor control scheme to have in place.

[b][color=Red]8th Nov: Making a CAW's moveset for the first time.[/color][/b]
The chain grapples certainly need to have more diversity in what is available. There are far too many slots with 16 (four in each grapple stance), for this crappy selection of moves. I know that there were a lot less 'quick grapples' last year, but we could define unique move sets for our characters with 16 'strong grapples', which is where the cooler moves were. Now all my guys will basically fight the same now, using 16 of these basic-looking moves and striking animations, with little else added in. I get only 4 'groggy moves', which is where most of the signature/character defining moves that my CAWs have used throughout their movesets for years have been moved to...

Having completed the moveset, which I am only 'just' pleased resembles anything like a cut-down version of last years that feels true to the character of Jason Youngblood, I know straight away that my characters with more exotic movesets like Shawn Youngblood will not stand a chance, because even more of their old movesets have been removed than Jason's. And although this isn't a trend that started in 2011, half of the moves that are still there have been reanimated to look super weak - or as though they don't connect properly. E.G. A great jumping/spinning kick from last year which looked like a solid connection with the opponent's chin now looks like some weird kind of 'sideways spin attack' that just happens to hurt the opponent some how. What happened to the well animated/impactfull moves from the past? Don't even get me started on how jerky the aerial moves have looked since about svr2008.

There was a reason I hadn't done a moveset for anyone yet, and my fears were realised full-force. As if the new restrictions in the CAW's appearance mode wasn't enough...

[b][color=Red]8th Nov: Surprise, I just glitched![/color][/b]
Just about the FIRST thing I did after suffering through the new create-a-moveset mode was to fall victim to the "attire-copying" glitch! For the record the first thing I did after creating every CAW's first attire was to copy that x3 into each attire slot. So I had 4 attires before I did anything to the moves. After making the moveset for Jason Youngblood and playing a match, decided to work on his attires some more. So I copied attire 2 into attire 4's slot and overwrote the attire I already had there. I did some work and then went to play a match - moveset has been reset. In my experience - and I have just gotten straight off svr2011 and gone back on svr2010 to prove to myself that I was correct - overwriting an attire with another one did NOT erase your moveset, only if you had no attire in a slot and you copied one into it or made a new attire in it.

[b][color=Red]8th Nov: Summery So Far[/color][/b]
I've had the game for exactly 10 days now. Right now I feel like I can't work with such a utterly broken game. Summed up, and in my opinion, it has a worse game-play control scheme, straight up BAD CAW moveset design, and stupid CAW appearance restrictions! Just brilliant!

At this point, I'm 'almost' about ready to take 2011 back to the shop. I probably would if it wasn't for the fact that despite it's faults the game has some redeemable qualities/features. Such as: a more stable community creations, a less laggy online play, no attribute grinding, editable downloaded caws, different hair styles between attires, match creator, a better story designer. As well as the hope that the patch does something usefull, along with the forthcoming NXT and WCW arenas which I am looking forward to.

Still... in my humble opinion I've payed the ultimate price. If I'm not enjoying the actual "CAWing" and "Playing matches" aspects of the game, then I'm not sure how good the other improvements are - or if they are all, by association of not enjoing the CAWing/Matches, for nought. I just hope I get the hang of the matches quickly, and somehow learn to tolerate the appearace/moveset issues better.
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[u][b]Jason YB 4th Attire - Casual (based on 'Immortal Jeff Hardy')[/b][/u]
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[b]Jason YB - Attire 1 - Green/Black/White pants remix[/b]
The old throwback to sv2006 attire looked quite messy, and not really cutting it as an authentic representation of said old attire. Not sure if this looks any better, but it's something different.
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Decided to make the black darker, and make the green larger and stand out more.

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Re-did his first attire into something more original, rather than trying to go for his svr2006 attire. I especially like the crotch design, and I added in the knee braces for Jason's bad knees. The white eyes and peircings were added to make Jason a little more gothic, but also so that the Toxic alt attire would have white eyes.
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[b]SHAWN HAWK & ELIJAH ARIES[/b]

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[b]LUCY YOUNGBLOOD
2nd Attire: Caution[/b]
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Not a CAW, as my Xbox360 is busted, but a collage of different attire inspirations for Lucy. Expect the final 4 attires to look like a merger of what is in each category.
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Thanks for feedback Nicoh. The focus on one color probably comes from having colors defined by their 'talking color' in efeds. Each member of the Youngblood family is a bold primary color:
Jason = Green
Shawn = Blue
Lucy = Yellow
Shayne = Red
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I am very happy to see someone else pick up Micheal St. Star and RP as him, I've always wanted to see him in an efed. Thanks MG/Micheal Ragen. This is what I have come up with so far for his first SVR reincarnation since he was last seen on SVR09.

SVR2011's CAW mode won't let me re-color most of the WWE designs I used back then to make them orange again, but I think it's fairly faithful to the original version.


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St. Star's tag partner on my roster on SVR2009, Seth Owens. This guy really suffered from the tattoos being removed. Overall I'm finding it hard to put these guys' old attires together in general, whereas in previous games they would fly together. Not being able to do two sets of kneepads is a killer for me since 2010, but this year's layering system for things like gloves always over wrist bands, masks on top of hair really limits me. Help me BrienJ, let me hack these soon.
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[center][u][b]Yasha Onihime[/b][/u]
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Yasha = female demon or she-devil.
Onihime (Orihime) = In Japanese mythology it is the name of the goddess of the star Vega.

One half of my Japanese tag team, consisting of Yasha Onihime and Kazu Tagahashi.
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