
The game takes place 11 months after the '96 tournament, and covers the months prior to the '97 tournament and the tournament itself from an RPG-like point of view. I'm an actual scrub at fighting games, so if my post appears to appeal to the aesthetics and character volume of SNK, that's a great driving force as to why I like their games.Not an American user? Description The King Fighters of Kyo is a spin-off from SNK's successful fighting games that focuses on the series main character: Kyo Kusanagi. Bison in a few of the Street Fighter games), the use of bosses with bullshit gimmicks and conditions (Azazel in Tekken 6), while also usually linking their bosses in a way that I feel gives them a stronger purpose than other fighting games, even if the stories in games like this are usually still emulating the simple stage-to-stage approach of arcade games.

They're usually stylishly designed, tough as nails, input reading sadist fights, but when compared to other fighting games, they tend to rely much less on recurring villains as the boss in each game (like Shao Khan in Mortal Kombat, M. This is also another Hot Take, but I think these games have some of the coolest bosses in fighting games. You can also play modes that make it play like a traditional 1v1 fighting game too, so it attempts to accommodate the more traditional fighting game style, even if its larger play is found in being good with multiple characters. Some of the games include a fourth character on your team as an assist, some allow you to swap characters out mid match. On the gameplay side they mix it up too, as not every game follows the same 3v3 formula the same.


Capcom lineup, but it's all the companies owned characters. KoF largely focused on original, Art of Fighting, and Fatal Fury characters, but later entries have included characters as either playable or cameo appearances from SNK's various works. One of the things I like about KoF, and this might be a Hot Take, is that SNK has a crazy rich history of characters that the sheer volume makes playing their games appealing.
