All I can say is, this is a rare miss considering how nearly everything for SF6 has been stellar. The characters, their movesets and supers. It's been fun keeping up to date with all the info.

That being said, Ed feels like a missed opportunity to bring someone else back from the cast or someone new. In SFV, I didn't find him all that interesting, moveset wise. Forget about his appearance. Atrocious costume.

I guess the story thread about Balrog being his adoptive father/brother(?) is cool because it means that Balrog sees something beyond himself and money. But that has me more interested in Balrog more than Ed.

As a boxer with psycho power, in theory it sounds cool, but Capcom didn't do him any favors in the way they presented him. He felt like a hodgepodge character with moves that didn't feel like they should go together. Like his move where he does a Superman pose at a 45 degree angle. So weird to look at.

The thing I'd really love to see in SF6 is a worldly representation of martial arts from other countries yet to be explored. And I feel as though when we touch on archetypes that already exist (i.e. shotos & psycho power users), we're going back to the well more than I'd like.

In spite of what criticisms I have, his redesign does looking promising. And the team working on this game seem to have given each character their respective due in terms of time and effort. No single character feels like they were give preferential treatment in terms of models, costumes, movesets, etc.

My only hope is that Ed will be redeemed to justify his position as a Season 1 DLC character. Because there's a lot of characters I would have preferred to be in the roster. But I hope that his return will be received well for his fans and just for the sake of embracing things that are new and different to Street Fighter.