Reception
Eddy has been often criticized for his too easy playability. In one article from MTV.com, they nicknamed him "Eddy 'Button-Masher's Savior' Gordo." BradyGames attributes his "masher" stigma to the character's "constantly shifting stances and unpredictable nature", but says that it only applies to casual play. It continues to say that at competitive levels, the random actions of button mashing" lead to heavy punishment more often than not." GameSpy included him as one of "The World's Worst Warriors", calling him such things as being a "cheating scumbag" and stating that "Eddy Gordo is the worst thing to happen to fighting gamers since repetitive strain injury." Eddy was listed by Now Gamer among the top 10 "most hated gamer characters ever", which called him and Ken "overly-powered and cheap", citing that for Eddy's command list it should only contain "pictures of both kick buttons" because mashing the kick buttons could give automatic wins to the player, and ended by calling Eddy, "a skilless-husk of a character."
In contrast, WeDoTech.net ranked him the second best fighting video game character of all time, stating that he was the best character in Tekken 3 and noting his break-dance styled moves as one of his best aspects. Gaming Target rated Eddy second on the list of top 11 Tekken fighters, citing his moveset as one of his best aspects, as "his moves are more alluring to watch than anyone in Tekken" and calling him the most stunning character in Tekken 3 for his "break-dancing-like attacks." GamesRadar listed a match-up between Eddy and Dee Jay among the 12 match-ups they would like want to see in Street Fighter X Tekken. Complex ranked Eddy as the ninth "Most Acrobatic Character in Video Games". Complex also ranked him at 17th on their "50 Most Dominant Fighting Game Characters" list, commenting "You either think this dancing brawler is the greatest thing to happen to Tekken or you think he's the cheesiest character in the entire series".
Read more about this topic: Eddy Gordo
Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)