'99, in case you missed it, adds the Striker system, wherein you call in a fourth character for special attacks a la Marvel Vs. The ubiquitous omake section includes a movie viewer for endings you've encountered and a massive art gallery, like the one in the Saturn version of Metal Slug. During the brief time I played it, I preferred it over the watered-down '98 (original characters? Who woulda thunk of it?), and the PlayStation version fixes some of the problems with the character selection - Iori and Kyo are selectable from the start, for example. The majority of us will have to settle for '99, but that's not actually so bad. KOF '99 Millennium Battle is the penultimate installment in SNK's team fighting franchise - it will soon be eclipsed by KOF 2000, the last game in the series, but that one promises to be rarer than hen's teeth even when its tiny window of release is open. The weather animation isn't quite so smooth as it might have been, but the intended effect still comes through. The first fight it will be overcast, the next it will drizzle a bit, then it's pouring down rain, then the sun comes out. The backgrounds, even if they aren't arcade-perfect, are a lot of fun at times, cycling through different weather and lighting states for each fight a la '98. The animation isn't half as jerky as it was in KOF '95, and there are more and better characters to select from.
Enjoy.īut does the game still look good? Sure. Oh, there's also a movie of the SDM Mary Dynamite Swing, because I like it. Thanks go out to Kao Megura for his massive KOF '99 FAQ, which contains a helpful list of all the poses.
The weaker animation in the PlayStation port is occasionally sadly noticeable here, but the poses are still fun to see. Kensou, and several others that we thought were worth seeing. So here we have two montage movies with K' vs. By '98 and '99, this phenomenon reached slightly silly proportions, with long lists of poses ranging from the basic to the ridiculous.
As you might remember, starting in '96 or so, certain characters would have unusual pose animations just before they started a fight - Kyo and Iori would go through the motions of their rivalry, Mai would hit on Andy, and so on. Movie Update Just for the fun of it, we've updated our preview of KOF '99 with two new movies of some of the cuter special intro poses from the game.
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