Totally disagree with that statement for reasons I've stated earlier
Ryo's animations are much more authentic to me... only when SF3 came out did capcom try to make sense of ken / ryu's fighting style through the CPS3 chip's powerful new animation range... alpha series sprites did a decent job.. but SF3 is what made their style believable, IMO
there is also the matter of considering basic fighting strikes as 'copying'
i.e. jab, roundhouse, snap kick, uppercut, axe kick ... they're generic strikes even outside of gaming
only place I can see you coming from is the dumb dragon punch... (zanretsuken is great anti-air.. so uppercut is not needed) that was really just another luxury move that, if removed, wouldn't affect the game at all...
I think dragon punching in general is some popular japanese thing... goku did it to broly in DBZ as well... I personally prefer more creative approaches like rising tackle... but DP is classic in its own right
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Ryo is Ryu with Ken colored hair and Robert is Ken with Ryu colored hair. And if you wanna take it even further, at one time Robert was ken, with Ryu's gi and Ryo was Ryu with Ken's gi.
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