Reposting this from the Vid thread, because I think it could be useful to future/potential Maxima Players.
He basically turned Maxima into Raiden! He made him nearly impossible to approach, changing the opponents gameplay style. He answered almost every jump-in with a fantastic anti-air throw. He had people afraid to approach him. He basically forced each opponent to play the game by a different set of rules than you would use aganist any other character, by exploiting his strengths in frustrating ways.
Just so many great moments! Auto-guarding invincible reversals, absorbing wakeup DPs, crossing up K' fantastic jump game, devouring No. 17's Shen Woo (I was suprised; he made it much harder for Shen to work than I expected!), using the buffed Guardpoints on stand
to totally throw off Raiden's jumping assaults, mixing people up so that they tried to reversal in the gaps of Block string ->
Vapor KANNUN...
It's a side of Maxima that we don't normally get to see in video, but it's all a very big part of his design. If you're willing to play risky, he can toss himself into situations that no other character makes sense in, and come out on top.
