Ok since I never gave any complete reasoning to why I think the game's bad... here's some bullet points.
-Stylish Moves (aka chain combos)
Everything in the god damn game revolves around these. It isn't that they stuck in chain combos to the game, it's that they made it ESSENTIAL to use. You can't work around them. If you're character has shitty ass stylish moves, you're fucked.
Special/Super moves can only be cancelled from stylish moves (aka you can't just hit HP XX super move), which maybe isn't really that much of a complaint but it shows how far the departure from 2D kof it is.
Like I said, it seems if you're character got dealt shitty stylish moves ( aka the eddy clone) you're not going to do so well.
This is my chief complain by far, instead of going the difficult route of the game and trying to actually get that KOF feel into the game, they threw this junk in.
-Jumping Moves
Useless. Least I haven't found a damn use from them. They don't seem to have much of a tactical advantage since they're easy to see coming, and hard as hell to combo afterwards.
-Juggles
Again, I'm not going to complain that juggles are bad, just that it looks like they didn't try to regulate them whatsoever. Some characters have some easy ass juggles that do great damage, while others get stuck with crap... well they're fucked.
I pretty sure there's quite lots and lots of nasty juggles out there that could easily make the game lopsided as hell. Something tells me if people play seriously enough this game comes down to whoever lands the first stylish chain.
-Animation
It can be decent, to down right horrible (couple throw animations had me gag).
-New Characters
Most are pretty horrible in my opinion, and their look and feel have this distinctive "Made for this game" feel. They also don't seem as good as the old characters because of this. Lots of the old characters have moves that'll easily go from their stylish moves and cause some good juggles. Again, I could be wrong this is just my initial assessment.
-Story Mode
It's horrible, don't even know why it's labeled story mode as there really isn't much story besides this guy wants to kick everyones asses (which I guess isn't much of a departure from other KOFs). They include these cutscenes (god knows why, we like loading I guess?) of some ass munch verbally telling who your next match is. Thanks I could of figured that out myself jackass. Also the endboss is cake.
Ok now that I think I got the main complains out of the way, I'll list a few small ones
Nitpicks
-Why no dual voice mode?
-Mission mode while a nice diversion (they ripped it straight from EX) is way too character depedant. Some of the missions will require you to do things that some characters may have a very very hard time accomplishing, while others will easily breeze through it. They should of made you play specific characters, or had missions for individual characters.
-Music is meh.
-Why no clean pause screen, my screenshots turn out crap SNK without it paused.
Good things to say (crazy huh?)
-For the first installment there's a decent number of characters.
-Some of the alternate character designs for characters is spiffy. (See screens below)
-Some of the English voices are actually good (doesn't excuse the no dual voice). Among these I'd say Yuri (I think they nailed her attitude), and Leona.
-Some unlockables I suppose (3 stages, 2 new colors for each character, and the last boss)
-Lots of cameos in the background.
Overall, I say unless you're a die hard fan who wants to give SNK some money, or a button mashing full... goo ahead and buy it. But if some of the elements I've talked about has made you queezy then hold off.
Here's some alternate costumes colors.
Mai
Athena
Leona (B.Mary?!?)
Ryo (Jin!?!?)
Yuri
Mary in the BG
-Stylish Moves (aka chain combos)
Everything in the god damn game revolves around these. It isn't that they stuck in chain combos to the game, it's that they made it ESSENTIAL to use. You can't work around them. If you're character has shitty ass stylish moves, you're fucked.
Special/Super moves can only be cancelled from stylish moves (aka you can't just hit HP XX super move), which maybe isn't really that much of a complaint but it shows how far the departure from 2D kof it is.
Like I said, it seems if you're character got dealt shitty stylish moves ( aka the eddy clone) you're not going to do so well.
This is my chief complain by far, instead of going the difficult route of the game and trying to actually get that KOF feel into the game, they threw this junk in.
-Jumping Moves
Useless. Least I haven't found a damn use from them. They don't seem to have much of a tactical advantage since they're easy to see coming, and hard as hell to combo afterwards.
-Juggles
Again, I'm not going to complain that juggles are bad, just that it looks like they didn't try to regulate them whatsoever. Some characters have some easy ass juggles that do great damage, while others get stuck with crap... well they're fucked.
I pretty sure there's quite lots and lots of nasty juggles out there that could easily make the game lopsided as hell. Something tells me if people play seriously enough this game comes down to whoever lands the first stylish chain.
-Animation
It can be decent, to down right horrible (couple throw animations had me gag).
-New Characters
Most are pretty horrible in my opinion, and their look and feel have this distinctive "Made for this game" feel. They also don't seem as good as the old characters because of this. Lots of the old characters have moves that'll easily go from their stylish moves and cause some good juggles. Again, I could be wrong this is just my initial assessment.
-Story Mode
It's horrible, don't even know why it's labeled story mode as there really isn't much story besides this guy wants to kick everyones asses (which I guess isn't much of a departure from other KOFs). They include these cutscenes (god knows why, we like loading I guess?) of some ass munch verbally telling who your next match is. Thanks I could of figured that out myself jackass. Also the endboss is cake.
Ok now that I think I got the main complains out of the way, I'll list a few small ones
Nitpicks
-Why no dual voice mode?
-Mission mode while a nice diversion (they ripped it straight from EX) is way too character depedant. Some of the missions will require you to do things that some characters may have a very very hard time accomplishing, while others will easily breeze through it. They should of made you play specific characters, or had missions for individual characters.
-Music is meh.
-Why no clean pause screen, my screenshots turn out crap SNK without it paused.
Good things to say (crazy huh?)
-For the first installment there's a decent number of characters.
-Some of the alternate character designs for characters is spiffy. (See screens below)
-Some of the English voices are actually good (doesn't excuse the no dual voice). Among these I'd say Yuri (I think they nailed her attitude), and Leona.
-Some unlockables I suppose (3 stages, 2 new colors for each character, and the last boss)
-Lots of cameos in the background.
Overall, I say unless you're a die hard fan who wants to give SNK some money, or a button mashing full... goo ahead and buy it. But if some of the elements I've talked about has made you queezy then hold off.
Here's some alternate costumes colors.
Mai
Athena
Leona (B.Mary?!?)
Ryo (Jin!?!?)
Yuri
Mary in the BG
