The ULTIMATE SNK Fighting Game Iceberg Explained - PART 1 (LAYER 1)

foreign [Music] a lot of you have been asking about it I've been wanting to tackle it so now we finally got it at least part one seeing that there have been several kof themed Iceberg videos made including one that was done in English which got mysteriously nuked probably YouTube go on YouTube again I felt like that was just a missed opportunity due to me just being late to the trend when it comes to videos like this that follow a formatter trend I usually don't like to produce content without a Twist of sorts and you can probably tell what that is by looking at the title not only are we going to be covering kof in this Iceberg but many other SNK fighting games this Iceberg will have entries including notable SNK fighting games and related media trivia lost media theories and so on I'm sure by now everyone knows what an iceberg is and if you don't look it up not trying to be a jerk but I just don't want another obnoxiously wrong intro I will say this though the entries here will be sorted based on a mixture of how obscure and unknown they are as well as how ominous disturbing they are one final thing unlike my fighting game guest character Iceberg I cannot take a hundred percent credit for putting this one together special thanks to raito ADV and raging Rowan from Reddit for allowing me to use some of the info from their respective icebergs for this one of course I added a bunch more entries as well as removed and fused them for months of research and I'm technically still not even done yet just a healthy reminder that this is part one of this series after all parts are out I'll have a complete edition of this Iceberg with all parts new information Corrections and so on so with all that being said this is the ultimate SNK fighting game Iceberg part one the mind is like an iceberg it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water our Consciousness is merely the tip of the iceberg I basically have this entry here for the sake of completion more than likely if you clicked into this video you already know about these three franchises so I won't spend too much time on them in short fatal Fury art of fighting and King of Fighters are usually considered the big three of SNK fighting games making its debut in arcades in November 25th 1991 fatal Fury primarily centers around Terry and Andy Bogard swearing revenge on the Southtown crime Lord geese Howard for killing their father Jeff the most recently released installment of the series Garo Mark of the Wolves takes place a decade after geese's death the game follows his son Rock Howard who was raised and trained by Terry art of fighting though it was released after fatal Fury canonically takes place before the aforementioned game it focuses on the various Chronicles of real sakazaki and Robert Garcia with the first game following the duo on a mission to rescue the former sister Yuri sakazaki aof-2 would feature a young geese Howard who would go on to create and hold the very first King of Fighters tournament aof-3 focuses more on Robert looking for a lost Friend the King of Fighters series would be a crossover of the aforementioned 2 Series plus more that put more emphasis on team-based gameplay with this game SNK additionally sought out to draw in newer and younger fans thus kyokusanagi was created as the series first protagonist kof would go on to have many new protagonists and characters over its long and storied run which continues to this day dream matches our games across several SNK fighting game franchises that are usually non-canonical a couple of dream match games are updates to Mainline games with one example being fatal Fury special this game was an update to fatal Fury 2 which included some balance changes to the characters and added all of them mid and Final Bosses as playable characters another huge selling point of dream matches is the inclusion of playable characters that may be canonically dead or from another series for an example referring back to fatal Fury's special art of fightings Ryo sakazaki was included as a hidden boss and yes sakazaki that was a tongue twister and I'm happy to actually got it anyway uh yeah that's it for me kof 2000 has an Easter egg with the striker system that basically gives each character two selectable Strikers a normal Striker and another Striker certain characters actually have a hidden third option of Strikers called Maniac Strikers as it is with the other Strikers some of the maniac Strikers are characters that hail from other SNK games and properties arguably two of the most surprising ones would have to be Neo and Geo from quiz die solstasen and Jim gentle a character that had been an SNK mascot even before the likes of Terry Bogard Maniac Strikers are unlocked by highlighting a character's another Striker and then pressing up left three times right three times down and then selecting the maniac Striker Alf dream match 1999 is an enhanced Port of the King of Fighters 98 release June 24th 1999 in Japan and October 22nd 1999 in North America this was due to the Sega Saturn's run effectively coming to a close as it had declined in popularity in Japan and was no longer being distributed in North America and Europe so SNK and Sega struck a deal to produce a version of kof-98 for the premiere console the Dreamcast as you can clearly tell the title isn't based on the game it is a remake of but rather is simply referring to year of its release similar to kof-99 Evolution this game featured 3D remodel backgrounds kof dream match 99 also has a slew of changes and upgrades to the game's UI it runs at 60 frames per second and even supports connection with kofr-2 on the Neo Geo Pocket color which you can use to unlock bonus content SNK bow syndrome is a turn coined by fans to describe insanely broken Boss characters in fighting games it originated from the reputation of SNK fighting game Boss characters to be incredibly difficult to beat these characters would have all sorts of broken things including obscenely high damage output chip damage immunity unavoidable attacks annoying unblockables and much more on an interesting note kof All-Star has a selection of characters called boss syndrome characters which include several Infamous kof bosses such as Regal governments and Nightmare geese the name of this category can be seen as a play on words in it BS characters Leona like a handful of other King of Fighters characters has a nationality that's always remained unknown though there are many fan theories about her nationality many believe Leona was born in the Spanish-speaking country due to her name being Spanish for lioness to add to this Theory heider and found Leona as a child in a village in the Amazon forest leading many to think she's Brazilian but SNK has yet to confirm this wiebenheimer simply put is a rather humorous insult uttered by one Ryo sakazaki the first known usage of this term was in his kof-98 win quote if you were to look up dweebenheimer you'll mostly find memes and jokes centered around Rio what's interesting about this is that he isn't the only character to utter this word in an SNK fighting game fast forward to gato Mark of the Wolves Kevin Rion calls Kane a dweebenheimer in the pre-battle dialogue what exactly is a dweebenheimer more than likely what you're thinking of is probably accurate or close foreign controversy was in essence something of a weird publicity stunt poll by smk over the span of roughly 20 years k49 is a character that debuted in kof 2001. he possessed an excessive amount of qualities that were lifted directly from akita's tattoo Oshima so much so that he could be considered a rip-off that could lead to legal trouble for a while that seemed to be the case as SNK took several measures to remove him from official art the kof storyline and even replacing him with nameless in kof 2002 ultimate match what many fans didn't realize is that in the midst of SNK removing and distancing themselves from k49 the company had still been utilizing his likeness in their other games and not a single lawsuit was ever filed I actually made a video about this so go check that out for more details of course come kof15 a character named Cronin would be revealed playing and still basically looking like k49 end with a few tweaks and we would later find out in his team's ending that he was indeed k-49 just under a new Alias the only information we directly got from SNK was a couple of messages from Community manager crispy Kaiser who claimed he quote had to keep the big lie going the real reason why SNK pulled this stud is really anyone's guess it's safe to say that most of snk's fighting game characters were designed after and inspired by anime and manga series we already talked about k49 being blatantly based on Tessa Oshima from Akira speaking of said series we also just finished talking about a character who was inspired by the protagonist shotoro Canada that being kyokusanagi kiyo's design was additionally inspired by Akira fudo from Devilman Joe yabuki from Ashira nojo and Ryoma nagare from get to Robo and speaking of that series Keo and his team Japan teammates were conceptualized after the ghetto Robo Trio and speaking of Team Japan binimaru is clearly and obviously inspired by Jean-Pierre pongarev from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure especially when you look at his kof-94 design and speaking of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure the influence of anime and manga on SNK fighting games goes beyond just character visual designs but also extends the character moves such as the case for the fourth and current KOA protagonist shune whose kof14 climax is shades of another fourth protagonist Jose higasha and his ballistic barasa blows be getting a brutal Beatdown and speaking of okay I'll stop there are so many anime and manga homages across snk's fighting games that this entry would be obnoxiously long the game known as Samurai Spirits in Japan is known overseas as Samurai Showdown except in South Korea which we'll get to further down the iceberg the Samurai Showdown name was suggested by snk's U.S distributor who thought the word Spirits didn't really tell the consumer what the game was actually about this led to them pitching the showdown part of the games overseas title the misspelling of Showdown was inspired by the miniseries Shogun the King of Fighters Kyo is a three-volume long manga series that was first published in 1996 as the title suggests the story closely follows kyokusanagi after the events of the King of Fighters 95 tournament it focuses more on kyo's mental state moving forward as well as covering his relationships with other characters including his girlfriend Yuki whom he hid his life as a fighter from which caused a rift between the two Athena who transferred to kyo's school to monitor him whom is also being followed by none other than kenso and of course features another scrap between him and iori the story is one of Kyo wrestling with demoralization which involves him even going into a state that is reminiscent of the riot of blood though Keo has often been portrayed as a dominant fighter throughout the kof storyline this manga could be seen as a humbling low point for him as he suffers many losses which damages his self-confidence an RPG visual novel game of the same name was also developed and released for the Sony PlayStation on August 27 1998. shortly after the release of art of fighting Capcom saw the game's main protagonist Ryo sakazaki as a ripoff of street fighters Ken and Ryu in humorous retaliation Capcom would create Dan hibiki who was a spoof of the heroic art of fighting Duo Capcom took the first shot at aof with Street Fighter 2 co-designer akimen drawing artwork of Sagat holding a defeated Fighter by the head the fighter wore a karate ghee similar to Rio and had long brown hair tied into a ponytail similar to Robert Garcia later down the line this character would be morphed into Dan hibiki and additionally served as inspiration for his father goes design making his debut in Street Fighter Alpha as a secret character Dan rocked a pink version of ryo's ghee and in addition to his hairstyle his facial features definitely bore a resemblance to Robert his overall fighting style psycho style was a parody of kyoku gin Ryu karate his moves would be insultingly weak most notably his co-okin spoof the good okin this Fireball is Infamous for having pitiful range and damage Capcom would utilize Dan to take shots at SNK in various other ways including giving him a sister named yuriko who not only resembled Yuri sakazaki but had the same birthday and blood type as Yuri also worth noting both of them love cake and softball spoofing the art of fighting ending with Dan's ending in Marvel superheroes vs street fighter Ken asking Dan if he knew the art of fighting in their Alpha 2 Rival Battle and Dan proclaiming that he hates the art of fighting but wants to be the King of Fighters in an alpha 3 win quote and probably many more the psycho Soldier pop Idol Athena is known for a couple of things her signature cycle ball moved getting her own adventure game and switching up her outfit all throughout her many kof appearances while other characters may get small tweaks to their designs Athena would wear different colored sailor suits school girl outfits relatively more casual and sporty outfits and wear her hair in a variety of styles going as far as to cut it very short in kof 2001 character designer as-k ogura felt that Athena constantly changing up her wardrobe would make her all the more appealing to her demographic also known as ultimate Regal in American versions of cvs2 God Regal is one of the game's Final Bosses this version of Regal is infused with his own erochi power in the satsui noharu he obtained the latter after defeating Akuma in the tournament finals this of course gave the already powerful fearsome roguel access to some of akuma's techniques including his teleport Asura senku which he dubs God Lane and the Son Goku satsu which he dubs the last judgment the appearance of this ultimate God form will make rugal the first SNK boss with two or more versions of their Persona with Omega rugal being the other Destroyer cutter was an alternative name giving to rugal's Signature anti-air the genocide cutter in non-japanese versions of Capcom vs SNK 2 due to this change Regal obviously does not shout genocide cutter like he usually does when performing the move he doesn't shout destroy a cutter either instead he just grunts sagat's tiger genocide super move also face similar censorship as it is called tiger Destroyer onceugat performs the move he starts off saying Tiger but does not complete the name but instead more grunting though the reasoning for this censorship was never outright stated for one reason or another it's safe to say that Capcom thought the word genocide was a little too much thankfully cvs2 was the only instance where the censorship happened for rugal because genocide cutter is definitely a more badass name also I agree the genocide cutter is legendary foreign it's not unusual for a voice actor to play multiple characters what is pretty interesting is some of the coincidences that come as a result one of the most obvious examples is k49 having the exact same voice actor as his inspiration tetsuo Shima with both being voiced by nozomusasaki I personally feel SNK knew what they were doing here and chose Sasaki on purpose still it's pretty uncommon to see a character and their source of inspiration being voiced by the same person Samurai Showdown also has a couple of pretty interesting examples kohe amasaki voiced haruho yaguchi one of the main characters of the anime high score girl which started airing in 2018. this romantic comedy involved many fighting games including Samurai Showdown which would make a comeback the next year with a new protagonist yashamaru Karama this new protagonist will be voiced by yep you guessed it kohei amasaki also in Sam show 7 Mina majekina made her return being voiced by yui Ishikawa who would also voice another white-haired girl with some cloth covering her eyes near automata's 2B what makes this even cooler is that Ishikawa also voiced to be in a weapon-based fighting game Soul Calibur 6. finally my favorite example of this involves Eric Kelso who did some Voice work in a game that many fans try to forget that being kof12 he provided the English voices for bini Maru and Clark still we're going to focus more on Benny Maru in this case because Kelso also voiced two other beloved fighting game characters virtual Fighters Jackie Bryant and tekken's Paul Phoenix three characters with tall blonde hair this is tuna with bacon is what we eat pendants called a Monda green which is a misinterpretation or mishearing of phrase or lyrics in a way that gives it a new meaning the misheard lyric in question stems from the theme of the cvs2 London stage which is a huge fan favorite the actual lyric that is repeated numerous times throughout the song is this is true love we're making what makes this older more funny and I dare say all the more cool is that they tuna with bacon lyric is referenced in another fighting game skull girls this is tuna with bacon as many of us know SNK fighting games have been linked to each other even prior to kof though fatal Fury was released before artifiting the latter canonically comes before the former in the timeline the Foolin series consisting of savage Reign and kazuna encounter was released after both games and takes place after both more specifically the game's chronologically come after the Fatal Fury series as they take place in an upgraded Advanced version of South town called jipong City in the 21st century of course characters from all three of these series plus more would cross over into kof kof was seen as something of an alternate continuity to the aof and fatal Fury timeline due to the dead geese Howard reappearing and of course the whole Paradox with having his son Rock in the series bradiki 1 has quite an interesting history in the shared Universe the game was linked to aof and fatal Fury through the appearance of an older Ryo sakazaki now going by Mr Karate 2 though there's a bit of discrepancy concerning his age between the games bariki one characters would go on to appear in kof most notably gaitendo and Silber though Samurai Showdown had a presence in kof as early as 95 it would be kof 14 where the franchise would canonically cross over into the timeline nakururu was positioned as a key character in 14 being accompanied by love heart from skylove and mui mui from Dragon GAO the latter two characters would quickly get axed from kof-15 due to licensing and copyright issues and would be replaced by Sam Show's Hao Maru and Darley dagger speak of weapon-based Fighters The Last Blade could also be considered due to strong implications that zantetsu is an ancestor of art of fighting's aegisaragi finally considering the promotion that Savage Reigns's Max Eagle wrestles for that being the swf or the SNK Wrestling Federation three count bout could also be included in the shared universe with characters like shermy whose eyes are covered by their bangs a lot of fans Wonder does shermy even have eyes to the point where a lot of fans look up the 3D modelings of shermy from SNK heroines and King of Fighters 15 but here's the thing we've already seen shermi's eyes if you look at the promotional art for King of Fighters 97 you can see that shermy does in fact have eyes right there she's giving off a murderous glare to which some fans would say is unsettling even in early concepts for sure me you can see that she was designed with shorter hair that shows off her eyes Mr Karate is none other than takuma sakazaki the father of Rio and Yuri sakazaki he adopted this moniker when he was forced to work for geese Howard hoping to preserve the honor of his family and his school Mr Karate was feared by many as a vicious and unbeatable opponent he left Clues and hints to his true identity for Yuri but not for Ryo which would explain the ending for aof takuma purposely did this to see his son's true potential as he felt their family ties would cause Ryo to hold back on him in kof and SVC chaos Mr Karate is more of a comic relief character he has a running gag involving him constantly denying his true identity going as far as to say he doesn't even know anyone named takuma additionally SBC chaos marked the debut of the boss character Shin Mr Karate or Sirius Mr Karate as the name suggests this is a more serious version of Mr Karate based on his aof Incarnation to contrast him from his comical version serious Mr Karate would later make a return in kof13 as DLC foreign is the main antagonist and final boss of kof14 this dark entity was created when Ash crimson and psyche were erased from space-time and history first was also created from an eternal pool of negative energy and thrives on the darkness of people's desires and wishes numerous Souls of deceased persons resided inside of the dark entity which were released after its demise notable characters revived as a result of this include Orochi who was immediately sealed away after being sensed by the sacred Treasures Chris not me yashodo shermy and Guinness aka the four Heavenly Kings Omega rugal gaidel Dolores Mizuki rashojin chrysalid ignis and Ash Crimson who was found by kukri and Elizabeth with the exception of Dolores and the four Heavenly Kings each of Versa Souls would speak through him to specific people as shown with some of versus win quotes thank you it's always pretty cool when game developers get inspiration from the players and her Standalone playable debut in kof 2000 it had been discovered that Vanessa had an infinite this combo involved hitting an opponent for standing a or standing light punch canceling into our puncher weave stance canceling said stance into neutral quickly hitting another stand light punch and looping the entire sequence over and over and over fast forward to kill with 14 Vanessa would make her return as a DLC character and came with a new climax which was a total call back to her old infinite the move was called Infinity puncher come kof15 Vanessa would return as being included in the game's starting roster still having the infinity puncher as her climax given their militaristic background it would make total sense for Ralph and Clark to utilize artillery-like grenades originally Ralph was said to have some moves as such but they were ultimately scrapped as the devs felt the use of bombs in a fighting tournament would have been a bit wild and unfair this would probably explain why he was given such explosive punches also this fact is a bit odd in hindsight as whip would utilize some explosive in later kof games despite Ralph and Clogg being redesigned in kof12 wearing grenades on their vests they never actually used them in combat on top of that Clark actually reveals an interaction in kof 13 at the grenades he's wearing are actually Duds thus they wouldn't go off shit's fire touched them foreign was one of the most mysterious characters to debut in King of Fighters 14 with a hood covering his head and his face being shrouded in Shadow to further add to his mysteriousness there's very little information in his profile that gives any concrete details about him we don't know his actual name his blood type or his weight and the unusual thing about his profile is that the information that we do get about kukri is information that is second hand from other characters we know his dislikes and hobbies from other characters we know where he was born from other characters accounts his favorite foods and his favorite sports so on and so forth from other characters and I find it weird in all the more mysterious that all of his personal information that we do have on his profile is provided by a middleman but if his kof15 interview is anything to go by it would just seem that kukri really doesn't like press Guido was a member of the hakeshu who was killed by his daughter a young Leona heidern after Guinness awakened the ride of the blood within her in the ikari Warriors kof-97 ending Leona fully recovers her memories which involves guidel talking to her as a child and Advising that she follows her own fate rather than following Orochi he was one of the souls inside of verse who was revived After the Dark entity's defeat it is worth noting that we've never really seen what gaidel looks like the only time we get a visual of him in game is within the aforementioned kof-97 ending and even then it's merely a silhouette on this page of the King of Fighters perfect art collection that features the hakeshu every character has an image except geidel then there's this image from a kof Manoa that features oroji and the hakeshu while there is an image of gaidel the colors are inverted making him fairly unidentifiable with gaidel confirmed to be alive again Leona hopes to locate and reunite with him someday Ron is a character that was introduced in kof 2000 he was formerly the leader of an Assassin's Guild called the hazoku he was ousted from The Guild after portraying them for nests which he did so for personal gain his powers are mostly centered around necromancy and withdrawing Souls which is noticeable when he fights alongside zero he is the father of duolong Zhao long and eight other Sons Ron is one of the most interesting characters that has never been a standalone playable character in a Mainline kof game he's also a key character in The much thought after Dragon Spirit Arc speaking of the Dragon Spirit is a mysterious special power that resides inside of kenso and Bao the power was first seen in kof-99 when kenso unwillingly triggered it to rescue Athena from the collapsing Nest base this power would then cause kenso and Bao to pass out shortly afterward it was this occurrence that possibly led to Chin postulating that the Dragon Spirit is linked to the two boys he further speculated that the dragon spirit's power transferred to Bao upon kenso using it this would turn out to be the case in kof 2000 after Bao destroys a zero Cannon by absorbing the second shot which greatly damages him this leads them to learning that the power transfers between the two of them when one of them is Gravely injured as mentioned in the previous entry Ron is also involved with the Dragon Spirit storyline Ron oversees and overhears information about the Dragon Spirit according to him the Dragon Spirit could be awakened even further and it had the potential to be more powerful than the entire Ness cartel around the time of kof 11 kenso had fully regained his powers and obtained Mastery over the Dragon Spirit meanwhile Ron awaits for his next moment that kenso activates the Dragon Spirit so that he can claim it for himself as of that game nothing of significance really occurred about the Dragon Spirit kof 13 is the latest game where he gets a mention the dragon spear Arc is one of the most sought after and unresolved storylines that many fans hope SNK continues in the future Anastasia is the host of the kof-15 tournament and that's basically all we know about her we don't know why she hosted the tournament nor have we seen what she even looks like the only character that seems to have some familiarity with her is Antonov when asked about his relation to Anastasia in his interview he awkwardly Dodges the question of course there are several theories about Anastasia among several fans some suggest that she took over as the CEO of antonov's company after the latter got hit with 75 lawsuits one fan also appointed to another character by the name of Anastasia from the metal slug series that has traveled through space and time of course there are fans that don't think there isn't anything special to Anastasia and you see her as a filler character Takashi nishiyama is a video game designer director and producer known to as hardcore fighting game nerds and fans as the man who created Street Fighter alongside longtime collaborator Hiroshi Matsumoto and fatal Fury the fact he created both franchises caused him a bit of annoyance when people accused the latter of being a Shameless clone of the former nishiyama would point out that members of the gaming press knew next to nothing about the makers of the games at that point in time he would go on to say that there were many things he wanted to include in the original Street Fighter that didn't just make the cut sometime after that game came out nishiyama would go over to work for SNK and incorporate some of the scrapped Street Fighter elements into fatal Fury one such element was producing more of a story-driven narrative for a fighting game rather than just pitting characters against each other just to fight possibly in response to critics claiming fatal Fury was a street fighter to knock off nishiyama stated that quote for me fatal Fury is my Street Fighter 2. if a cast of colorful and sometimes comical characters as well as having a pretty crafty and creative audience it's no surprise that kof has its share of inside jokes and memes the kof subreddit features a banner of one of these memes that simply asks the question you want to play some kof this official artwork if Keo was noted for being simultaneously creepy and hilarious evolving him appearing from unexpected locations asking people if they want to play kof other gags are centered around misheard phrases when characters call out the names of their moves when Leona performed four throws in kof-99 many thought she was screaming apple juice SNK clearly caught on to this as they would have lay on a shout this very same phrase in later kof games and gags are still ongoing with many jokes about Vanessa and Blue Mary's armpits bginny punishing people with the slipper and kill f-15's very own slogan shatter all expectations the word that inspired hotaru futaba's creation is Moe the word Moe is a Japanese term that is used to describe feelings of strong affection towards characters and anime manga video games and any media aimed at the otaku audience this term is usually directed at youthful innocent cutesy characters as they tend to elicit strong feelings of love and adoration from the viewers around the time when Garo Marco the Wolves was in development SNK designer and director nobayuki kuroki recall usage of the word Moe becoming more prominent the dev team wanted to include some Moe into the game but some of them were unsure exactly what that was thankfully some people on the team were quite familiar with the term and later down the line hotaru was created foreign s have made a variety of theories and speculations about luang truly being an evil character ever since her debut given the fact that she was shrouded in mystery and possibly due to the fact that she seemingly showed some shady behaviors such as openly flirting with her then boyfriend gong-il student Kim possibly behind the former's back some fans figured there was something off about luong for the record love heart was even quite suspicious of her in kof 14 via win quote these suspicions would turn out to be somewhat true in King of Fighters 15 luon would abandon Gung ill and Kim and would align herself with blue Mary and Vanessa to form team secret agent only to then abandon them for Hein has established in the team's story in their ending luong had a partnership with Hyde assisting him with taking down geese of course seeing that the Sage's eye luong Stole was a fake Hein had to flee alongside ryuji on his so is there going to be a hind luong and yamazaki team in the next kof we shall see kof 99 evolution is an enhanced remake of the original kof-99 released for the Dreamcast on March 30th 2000 in Japan and on May 10 2001 in North America it was also released on Windows PC on December 22nd 2000 changes to the game include two new added stages 3D remodels of returning stages and most notably the introduction of additional special Strikers that were not in the original kof-99 kof-99 Evolution garnered great praise with Gamespot calling it one of the best fighting games on the Dreamcast alongside gato Mark of the Wolves despite said praise the Dreamcast was waning in popularity around the release of these two games and the PS2 had just been released this is where the King of Fighters Nest collection came in which was released on the PS2 and included kof-99 evolution the Gaul was originally said to be even more of a cheap bastard in his kof-94 debut while SNK admits they went overboard with the damage on his genocide cutter they would have gone even further had they not scrapped their initial ideas for Regal's moveset originally snka planned to give rival the ability to copy any of his opponent's special moves upon seeing them only once this idea was scrapped due to Hardware limitations the relic of this idea came in the form of Regal utilizing selection of special moves from other Fighters including geese's Republican trousers kaiserwave and his dark barrier which is often compared to Athena's cycle reflector the King of Fighters a new beginning is a manga adaptation of the King of Fighters 14. the manga is only Loosely based on the events of the game as it contains a significant amount of deviations for one a couple of characters in the game are left out of the manga while nakururu appears in the manga her teammates mui mui and love heart are nowhere to be found all of the DLC characters are also excluded from the manga except hydearn and whip there are also some differences in plot points for example in kof14 we are aware that the scientists that caused the incident with Nelson were also the ones that fitted him with his robotic prosthetic arm however it has never been stated exactly who the scientists are in a new beginning they are identified as the nest cartel then there's that scene involving Clark who is uncharacteristically a ginormous Mark for teasak unmasking king of dinosaurs to find he is indeed the Griffin that totally didn't happen in kof14 for one final example verse versus the main antagonist in kof 14 the game in A New Beginning versus summoned and absorbed by Keith Howard despite not being a hundred percent in lockstep with the kof 14 story producer yashuki Oda has not ruled out the possibility of a new beginning influencing the game in the future in customary fashion director Masahiro Sakurai would release another one of his Mr Sakurai presents videos after the reveal of Terry Bogart in Super Smash Bros ultimate aside from going over Terry's playstyle and abilities he spent the opening portion of the presentation with an overview of the Neo Geo Terry's home game fatal Fury and the King of Fighters later on he would go over the many background cameos from SNK characters in the king of fighter Stadium stage to close this segment Sakurai would address the absence of one of snk's most iconic characters my shrini he would explain her exclusion by stating that Super Smash Bros ultimate is for good boys and girls of many different ages this Infamous phrase became the subject of many jokes and memes from the fans it turns out that this phrase in and of itself was a bit of a jerk the actual reason for her exclusion was pretty obvious the dev team wanted smash ultimate to be accessible to his many age groups as possible and they feared that eyes over it sexually suggested design and nature would have bumped up the rating some fans find this explanation a bit inconsistent seeing there are other female characters with revealing outfits just as an example Zero Suit Samus has two alternative skins where she is in workout gear which could be seen as sexually suggestive due to the amount of skin that is showing another character Bayonetta is overtly a sexual character and even in her final smash she is partially nude for some amount of time the rationale from Sakurai also falls flat because later they would add pyra and Mithra and redesign the character's skin slightly from their Source material game to be less sexually suggestive so my could have been added with just a few tweaks I think almost everyone knows that gato Mark of the Wolves was set to have a sequel also known as godo Mark of the wolf special the original gato Mark of the Wolves 2 was reportedly 70 complete before inevitably getting canceled due to snk's bankruptcy in 2001. originally one of the most sought after pieces of SNK lost media details about the game did resurface over time back in 2016 SNK revealed the character sprite sheet which showed all of the game's previous characters plus a few new ones in July 2022 a Twitter user named 2021k duck stumbled upon two CDs containing assets for the canceled Godot 2. these discs revealed more information about the newcomers as well as several new moves for returning characters most notably a diagonal Rising tackle for Terry on August 7th at Evo 2022 SNK would announce that an all-new fatal Fury installment serving as a sequel to gato Mark of the Wolves had been greenlit this game would be different from the originally lost sequel as it'll be presented in a 3D style different from both Samurai Showdown 2019 and kof15 however including elements from the canceled sequel doesn't seem to be out of the question and that wraps up part one of the ultimate SNK fighting game Iceberg oh boy this was something else to put together not even just the editing process but like also the researching and the crazy part about it is like I said earlier I'm still not done yet but I will cross the bridge to part two when I get there of course I want to close this by giving a special thanks to all the featured guests on this project speedking ZT Vault Cheshire beam and Tech the Fallen you all did an awesome job can't thank you enough obviously you can find their stuff in the description below do check them out because 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Length: 43min 17sec (2597 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 31 2022