Isn't there like a hundred costumes in Maximum Impact 2 as well.
So SNK simply doing dozen or so costumes to use for Athena's Psycho 14 move, if she has it that is. Doesn't seem like much in comparison.
I remember doing the math before, and counting all the retextures, it's like 360 or something. They're a bit fast and lose with some things, sure, and some costumes reuse textures and such, but it's still a crazy achievement.
Since KOF XIV is using 3D character models, it makes me wonder how they are going to handle alternates anyways. I wonder if will be just a stock selection of different colors, or do they plan to do the Maximum Impact 2 thing with completely different costumes entirely.
Street Fighter IV also did something similar with different costumes too.
I hope SNK plans to announce a release date soon, I need to plan my game purchases to make sure I'll have enough funds to fit in KOF XIV.
That's one of the cool things about the graphics being a bit simplier in some ways; they can probably afford to go a bit nuts on things other make overly-complicated. I hope they're full of graphic tricks just like KoF XIII, giving characters leggings of different lengths, removing jackets for certain "colors", putting logos on shirts that were previously just 1 color, making tops and bottoms that were the same color in one costume different in others (Hello Ryo, Kim!), etc.
As for a release date... hm. Maybe they'll start narrowing it down from "sometime this year" to "some time in X quarter" and such, soon. KoF is much like Tobal 2 was for me: One of the few things I'd get rid of other games to ensure I'd get this one. (The times I've traded in games from my own collection can probably be tallied on a single hand.)
