There’s plenty of faces here that you’d expect for the first chapter of a new era-Kyo, Iori, Terry, K’, Mai, Athena, Kim, Ryo, Yuri, and many more-but it’s who we didn’t expect that’s the most noticeable.
More than almost any other franchise, fans put a lot of demands on who SNK includes for every outing, and KOFXIV’s roster goes in a rather interesting direction. Way back at my introduction to The King of Fighters ‘94, the exciting part of the game was the roster of fighters it offered, and that’s just as true twenty-two years later. Now, after having spent what is admittedly still a short amount of time with the full final game, my current mode can be summed up with two words: relieved and hopeful. My hands-on with the game at E3 really left a sour taste in my mouth, but the following public demo alleviated some of that concern. One piece of media or announcement would come out that filled fans with excitement, and then the next would instill worry again. The days leading up to KOFXIV certainly were rough. With the release this week of The King of Fighters XIV, the series has seen twenty mainline entries spanning decades and gaming platforms-and it’s been a road that hasn’t always been a smooth one. Much more than its previous attempts at the genre, The King of Fighters was the fighting franchise that I believe cemented SNK’s legacy, becoming to the company what Street Fighter had become to Capcom. As my (far) younger self headed toward the fighting games, one of the regulars told me they’d gotten in this new title where a bunch of SNK characters squared off against one another (an idea that seemed surreal at the time). I still remember the day I walked into my local arcade and discovered The King of Fighters ‘94.
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