The intro is the one that hits home for me. They changed Kyo's fight style once again and if I remember correctly it focuses less on projectiles as if resenting his fire. It was also the goodbye of him as a protagonist, simply beautiful track.

@@VLikaru It was definitely a weird moveset for sure. The rekkas are there but not as prominent and he now has a sort of charge up/counter move.

not only that this is also the song when he was replaced by k dash which he pass the torch to k dash

Jesus. you UNDASTAND. (Beni always lookin' out for his buds; and worried. "Swish Face" be damned.)

Everytime I end up in this video, I come here for your comment. It sets the vibe perfectly for me. Weird stuff, but hey, thanks!

no that was "Goodbye Esaka"

Robbie Straschewski well put 👍 team Japan all day!!!!

Passing the torch to K'

:(

It’s ok he took the torch back after the NESTs arc lol

yooo? doom wads always be flexing radicool midis i recall there's a midi of this song on a site called "dokidoki" something

@ShoHidari it's always funny all of the years playing skulltag/zandronum of so many single player and multi-player wads and found so many songs from so many games I never knew. Like a lot of Megaman x games. Or discovering Dragonforce from a old rocket jumping map in midi form. It's amazing xD

damn, holy shit that fucking rules i'm happy for you hell yeah

I love it when you are on a quest for that special midi track or piece of music you heard that one time from random game or crack etc, then you finnaly find it, its like THE best kinda scratch to and never ending itch

bruh

Hex Maniac greatest fight intro ever

Yeah I love his intro sequence in 99

You could say aside from starting anew, you could say he wants to put himself differently after being aware of his clones.

@Dong Phan Because of his new style,i guess,or maybe to symbolize a "New Kyo".

@@ccccklmrun8868 It's to differentiate himself from the clones, he all had head bands. That or he wanted to not get involved with high school.

Meus pêsames. A música tem um certo saudosismo na melodia mas também passa um espírito de luta, de continuar trilhando o caminho com garra e coragem apesar das tristezas da vida.

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Makes sense because this phase of the Kyo nests is a little bit gothic

Historia tocante, isso passa... ele está em um lugar melhor agora... e que raro um fã de kof br

Deus o tenha, parceiro.

you telling me got damn Kusanagi is the Jewel of SNK 😭

add Kyo before Kusanagi man

now it's Rock Howard.

Rock Howard is my fav

LOLxHP-Principal Alicinia I look forward to a bout with you.....

I disagree, I think his 2003 design is the best.

@@yurionedge2199 i disagree, nests design imo is vastly superior

@@RandomGuy93543 I strongly disagree on that.

@@yurionedge2199 yes, 2003 is hands down his best design, so good it was reused on XI XII XIII and now XV

@@davetorres3906 He actually had a slightly different outfit in XII and XIII

You described it perfectly!!!

Considering Kyo is not entering Smash, so yeah Esaka is all we can got. Plus, Sakurai is leaning more to Iori than Kyo.

@@lucaswibisono1316 I dunno about that, Sakurai is definitely an Iori fan, but music-wise we got ESAKA!! ('96 remix from '02UM), Esaka Continues, and Yappari ESAKA. Iori themes only got Stormy Saxophone 2 but it's a brand new Smash remix so maybe that counts just as much. I mostly just meant it as a "no tears, only dreams now" joke reference.

I see. Yeah, its weird how Iori only got one music and that's only his 96 theme.

Real TEARS.....

@@BronzeAgePepper i would prefer Tears instead of YappariESAKA

you can say that agin

arashi no saxophone 2 >>>>> (its personal)

Couldn't use any word to describe how I agree on it anymore...

@@nabell2032 Tch, an Iori fanboy.

@@noahkeenan2021 i changed my mind😎 goodbye esaka >>>

Now, tears for the end of the World...

@@rayitodeluna5246 yeah...i don't think that the world will gonna end for a virus...

@@greynolander i wish

if it did that would be very sad in a humiliating way

The world going to end not by corona virus, but by the vaccine producers , I don’t trust in this new vaccine they gonna give us ...

Hehe, Moetaro.

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What do you mean by pun?

Gamer AnimeTV "Burning rage within his heart"... You should get it xD

I don't get it still... please do explain it to me....😊

I think same bro

BILOSzX me too

Sendy Lie Its because when this year happend Kyo was kidnapped and experimented on by NESTS and thats where all the clones came from. I feel this song is not only his sadness but his building rage towards everything plus the lose of his flames really hits him hard so he developed 524 Shiki: Kamukura- (A forbiden technique, I'm going on off all the chinese comic I got as well so I might be wrong XD) Regardless it's a great theme and shows lots of emtion

Nigel Blackman this explains why k' had a similar flames to kyo, as nests put kyo's dna into k.

There you go the reason of the title: 'Tears'.

You mean the time when their current producer was still a programmer? I still think there's room for improvement, but SNK is BACK, baby!!!

One of the best things EVER😭 so many good memories come to my mind.

*manly crying* damn right..... :'3

We can all have mame and roms hehe.

Hellbelial you still suck yagami

Final Burn Alpha for life MAME is awesome, but I've always preferred FBA for Neo Geo stuff.

Daniel Fuller answer this can I get buriki one and kizuna encounter on fba?

Kizuna Encounter, yes. Buriki One, no. Just about any classic Neo Geo game you want, with or without patches and mods, working flawlessly, yes. It's been a while since I gave MAME a go and maybe things are different, but ever since I tried SVC Hyper Chaos in MAME and then in FBA, I've been a believer.

Yeah, it's also Arc related... cause they're supossed to be missing though

100% I understand that SNK wanted to pass the torch to a new protagonist but outright removing Kyo and Iori was pretty ballsy and wouldn't have worked out well (considering the reception of 99s location tests which didn't have either character avaliable) Having these characters as secret bosses is the perfect way to demonstrate Kyo as the 'old guard', the original hero who's on a personal journey while testing the new kids along the way to see if they are worthy to carry the torch

Segundo a revista que eu tinha, os dois iam serem removidos, mas, a SNK pensou demais nesta possibilidade, então e apenas, os afastaram do Host Principal inicialmente e dificultaram nossas vidas pra habilitar, tanto que raramente, eu encontrava máquinas, só com o Iori habilitado. Vim a jogar com o Kyo em KOF99, no Playstation 1, no Arcade, nunca.

🔥

❤

Benimaru: "saa main evento!" That other guy in the back ground just like... could i should i.. do the unh's & yea's! Ooh.. iori's gonna kill me.

Lightning Bolt shut uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup omg

this is timeless. one of the best songs in gaming history. period.

try 2018. revisiting and it killed me lol

***** no olvide Blaze de KOF 2003

Goodbye Esaka Is Arguably A Great Song to Kyo But i Would Listen To Esaka Sometimes

And 94 esaka remake from kof 98.

@Call Me *MC* esaka forever is criminally underrated along with funky Esaka.

*****​ That was kinda what I meant. 

+Arche-Type Earth I agree. I think this music reflects the moment they're experiencing. They knew the company was doing very bad and that the end was near. For me, this music represents the company's hard times , it has nothing to do with the kyo's story.

Good news: SNK just went back to its original SNK name and plans to revive other series.

Roldan Celestino REALLY?!

Plus many of the original programmers of Art of Fighting and Fatal Fury worked in KOF XIV. In other words, good ol' SNK is back, bro.

i think there's more great themes out there.... like control crisis

Fairy is the best one.

In the CG Animated KOF Series "KOF Destiny" they use a different rendition of this song for the credits and it's still beautifully handled. :)

NeoJax I'd say it's still this one. Don't know another character theme that fits their personality, makes fighting feirce, but also conveys strong emotions. The original Neo Geo Performance Group knew exactly what they were doing.

OROCHI CYS was the best.

+tokyobassist Je je yeah its from esaka... its kind nostalgic

Lol it was the very first thing that made me dig this one

Did you realize that this motif in a slightly lower key can represent Kyo growing, maturing and leaving behind those school boy years?

@@NegoClau even if he is forever a school boy~

These guys really put some effort on making this music i read that for them this was really a nostalgic end of an era thats why they give the best composing and playing this ast.

nekomarulupin KD-0079*

Wendler Christian Soares shin kyo kusanagi 😊

bien dicho

Ludovick Lubérisse really? To me it's more about real sadness and anger, rage.

"Shit...I'm like Beni, now--can't close my hands.....well, my right one--good thing that's my punching hand..."

Lastima que de Kof 99 a la 2002 fuera reemplazado por K'. Igual, los 2 son de lo mejorcito en cuanto a protagonistas.

@@onecaleb9741 (Y despues aparentemente por Ash?)

Y ahora Shun'ei

Kevin Fonseca Shun’ei es un asco

@@onecaleb9741 2002 no tiene protagonismo es solo aniversario

Nothing Toxic y ahora un feliz 2018 🤘🏻

Nothing Toxic Koferos? Wtf, queda raro, igual, feliz año!

Se viene el Kof xv :3

@@blanqui3730 y ahora un feliz 2019 🤘

@@@felix8e729 Jajaja :0 quien lo diria, los años pasan y estas rolas siguen sonando en mi vida

He redeemed himself though after he and Iori defeated Igniz.

Por qué triste bro,que pasa con Kyo después ?

​@@Tumamagringa1Verlo en solitario es triste, y que queme su banda muestra un claro simbolismo, además que eran tiempos oscuros para SNK

And he's a fucking headache in expert mode.

I’d be so on board for DLC bonus tracks

Goodbye esaka is a good track but this song is legendary

We need it to be this arranged version too

Yes , it's true .

We almost had it 😭

@@Dvariak we almost had it but then Terry said "BUSTAH WOLF!"

You know guys Terry don't deserve the theme of esaka,that is not even his theme it belongs to kyo,they just don't respect kyo

@@pao-ulul7475 I don't really think respect is the problem here bud.

Mike Inrigan Well, his spirit is there along with his cameo in the KoF stadium. The Terry pack has a lot of huge respect for everything SNK, especially the other KoF characters. And hey, I’ll rather take it over Kyo (I wanted him in anyways, but I’m happy regardless for SNK).

K' 😉

​@@ClintSky-ee8xbKyo the best

​@@Pedro-yj3usAs you say, Kid 😂

​@@ClintSky-ee8xb and now they both also Ash own team legendary heroes

Ditto. I've seen all many protagts. They all lack the charisma that Kyo has.

Kkkk precisa ser tanto assim ? Chegar a esse ponto ?

@@sabedoriaelazer1030 ????? Tá carente?

And wear it backs in kof 15 😂.. They should at least gave the clones this outfit rather than wearing the original outfit.

Strider Reborn Well this theme is a hybrid of Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest, Dream Theater and Deep Purple.

What

@@stainedclassv0114 No, it's not.

Ok

For those in the FGC, at least...

Cause he want to give us a proof that he's not a clone and that he's the real we all know 😢 First time i played KOF 99,i remember i was very sad that my favourite KOF charchter kyo wasn't in the roster and then i played with hero team with K' and when i beated krizled then i was socked cause kyo showed up and i beated him then i find him in the main roster. Oh those days can't comeback 🙄😔

it is top 10 imo

he was pretty broken in kof 99 with the auto parry (HCB+LK)

don't know why they removed it and never give him that move again

Jogaço! Jogo desde 94 nos fliperamas. E agora continuo na versão mobile, que é extremamente viciante, Kof 98 um ol. E força sempre!!

agreeee

kof 13 is awesome

awantaaaa

Grande, Adelheid.

jaja

es gracioso por que es verdad :"v

se la quito el clon con sus memorias y quedo como que umm wacha sayy

jajaja si es cierto

xd

En 2021 👌🏼👌🏼

creo yo su principal falla fue el haberse estancando con los mismos personajes, bien pudo seguirlos conservando y mejorando como lo venia haciendo pero la verdad debió continuar agregando mas de sus franquicias pues esa fue la escencia de kof el hacer un torneo de peleadores de sus videojuegos. es decir el crossover fue lo que realmente nos deslumbro y de pronto dejo de hacer.

De hecho fue Kof 2000 el ultimo juego de snk antes de declararse en banca rota,por eso wl tema de Kyo se llama Good bye esaka.

Oh god. I can see what you must do at night. >////

Considere o fato de que ele foi capturado e submetido a experimentos científicos/biológicos, tudo isso durante sua inconsciência. Isso certamente acrescenta tristeza no que você falou.

porra, exato, sensação de tristeza, mas sei lá, não uma tristeza de coisa ruim, mas tipo, sei la, igual falaram ai acima, essa musica parece q expressa a sensacao ruim q td mundo ficou qndo kof deixou de ser kof e foi pra mao dos koreias. parece q marca o fim da era de ouro

Essa musica foi feita pra representar o fim da SNK. E 2001 quando declararam falencia.

Um sensação de ( foi bom em quanto durou) triste porém linda. Épica

A primeira vez que eu ouvi essa musica, eu não sabia da história do Kyo no ano de 99 ,mas dava pra imaginar que não era algo bom, pela sensação de tristeza da música . A introdução dele queimando a faixa que usava na cabeça por anos me fez imaginar que, pela música e essa atitude, ele teria se tornado alguma espécie de anti-herói ou vilão que não queria /podia lembrar mais o passado ou ficar perto dos antigos amigos ou que estava buscando novos rumos e queria permanecer sozinho.... Por mais que hoje eu saiba a história, eu sempre imagino algum tipo de “ mudança “ , solitude e busca por novos rumos... Aliás, o nome dela “ lágrimas “ me faz imaginar aquela sensação quando sentimos nostalgia e nosso passado não volta mais , mas mesmo assim devemos nos manter firmes por um propósito, mesmo que sozinhos diante da solidão e dificuldade .