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An image of Ryu from Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, except modded with fancy shaders - holding up his fist with a determined expression, his teeth bared.

Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite (MVCI) is getting a remaster—but not from Capcom. Asannounced onTwitter, popular fighting game community YouTuber and streamer Maximillian Miles Christensen (Maximilian Dood) is commissioning a modder to create a complete top-to-bottom overhaul of the 2017 fighter’s visual style, and hot damn is it an improvement.

“We’re in the early stages, with only a couple days of tinkering, but already the results are absolutely incredible,” Christensen writes, linking to a quote tweet of some of Ryn’s current WIPs.One screenshot in particulartook off among the MVCI community, showing a cel-shaded, gorgeous-looking Ryu giving Spider-Man a Shoryuken what-for.

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A post that reads: “made some dramatic changes to the cel shader, with a halftone effect and some crazy highlights” followed by an image of Ryu hitting Spider-Man very hard.

“Did you change the direction of the lighting? You can do that?” writes oneastounded commenter, to which Ryn answers: “Yeah, I can change af*cktonof things”—presumably while wearing a pair of sunglasses.

Christensen would later upload arundown of the projectto his YouTube channel, which tells us more about how the mod snowballed into the ambitious remaster it’s quickly becoming. Initially the two were just trying stuff out, but very rapidly realised that “it got to a point where [I said] this is looking so good I can’tnotpay you … she’s done so much work on the engine that it’s flabbergasting.”

As for why he’s paying out of pocket, “spending thousands of my own dollars to effectively mod games that will never net met a return? I simply do it, number one, because I care, and I think the effort of a lot of people needs to be compensated in some way.”

Christensen adds that after the images above went viral, he had a flood of interest from other modders who he’ll “not be able to talk about probably ever in the future—but a lot of people showed up and were like ‘I wanna help’ … ‘I wanna do art, I wanna do music’.“Speaking to IGN, Ryn herself says that “the most challenging part was figuring out the changes Capcom made to the rendering engine,” but that “it feels incredible seeing the hard work pay off.”

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An image of a modded Ryu in MVCI holding up his fist in victorious style.

(Image credit: @maximilian_ on Twitter/X / Capcom)

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Ryu from MVCI with modded shaders strikes a pose.

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Modded Ryu from MVCI strikes a post, his fist glowing in victorious light.

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Ryu strikes a fierce blow against his opponent in MVCI, modded with fancy shaders.

It’s all he can do to sing her praises: “It’s crazy to have someone who knows how Unreal Engine 4 to a tee where I’m just like ‘hey, can we change the colour of the rim lighting? How does that look?’ And it’s done in like 30 minutes.” As for future plans, Christensen says he wants “to find an art style that effectively feels good, and then we can start applying it to the rest of the roster

“Ryn is a god. The amount of know-how they have, and the amount of things I was like shooting her direction, and getting immediate responses to? It’s absolutely wild how fast things were even coming online … I cannot f*cking wait.”

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