good god this holds up too much

@@jahimalnar7978 Are you talking about the upcoming NFT KOF game right?

@@lienneville969 THE FUCKING WHAT

@@freshmadgod MY SAME REACTION.

@@lienneville969 the HUH?!

It's funny because the parallels are uncanny.

There are actually several surprising parallels between those two franchises.

​@@fightingmedialounge519​Yeah. I always felt like in general, SNK and SEGA share a similar energy. Heck, in Sonic Heroes, Sonic, Tails and Knuckles are named Team Hero just like the characters in KOF (Japanese version only though).

@@sehtuk3953 I was more so talking about sonic and kof specifically( I even made a post on reddit about how the second sonic movie oddly is a more accurate adaptation of the first few kof games than the actual Hollywood movie). Your point about companies is still fairly sound.

@@sehtuk3953 I agree. Sonic Adventure 1 = Orochi saga. Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Heroes = NESTS saga, Shadow the hedgehog = 2002 um, Sonic 2006 and Sonic Unleashed = Tales of Ash saga, Sonic Lost World = XIV, and Sonic Frontiers = XV.

i'd really like to know why did you specifically pick 95 and 01, not complaining but just curious.

@@No-mn9do eBay availability partially. I also wasn't sure at the time which was the last one on MVS Hardware. 95 I wanted because of the Saturn port and how it was handled.

Both 95 and 2001 have done very interesting/fun mechanics. 2001 shakes up a fair bit, while still feeling KOF and 95’s sheer SPEED is what keeps me coming

Oh... so now it's time to watch SNKronize in the UltraChen chanel =D

It’s been nice to see new fans coming in. I always loved KOF even though the franchise was a roller coaster of good and bad. The designs always spoke to me a lot more than the ones from Street Fighter

Idk why but the Iori Mug detail just makes me smile

🥺

I wonder why kof is popular in other countries but not usa. Maybe because of preferences or marketing?

​@@carissaap7003 no team USA

@@JesusMunoz-zi7hw there was the American sports team and even then, this team of fighters are a joke equivalent to a punching bag.

DON'T give them idea's.

He's Maximillian Dude. There is no Thorgi

@@DURIEL1eah, let’s not. Especially now. I rather for someone else to make a series off of KoF than have Netflix outright butchering or putting the entire series on day one to watch ruining it.

@@dantekirenryu980 Indeed, TrashFlix is really good at butchering things people love, looking at you woke Resident Evil and Cowboy Beflop.

@@DURIEL1and the Witcher….

He's getting his own manga at least

Hey until shingo comes back in kof 15. Simply buy kof 2002 ultimate and kof 98 ultimate match for shingo. Fun fact shingo was one of the most broken OP characters in the game at the highest level of competitive tournaments.

I love Sakura but she is a rip off of yuri. Yuri is a just adorable, And when I use her I always feel like the under dog and have everything to prove to win, And I love trolling finishing my opponents with her command grab slap move, which capcom ripped off with poison. Who actually does the slaps better with more impact and better animations

Correction Sakura is capcom's yuri

For all of those pointing out that Yuri was first, Thank you. I came here to say the same thing. Everything else the original poster posted, cool story bro. (I mean it, even down to the birthday. That's pretty cool!)

But PS2 sold better than Xbox, although Xbox got second place that generation.

@@DARS_04. Doesn't matter; That's still gonna piss people off. It also was a bad move considering SNK needed to break into the Western market at that time; Dropping the American made console when they still couldn't get a good foothold in North America was a huge mistake on top of the other mistakes that they made such as putting the cart before the horse with 5 MI sequels announced before the second game even released. I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure dropping the American made console for a sequel to a decently selling 3D fighting game when you're trying to get a foothold in North America goes in line with one of the stupidest decisions in the history of the business world.

Nope, the PS2 install base was bigger theb both NCG and Xbox combined. It was enough for all other games on it.

@@jonatassilva2605 and? Does not change a thing

@@jonatassilva2605 that doesnt matter at all. Say you were going to sell 50k on PS2 and 20K on Xbox. Making it exclusive to Ps2 may have changed the minds of a few people who had both systems so maybe youd have sold 52K or something, but then youd still be missing out on the 18k sales of the people who only wouldve bought it on Xbox. For someone trying to grow their brand it was a huge mistake. Its not like its a situation where they were popular enough to get exclusivity deals and have people activley buy systems for their games. They just lost out on sales.

_looks at Touhou Hisoutensoku_ yeah pretty much

Maximum impact series had some of the best original characters, the game was a mess technically speaking compared to the frantic mainline kof games, and terribly bad with collision detection and smoothness in comparison to street fighter 2, street fighter alpha series and stf third strike and later street fighter games. Despite all that Maximum impact Regulation A the best maximum impact game only released in japan. Kof nerds like me made for dang sure to cop the import copy years ago. Maximum impact series is hugely underrated and dismissed by the majority of FGC sadly. Me and my homie played the hell outta this game for hours 2 months ago. And we enjoyed it. It is broken and fun as fuck mess. But surprisingly flows together nicely. Long live King of fighters and FGC for centuries to come.

@@MuhammadAli-xw4yc I feel like if Maximum Impact 2 didn't exist, SNK would have put all of their energy and time in making King of Fighters 12 a better game. Thus the game would have sold better. Cause by the time KOF 13 came out it was too late.

I think the best route if SNK were to bring some of the Maximum Impact characters into the mainline King of Fighters series would merely be either stage cameos or team ending cameos. I don't think putting them in as playable characters would have much of a positive impact beyond a small fraction of the playerbase.

@@orangeslash1667. You say that, but let's be honest with ourselves: Maximum Impact 2 was inevitably going to exist after the first raked up 100,000 copies in North America. The rest of SNK's games weren't even getting close to that number, so when Maximum Impact 2's global sales ended up being about 80% less of Maximum Impact 1's North American sales, they obviously entered full blown panic mode because their hot new IP was on the path to disaster. (Probably shouldn't have labeled it's North American version as KOF 2006, then, dumbasses!)

@@dragonbornexpress5650 True it's just that 12 felt that it was SNK's one shot to make KOF's look cool for Americans and they blew it due to terrible online and a Small roster compared to say Blazeblue. KOF 12 was very rushed and it needed more time. So I'm asking is it because of the 3d KOF games that SNK couldn't afford to send any money to delay 12, since they send a lot time on the New sprites????

thing is if you check his modern portfolio he ACTUALLY improved on that, and KoFMI2 was his first time for him making a game and he had alot to keep an eye over for that which was hard for him, heck I appluad that despite all this and being just a programming debugger he did create something special, not the most polished or competitive viable but like Thorgi said: "Fun stupid". And I always appreciate KoFMI2 for that, plus the huge amount of fan service plus single player content which I still havent beaten (hard missions and the 200 battles survival mode are so tough and exhausting) in all these years.

Imagine if Falcoon and Nomura team up for a game.

@@Evilriku13 Yep. Falcoon has improved a lot since then. Personally speaking, I love many of the alternate costume from the MI games. Mai and Lien's alt costumes being my absolute favorites Short hair Mai is best Mai ❤🖤🔥 Should return. Others like Chae Lim, Ninon, Mignon, Ralf, Blue Mary, K', Iori, Jenet, Billy and Xiao Lon have great alt. costumes imo

@@izigurusumardi8934 i feel like there's a reverse chrono trigger joke in there

nah, Nomura is a terrible designer and gane director

Yes that was in 2003, the first Blazblue game came out in 2008

@@anthonygerardotorresgonzal6269 Thanks

@@epsyblue7714 Your Welcome!

Could be interesting as the next saga with krohnen as the protagonist

@@captainmega6310 Would personally have to hope that doesn't happen, Krohnen's that character's worst design

Same bro

Same here, minus the BlazBlue.

Yeah, compared to Guilty Gear and Blazblue, KoF is like Teletubbies.

@@MIrfanPerdana same as you

@@sethwick8348 true

guilty gear/blazblue i pretty much only follow for the characters moments as my brain said "just no" to the convoluted plot, there are way more stuffed game stories than those mentioned. and i can follow kingdom hearts(honestly even the time travel which was i can see the plans with it,just had problems with how it happened and think it should've been an appearance of chrono trigger like xehanort stealing the epoch.) but man it's a mess with the handhelds stretching it out when they should've been cutscenes/not taking advantage of the crossover element that it gets underwhelming with characters(especially kairi/playable cast,not having more ff characters/villains,other parts of disney like the animated tv series and not letting worlds meet.). i can understand the ash saga but is my least favorite saga as like thorgi said ash took prevalence over most of the characters that his friends didn't matter(duo long showed how forgotten the assasins/ron were and the most that happens with shen is being chased by oswald.),ash should've been the rival to give mystery as elisabeth is the "hero" of it,outshined the villains(that don't have their own team.) that they're the most forgettable antagonist to me outside mugaki/shion/botan and was when the fatal fury cast got flanderized(with terry's team just being there/mai being hypocritically outfit mocked when there are way more shameless kof fighters with some not ones to talk.). with the three sacred treasures they felt a bit forgotten in favor of hyping ash(that feels like a dumb moment of "why didn't you just tell everyone" rather than fully a noble hero.) and looking back kyo feels there with how he vanishes in the story/the others not having a scene of them confronting ash's actions,could've been upfront with parts of ash's family(honestly forget half the time oorochi was involved with them as it feels more like a reason for vice/mature being playable.) & personally wish it ended with all the teams taking on the villains(like the 14 manga) rather than it only being ash/elizabeth at the end with how it had vanessa/'k's team investigating with heidern and adelheid(hope we see him in 15/especially see his and rose bernstein's reaction to rugal even if briefly alive.).

Especially since Army of Darkness is such a quotable movie

Same here. To be honest, I don’t really like kof but I love watching these videos.

SAME!

yo thanks for mentioning that bitmap book, that thing looks sweet!

Exactly just like any other snk inclusion to the series. I don't know why snk doesn't acknowledge the series it must be for rights reasons I don't know.

I agree! I would like to see a Team Maximum Impact, composed by Alba, Lien and Luise, in KOF XV SNK has re-told the backstories of many classic SNK characters to fit into KOF timeline, the most recent example is with the Garou MOW characters. They could do the same for the MI characters. Just keep Xiao Lon's original backstory, it was perfect!

@@lienneville969 same, either that or duke, negase, and soiree

​@@blaze6477 It's a possible chance that might happen in XV.

@@blaze6477 Never underestimate a developers ability to hold a grudge... they still s*** on the American team and I'd love for them to come back

You called it dude! Lol

@endojajaja hell ya! I was so happy to hear him. I hope hes on future episodes

I think I actually winced when he started talking about pachinko. I'm not entirely sure how that would have been possible, but maybe it's because of the documentary style presentation of this series that the whole thing with Aruze was still fresh in my mind.

The one after Ash basically became my 2nd favorite KOF protagonist TBH.

@@pantyosashu8137 I enjoy stuff like *Jojo* friend. Shun'Ei *REALLY* doesn't look that wild IMO. I feel like I've seen Araki do worse...

@@pantyosashu8137 Yes. Honestly, I like his design except for the pants, having one leg rolled up bothers me. Also I'm a big fan of Jojo. Gameplay wise, he took a neat spin to the all-rounder archtype. For example his dp isn't jumping and spinning instead it's a fire fist upwards while on the ground.

I am probably the only one who likes Alba Meira. He is underrated. I prefer him than Kyo, Ash and Shun

Finally someone not shaitting on SHun EI

It's so good, it got to be in Smash over others.

@@dnmstarsi this is fact!

Yeah, I was curious about that one. Does anyone have any history on it? Its a weird entry in the series.

There's not that many hours in the year. Maybe 1 thousand hours top. Great channel though.

@Mickey Mickey 10 hours a day for 200 days is 2000 hours. Even then, it was obviously hyperbole to emphasize how passionately he works on these. We probably would only have 1 video a year if that was the case, but you do you and take stuff at face value.

Me:**laughs in maining Tizoc, king and benimaru**

I fail to see how your comment has any relevance to anything I said. Seems like you just tossed your main team for the sake of it, when the point of my entire comment was unlocking Mai.

@@RevengerPhoenix well true but I would just unlock mai and other characters just so I can experiment with them after I try all the playable from the start characters in the game, although king, Tizoc and beni are my main, I am sorry to say shit without the context

and the time SNK was making a SNK vs Capcom game that didnt felt great and didnt look more appealing then KoF2003, XI or even the Maximum Impact series.

Yes. You are talking about the official manhua (chinese comic) which was officially translate to eng.

tbf that "story trope" isn't that new if you think about japanese mythology.

I dislike the Ash but the 2003 was a good start point for the story, with many references to the Orochi Saga (because of fanservice) but I liked how Ikari Team were the champions and K' Team was doing stuff. Unfortunately as the saga progresses the writing gets worse, like forgetting the Hizoku plot (again) and the whole Takuma fiasco.

@@lienneville969 Yeah that's why I only emphasised the story in '03 since a lot of the intrigue from that games plot was gone in XI with Takuma, K's team never being plot relevant again, Hizoku again like Dragon Spirit being dropped, Adelheid taking a backseat etc.

@@lienneville969 At least in terms of gameplay & rosters SNK killed it with this saga.

@@kingdomcomesuperman3669 Yeah. The Ash Saga has many plot holes like for example, after stealing Iori's sacred treasure Ash told Kyo that he was going for his sacred treasure...but in KOF 13, Ash no longer wants to steal Kyo's flames for some reason... That's why, in terms of story the Ash saga is my least favorite. Also, I didn't like the excesive fanservice of the Orochi Saga.

@@kingdomcomesuperman3669 I agree with you about the gameplay (love the tag system) and the rosters (except the one in KOF 13, I hate that roster) Unfortunately, KOF went back to the classic 3vs3 in KOF 13 :( At least, SNK Heroines bought back the tag system and is actually fun!

I actually like KoFMI's Iori hairstyle, because I think if his hairstyle went into a mid 2000s 3D model it would look like the way it does in that game by that engine. Sure modern KOF15 Iori did it "better" but I'm not trying to compare it to a higher budget 2.5D fighting game that was made around 16 years later.

@@Evilriku13 to be fair, Iori’s hairstyle is already pretty ridiculous as it is so it’s kind of difficult to make it look amazing.

@@jonssogaming8255 i kinda like it because this is exactly how his hair was drawn in "kof another day" anime and "KOF13" game. He looks cool in that design. And iori had the best English voice actor.

That could’ve worked had they made Elisabeth become the protagonist. And that her story involves finding her missing best friend. Ash crimson. And it turns out that her best friend Ash Crimson was committing theft of the sacred treasures against Orochi and working for the antagonist group. Those from the past. Becoming the villain of that saga. And the twist here is that Ash was so power hungry that he was gaining the trust of the enemy group. And turns out that Ash was turning on them and maybe want Saiki’s power for himself and saiki possessed him and then Ash regains control of his body. But then realizes that he’s dying and that he messed up. That his power hunger really got to him. That he became his own worst enemy. That it made Elisabeth cry deep down inside. And by fading away from existence it’s best that merging with Saiki and destroying his ancestor ironically brought back Elisabeth’s family members who died because they left Ash Crimson to create some mistakes. This include letting him lose control of his green flames to cause a massive mansion fire that killed Elisabeth’s family. Maybe this undo Saiki’s actions towards Europe or something like that. Creating a new timeline in which Saiki doesn’t exist. And there’s some groups who aren’t affected. Maybe become good guys or bad guys. Depending on personalities. Heck this erased the memories of those fighters involved with Ash Crimson. And against Ash. This would probably explain why South Town was never fully destroyed. Instead that the city is not a crater. But except maybe a neighborhood was destroyed. But South Town survives on. As well as why later on Antonov was sued for damages from the destruction of his stadium caused by Verse.

I miss the tag system tbh. At least SNK Heroines brought back the Tag System and it was actually good. The Items in that game were like the Strykers.

Same man. XIII looked so awesome back in the day. I remember snk announcing KOF XIV was only on ps4 and I was crushed lol. I couldn't play on a ps4 at the time. Maximum impact was a great game with good gamrleplay.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mLyfmaqG3NexloE.html for reference

I've been watching that intro for years and this year was the first time I've made that connection

I doubt the whole situation with NESTS and Those From The Past helped, though.

The fourth part is going to be focusing on thr spin offs which means he'll likely talk about it

Wait, shouldn't he talks about Shunei story? I mean, XV is still very new but I just wonder 🤔

@@revbladez5773 Well, that explains it. Hanzo is not his birth name per say. It is the name he uses as the head of the family/ninja clan.