I actually do like Pretty Big, not just because of her design but also because of her name and her disco moves.
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If I could get a Lady Maxima spin off dev’d by Platinum, that would be really great
Lady Kim is like 3 characters of erasure.
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How long until they start going for the real deep cuts in this game and start grabbing characters from like Maximum Impact and Howling Blood?
imagine, a lady taekwondo practitioner
I seriously thought there was a third.
well…
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Hey, May Lee is in this game! She even got an event version!
They also just added a guy named Rudy.
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That’s definitely what @Rudie looks like in my mind’s eye so good job SNK, except for the “y”
More info next week.
it seems like a lot of animation from xiv is being reused so maybe the character roster will indeed be unnecessarily ginormous. looks a lot like xiv in general, just with better texture work.
I’m not sure there was any other way to maintain such a large roster without just updating their existing assets. It looks fine, although it’s got kind of similar way of shadowing the characters as SamSho. I’d like to see what it actually looks like in gameplay rather than just the cinematic cut-ins. Nothing really wows me about it’s aesthetic choices though. It definitely feels like a continuation of KOF14. At least it’s nice and bright.
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Them highlighting rollback in the 2002UM announcement really makes me hope XV has it otherwise this game might as well not exist
Yeah, I got scared for a second because it wasn’t in the trailer itself. So we’ll see. At least it wasn’t a dirty word.
I think I just want a KOF with a really strong, striking visual identity. Don’t just be anime, but really go for something. I think there was talk earlier on in the thread about the grungy feel of the NESTs saga and I’d like to be able to say the new game has its own feel. SNK probably wasn’t equipped for that back during KOF14 but I think they probably have a handle on things now. Maybe re-using assets limits how much you can really change about how everything looks, but I want to be able to look at it and go “Yeah, that’s KOF XV.”
I want a KOF again where something like this can be the key art (Hiroaki’s recent Buriki One art series is awesome).
Also please give Ryo the beard in XV. No beard no buy.
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Actually the biggest news is Obari is back to animate a short.
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Kind of hate how they seem to be going the SFV route of not giving a shit about clipping judging by Leona’s hair in her super activation animation!
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A lot of the XIV newcomers got sometimes an unwarranted amount of shit but did anybody like this specific boy?
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He’s a tired boy, which makes him exceedingly relatable. My favorite? Not at all, but there’s enough characters that he doesn’t need to be.
I do wonder, though, if Tung will remain the third character in their team, now that they’re more assertively marking Shun’ei’s team as this arc’s Hero Team. His inclusion in XIV seemed like a bit of a hedge.