-- PRESENTATION: WADO RYU JUJUTSU KEMPO KARATE JUTSU -- Wado Ryu Jujutsu Kempo and Wado Ryu Karate Jutsu were founded by Otsuka Hironori. He was a student of Nakayama Tatsusaburo Yukiyoshi, third Shihan of Shinto Yoshin Ryu Jujutsu. From July 1923, he starts training Karate, and creates an original style gathering both strong points of several Japanese schools and particular characteristics of Karate. At the beginning of the Showa period (late 20s), he completed the principles and techniques of Wado Ryu Karate Jutsu and Jujutsu Kempo. Nowadays, master Otsuka Hironori, third master of the school, took the name of the founder in his honor. The next successor at the head of the school should be Otsuka Kazutaka.
--- MUSIC --- All This by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) CC 3.0
Street Fighter 4 [Arcade] - play as Gouken
This is a play-through using Gouken in the Arcade version of Street Fighter 4. Read on below for more information...
Gouken is a hidden boss in the game. He is a non-selectable character in this version of it.
===== About Gouken ===== Gouken is Ryu and Ken's master, and is the older brother and former training partner of Akuma. Gouken and Akuma were students under master Goutetsu.
Before he made his debut into SF4, Gouken was the most talked about legendary character in Street Fighter... which was the result of a mistranslation in one of Ryu's winning quotes in SF2 regarding his Dragon Punch, calling it Sheng Long instead. This caused rumors of such a character existing in SF2, and even led to April Fools jokes created by EGM magazine, depicting him appearing in SF2:WW and SF3:NG with doctored screenshots. Rather interestingly, these April Fool's images directly influenced Gouken's official character design in SF4.
Gameplay-wise, Gouken doesn't really play like a typical shoto... you feel like he SHOULD do, but he doesn't. He also has Akuma's Somersault move, but with a slight difference.
===== Additional Information =====
---- If you complete single-player mode with him, the game will freeze and lock up. This is because he has no ending programmed in.
---- His portrait image can appear on the character select screen perfectly.
---- His Rival opponent is Ryu, and he is fought against on the Training Stage background.
===== Gouken Trivia =====
---- The Chinese symbol/kanji on the back of his costume literally means nothing or nought or nil.
---- The Japanese voice actor for Gouken previously voiced Ryu in SF3:3S.
---- Gouken's two Ultra Combos (post-SF4) appeared in SF3:3S as two of Ryu's Super Arts.
---- Early on before the Alpha series, Gouken was depicted in various media to have been slain by M.Bison. Then in the Alpha series, it was changed to him being slain by Akuma. And then in SF4, is was changed again to him having a duel with Akuma, but surviving it.
---- In the ports of the SF4 games, one of his obtainable player titles says AKA Sheng Long.
---- One of his win quotes is a reference to the original Ryu Sheng Long quote in SF2, in which Gouken states: You must defeat me to stand a chance.
===== About Arcade SF4 ===== This is the very first version of SF4 which officially debuted into the arcades in 2008. The roster of characters is somewhat small, but that is to be expected for the first game of the series. The console ports featured an extra 6 characters - as well as Seth and Gouken being made into unlockable playable characters.