Baron Aloha
A Shining Example
KOF2003 (PS2) screens from NeoArcadia:
Now for the KOF2004 rumors from an alleged alpha test. They may or may not be true. Some people were quick to label them bullshit (the same people who said the news for KOF2003 was bullshit when it was first revealed) but the truth is no one knows. A similar report from an alpha test for KOF2003 was leaked and it all turned out to be true.
- Game speed back to 02 standards. The tag is the only fast stuff
- Tag still the same rules than 03, no health recovery.
- Character portraits appear next to life bar. If kim is active then the kim portrait will be shown.
- Life bars are the same as 03
- Choose between 2 game modes: the SDM mode with no cancelling, dash nor CD attack; and the super cancelling mode with only LDM for the leader, dash, CD attack and just defended.
- Even though big part of the sprites were cut from 03, they don't look as pixelated as neowave.
- The fifth button is for the tag function
- Very flashy intro beginning with the new chars (kashmiur, tania, rock, hotaru, soiree,alba,mignon,lien), the returning (geese, kensou, bao). resembles the 99 intro. Then a collage with kyo, iori , ash, soiree and alba. intro is kinda long, the longest in all kof's.
- There's one stage ripped from svc chaos, the last one before the boss fight.
- You fight against a 03-standars-under-powered kusanagi for the 4th match. it's a subboss fight like the angel-k9999-kula in 2002. u fight between the special team of kusanagi, rose and adel. the three hidden chars.
- Music is a bunch of remixes from previous OST specially from 00 and 03
- Nothing changed for the sound department. voices remains the same
- Nice select screen with a card style like in 96 with a blue background. portraits are gettin' smaller but the chars draws are well done with the same style as 02.
- Lots of special intros, chang and choi hit kim in his intro with jhun. ryo has special intros with yuri,robert,king and terry. kyo and iori regain their 01 intro with more and new dialogues. k' has special intro with kyo, ash, kula and tania. Kensou and Bao have a very and "must seen" intro against Ash.
- If you defeat kusanagi/adel/rose with DM, SDM or LDM you'll fight Malka. if you don't, then you'll fight mukai for the bad ending (what happened to me lots of times and didn't catch the story of every team).
- Chizuru is insanely overpowered and lost her reflection move. she got slower and it's a fortune she made team with kyo and iori again
- Game finished with the k' team. Before the boss fight Malka and Mukai talk about Chizuru's power in Ash's control and Leona and Whip's strange dissapearence.
- Tania has two of K's trademark moves. Possibly another Kyo clone.
- Kashmiur is a charge and motion char, a mixure just like kim. she has a counter dm similar to the royalty test for the liberalist (Angel).
- Consider rock howard as an old terry bogard. he's small as chris, no neo deadly rave DM and no double repuken, just repuken.
- Hotaru has all her powers from garou except the DM where she absorbs energy from the oponent. she is like malin's size.
- Hokutomaru is the same as garou with less speed. He is the size of Malin.
- Geese has new sprite, clothes same as svc but face has less hair and aging signs, he is getting old.
- Duolon doesn't have his 03 infinite, Lin is the same from 01 and didn't play with Lan.
The Teams:
Hero Team: Soiree, Alba, Mignon
Anti Hero Team: Ash, Shen, Lien
Fatal Fury Team: Terry, Joe, Mary
Hizoku Team: Lin, Duo Lon, Lan
Mark of the Wolves Team: Rock, Hotaru, Hokutomaru
Korea Team: Kim, Jhun, Jae Hoon
Art of Fighting Team: Ryo, Robert, Yuri
Women's Team: King, Kashmiur, Tania
Fists of God Team: Kyo, Chizuru, Iori
Outlaw Team: Geese, Billy, Gato
Millenium Team: K', Kula, Vanessa
Psycho Soldiers Team: Athena, Kensou, Bao
Japan Team: Shingo, Benimaru, Daimon
Hidden chars: Adelheid, Rose, Kusanagi
Now for the KOF2004 rumors from an alleged alpha test. They may or may not be true. Some people were quick to label them bullshit (the same people who said the news for KOF2003 was bullshit when it was first revealed) but the truth is no one knows. A similar report from an alpha test for KOF2003 was leaked and it all turned out to be true.
- Game speed back to 02 standards. The tag is the only fast stuff
- Tag still the same rules than 03, no health recovery.
- Character portraits appear next to life bar. If kim is active then the kim portrait will be shown.
- Life bars are the same as 03
- Choose between 2 game modes: the SDM mode with no cancelling, dash nor CD attack; and the super cancelling mode with only LDM for the leader, dash, CD attack and just defended.
- Even though big part of the sprites were cut from 03, they don't look as pixelated as neowave.
- The fifth button is for the tag function
- Very flashy intro beginning with the new chars (kashmiur, tania, rock, hotaru, soiree,alba,mignon,lien), the returning (geese, kensou, bao). resembles the 99 intro. Then a collage with kyo, iori , ash, soiree and alba. intro is kinda long, the longest in all kof's.
- There's one stage ripped from svc chaos, the last one before the boss fight.
- You fight against a 03-standars-under-powered kusanagi for the 4th match. it's a subboss fight like the angel-k9999-kula in 2002. u fight between the special team of kusanagi, rose and adel. the three hidden chars.
- Music is a bunch of remixes from previous OST specially from 00 and 03
- Nothing changed for the sound department. voices remains the same
- Nice select screen with a card style like in 96 with a blue background. portraits are gettin' smaller but the chars draws are well done with the same style as 02.
- Lots of special intros, chang and choi hit kim in his intro with jhun. ryo has special intros with yuri,robert,king and terry. kyo and iori regain their 01 intro with more and new dialogues. k' has special intro with kyo, ash, kula and tania. Kensou and Bao have a very and "must seen" intro against Ash.
- If you defeat kusanagi/adel/rose with DM, SDM or LDM you'll fight Malka. if you don't, then you'll fight mukai for the bad ending (what happened to me lots of times and didn't catch the story of every team).
- Chizuru is insanely overpowered and lost her reflection move. she got slower and it's a fortune she made team with kyo and iori again
- Game finished with the k' team. Before the boss fight Malka and Mukai talk about Chizuru's power in Ash's control and Leona and Whip's strange dissapearence.
- Tania has two of K's trademark moves. Possibly another Kyo clone.
- Kashmiur is a charge and motion char, a mixure just like kim. she has a counter dm similar to the royalty test for the liberalist (Angel).
- Consider rock howard as an old terry bogard. he's small as chris, no neo deadly rave DM and no double repuken, just repuken.
- Hotaru has all her powers from garou except the DM where she absorbs energy from the oponent. she is like malin's size.
- Hokutomaru is the same as garou with less speed. He is the size of Malin.
- Geese has new sprite, clothes same as svc but face has less hair and aging signs, he is getting old.
- Duolon doesn't have his 03 infinite, Lin is the same from 01 and didn't play with Lan.
The Teams:
Hero Team: Soiree, Alba, Mignon
Anti Hero Team: Ash, Shen, Lien
Fatal Fury Team: Terry, Joe, Mary
Hizoku Team: Lin, Duo Lon, Lan
Mark of the Wolves Team: Rock, Hotaru, Hokutomaru
Korea Team: Kim, Jhun, Jae Hoon
Art of Fighting Team: Ryo, Robert, Yuri
Women's Team: King, Kashmiur, Tania
Fists of God Team: Kyo, Chizuru, Iori
Outlaw Team: Geese, Billy, Gato
Millenium Team: K', Kula, Vanessa
Psycho Soldiers Team: Athena, Kensou, Bao
Japan Team: Shingo, Benimaru, Daimon
Hidden chars: Adelheid, Rose, Kusanagi
