Why play Mugen?

A recent example of this would be for me is having Link (Zelda) wear a cape like Marth/Roy in that it would make Link look more like a classic Hero and Knight rather than an elf which I always felt was a little disappointing for me in the zelda games. You would think that a knight in armor or some kind of royal or warrior like attire would be doing all this heroic stuff in a story like this where a medieval hero saves a princess but instead we always play as a well known commoner in green.

I just felt like he could have been just a little more rugged and tougher looking.  

So this is sorta why I like mugen in this example in that it allows me to create Link (Zelda) in a way where I can really personalize him like in those other games where you can modify or enhance your fighters.



Another example for me would be not just visual changes but personality changes. I did a MegaManX character and I really liked the older aged western American megaman from the judge spears cartoon rather than the oriental astroboy knockoff. For me megaman needed to find his own identity and that really can't happen in the old MegaMan games because he's basically astroyboy's clone in almost every way in that series. In MegaManX series the character made a positive change in that he finally became different from astroboy by appearing for the first time as an adult like robot (or android rather but it depends) which in my opinion finally gave him an identity of his own.

I liked the judge spears version because MegaMan was older and it changed his personality from kid to young adult. The east kept megaman cute but the west made him a dude. (the east has a bad habit of making boys look like girls      )

So with mugen, again, I could finally have MMX as the more original/masculine/mature incarnation that I could not get from the past games at that time.

Another reason why I like mugen editing is that you can make the rules when making a fighter. I did a Samus character and as a fighter a character like this doesn't typically use a jump button but mugen allowed me to make Samus play like her snes side-scrolling shooter counterpart which in my opinion makes Samus fight even better than a typical 6 button fighter in that a 6 button fighter is unable to reproduce the effectiveness of a shooter based character which relies on using their environment to wall climb and wall jump to effectively fight off a foe or quick dashing and dodging which a shooter needs to do since shooters usually don't attack well at close distances.