The artist mimicking Shinkiro's style for the XIV designs are doing a great job.
While speaking of great art, the ending art for KoF 2003, XI, and XIII are all really great. When you compare the crazy quality of their ending / bonus arts to what's currently in SFV, it's like night and day. SNKP put a LOT of high quality work into the art of those years, and it's a shame they don't get more recognition for it.
SNK need to make Botan playable, girl is cooler than most of the regulars:
I had a hope during KoF XIII's release that she'd replace Chizuru for the modern saga, except that instead of using Mirror clones, she'd use characters she's controlling with her puppeteers strings. Would be a great way to get use out of characters like Rose, Rimello, Shroom, or any or the Those From the Past / Hisoku members who'd never get into the game otherwise.
Would be like having a Naruto Puppet Master character in a 2D fighter... it'd be pretty unique for KoF.
this person with the spear. sorry if it's obvious who this is and what their role is going forward...for KoF games I only have KoF 95, 98 (reg MVS & UM), 00 (MVS), 02 (reg MVS & UM), and XIII. Might grab the ps1 version of 99 for Vita if it's good.
Yeah, as mentioned, that's Shion. He killed Magaki at the end of KoF XI too, and then presumably made off with the body as well afterwards. It'd be interesting to see the prettiest of pretty boys come back some day, though I think he's more of an agent of later parts of the story, for now. Similar to how Vice and Mature ALWAYS keep the Orochi story relevant, even when very few other threads from the plot stick around.
A special intro between the two at the very least is a must.
Definitely hope so! Need some Rera tribute colors too, while we're at it!
'Those form the past' is the most uninspired translation ever, but those guys really should've become playable.
I mean just LOOK AT THEM, you had Mukai and his gang all in the swaggest robes and clothes ever.
Full on gangsta yo! And they are relegated to story cutscenes.
That's one of the good things about going 3D, it'd be a lot easier to stick them into the game now.
It's great how many past KoF threads COULD be linked to these approaching characters. Good quality picture too, better than the other that's floating around out there!
Feels kind of exciting that every story thread that's been loose for the past Decade or so might start getting some fresh development, eh?
Still no news about Athena?
The only news from the leak is that her outfit was possibly going to look like this recolored KoF XI art:
Other than that... Chin is our first Psycho Soldier to show up, so she and Kensou might be announced sooner rather than later. People are also hoping Kim gets shown since the next showing on the 20th of this month is in Korea.
