Wait. But. Iori shouldn't have ever lost his flames. Right? Unless everyone still remembers what happened during the Ash Saga? Somehow?
Iori's XIII showed Iori making a choice about that while Vice and Mature commented on it and watched - between them being dead, returned from the dead and bound to Orochi, maybe they're sufficiently distant from the physical reality of things to be able to witness stuff like the Ash reboot from the outside, in a way.
Anywho, people in Chat thought Love Heart sounded like Romi Park. It'd be pretty awesome to finally have the voice of Edward Elric, Naoto from Persona, and Loran Cehack from Gundam in the KOFverse. I've always liked Kaori Horie's Yuri, I never though she sounded younge or anything... just... like Yuri, since she's been her voice since AoF2. Everyone's missing or shifted the nuances I'm used to from over the years... but guess that just means I'll have to hopefully find new ones to love.
I recall reading that Love Heart in her source games shares a voice actress with Capcom's Ruby Heart, curiously.
if you want to hear Love's original voice to compare, this channel has a lot of scenes from those pachislot games:
https://www.youtube.com/user/meemeeshion
There's a lot of cool stuff in there, despite the odd names - I bet the devs hated to have to bind that to that particular kind of game...
Wow, really? Do fans really have to ask?
The question is, through each channels is SNK actually listening?... Twitter never replies, not sure how much attention they pay to their Facebook accounts...
I guess I might really have to preoder digital to get that Geese skin despite already preordering physical.. then again, I've bought PXZ2 both physical and digital for similar reasons...
Not surprised at "No plans for a PC/Steam release". Would be a bad move to announce one now while they are focusing all the hype on the console release.
That said, I'm expecting it sometime after release!
It would be in really poor form to announce a Steam release in a panel where you have a Sony guy that bothered to cosplay as Chang.
Hearing Udon is helping with the artbook is great. Real quality product, not just some cheesy pack-in bonus.
I really hope they make the book available at a later time - I am not preordering 2 physical versions on account of being on the "wrong" continent to get certain bonuses...
Legacy controller support sounds great too. SNK X LabZero Driver? That requires actually communication between them, right? XD Did MikeZ talk to them about Netcode during the time? LoL.
Lab Zero has expressed some will in the past of working on an SNK game, although SNK themselves have never mentioned Lab Zero publically that I know of...
-There will be something in the story people won't expect.
Not sure about that, considering the multiverse stuff implied by the leak's statements on the final boss and the Another World team, not to mention other speculations from the fandom.
Speaking of which, it's interesting how Tung finally appears to have an apprentice that fights somewhat like him for once, based on what I've seen of Meitenkun.
If they were to make a twist of this, next thing you know Meitenkun could actually be past Tung (i read somewhere that's not supposed to be his real name...), on account of crazy time/multiverse shennanigans...
Anyway, looking forward to what they have in mind for the story.
I like to think that Mai getting series, as in, not on public displays for tournaments, could be a force to be reckoned with indeed - replace the fans with blades, apply actual stealth, and the difference might be like the Flash racing Superman for charity and doing it for real...
Could you imagine if it retconned Sylvie into having been on NESTS team back in 2001 instead of K9999
That seems like Nameless' role - I wonder if the ex-NESTS character will name him, and/or misremembering any details that make him seem closer to K9999...