John UM
Seeing this title, the focus of the King of Fighters may not be convinced, although the “King of Fighters” series has not had the aura of the past, but the popularity in the country is still very high, there are hundreds of thousands of people on the fighting fish in the past few years to watch “King of Fighters 97” The live broadcast of the scene. Indeed, “King of Fighters” is very popular in China, but the “King of Fighters” series can not keep up with the rhythm of the times
In the popular list of Japanese fighting games in the 2018 Japanese game website, the top five are the “Nintendo Star Big Fighting Special Edition” and its WIIU version, “Street Fighter V” and “ The evil tool XRD2, the latest work of the King of Fighters “King of Fighters XIV” reluctantly fell into the 10th place, is not abandoned in the historical stage of fighting games, but the “King of Fighters” series in Japan is not a day and a half
Recall that in 2000, SNK was once in bankruptcy. After SNK’s boss tried to move to South Korea, SNK was rescued from the mud as SNKPLAYMORE, and the SNK brand has been retained. SNK is not easy, but think about it, the culprit behind it, maybe it is yourself
90’s, the peak era of 2D fighting games.
In the 1990s, with the popularity of “Street Fighter”, Japanese arcade games embarked on the historical stage, and SNK also began to transform through this shareholder style, starting from the original main action through the game, began to develop fighting games. “Hungry Wolf Legend” is the first success of the SNK test water market. After the birth of the classic fighting games such as “The Legend of Hungry Wolf” and “Fist of Dragon and Tiger”, finally in 1994, the classic fighting chaos that brought together the protagonists of their own games was launched. “KOF”, also known as “King of Fighters” series
The “King of Fighters” series can be described as a bon voyage at the beginning. “King of Fighters 95” made a big improvement, and removed the rather unreasonable team mode of 94, in line with the trend of fighting games, “King of Fighters 96” is Joining a variety of jumps, accelerating the rhythm of the game, in one fell swoop, “King of Fighters” became an offensive and colorful fighting game; “King of Fighters 97” system has been relatively mature, the role is quite individual, when the “King of Fighters 98”, The completion degree of the system is already quite high. At this time, SNK has the mind to adjust the balance of the character, so that “King of Fighters 98” not only plays well, but also can be used as a competitive game
In the early 90s, it was not only the SNK fighting game “King of Fighters” series, because the arcade room has a certain trend in Japan and the country, so the development of arcade games can be said to be the highest tide in history. During the period, the shortcomings of the “King of Fighters” series have not yet been revealed
The game quality is not high, the system is too hard.
Recently, the author saw a series of “Annual% @@ クソKOF Conference” in Japan on the Internet. This title is based on the entertainment nature of “The King of Fighters”. The competition is mainly based on the different KOFs of the past generations. It is not the highest evaluation of the two works, “King of the Emperor 98” and “King of the Emperor 2002”, but the series that evaluates the offset, such as “King of Fighters 2000”, “King of Emperor 2001”, etc. “Feces”. During the live introduction, the organizers even vomited many times. The level of “feces” in the “King of Fighters” series is in line with the style of this conference, so entertainment is good
With the current gaze, I watched the entertainment competition of the “King of the Kings” of the past generations, and suddenly felt that the quality of this series is indeed quite poor. This is because of its own reasons. At that time, SNK produced a new “King of Fighters” every year, which was updated and updated to give players a sense of freshness and excitement. However, the rhythm of one year can not support the core of a fight. From the scrutiny, the balance is awful, the BUG emerges endlessly, all the “King of Fighters” series have not been particularly good to improve the hardships, hard to say, only “King of the Emperor 98” and later modified “King of Emperor 2002” and “UM” series It may be considered that the relative system is mature
Many works in the “King of Fighters” series will have some strong performance “no-responsible moves”, so that the video of this “fecal KOF conference”, no matter which generation you play, can see the abuse of non-responsible moves, the so-called “no Responsibility recruiting refers to the trick of making a small flaw and making it difficult to be countered. For example, the MATURE of the “King of the Kings 96” continues to blast the CD, and even the real people are vomiting “Can you not be full of CDs to play the game”? This is a situation in which the role is balanced and extremely irresponsible. In this case, in 2005, “King of Fighters XI” did not improve at all, and GATO’s fear of no responsibility D was vivid
Since the craze of “King of Fighters 98”, the next generations of the King of Fighters have also been disappointing
“King of Fighters 99” in the sound and light effect, indeed achieved more than 98 progress, the new male protagonist K` is also full of popularity, but the system innovation of 99 is not a success, so the word of mouth in the series is not high
“King of Fighters 2000”, although in the picture, music, and overall feel, ushered in another peak of the “King of Fighters” series, the aid system is also very interesting, but it does not dare to compliment the system quality, the system BUG more In normal games, there will be serious cases of inability to continue; almost all popular characters can easily make a KO opponent in the COMBO, and it is very happy to play, but now it seems to be very “feces”
“King of Fighters 2001” as the last work before SNK announced bankruptcy, handed it to EOLITH to make, the quality is also very strange. KULA, BAO and other characters can easily play unlimited COMBO on the side of the board. FOXY can even make the next attack that cannot be defended. In the MEILEE mode, there will be overlapping “hidden mode” bugs, which will make the game unable to run. Summoning aid can also play high-loss COMBO, and you can choose the system of the number of people who appear, it seems interesting, but in fact it is tasteless, two characters play, two role support is the absolute mainstream in the game
The new era, “King of Emperor 2003” was born, the new substitution system makes the pace of the King of Fighters faster, and the new protagonist ASH is also very consistent with the non-mainstream feeling of the new era. However, “King of Emperor 2002” and the previous excellent touches are gone, “King of Fighters 2003” and “King of Fighters 99” are born in innovation and die out in innovation;
“King of Fighters NEOWAVE” as a test of the new substrate of SNK in 2004, the test is extremely “water”. The character template copied “King of Emperor 2002”, only a certain modification of the performance and system, the added role of Cao Chai Zhou actually 5C1HIT did not design HITBACK, and all aspects of the performance of the foot is extremely strong; Gies is directly applying the “Hungry Wolf Legend” era The template, after the two characters dominated the “King of Fighters NEOWAVE”, SNKP officially announced the series of sequels on the new substrate, “King of Kings XI”, the new era of the substrate to make the “King of Fighters” picture to a higher level, but, it still maintains the picture of the low-era era. Even when the “Puppet Emperor 2002UM” was born, the past pixel role was used. It is clear that there is a new engine like “King of Fighters 13”. At that time, “King of Fighters 2002UM” did not have a high-definition reproduction. It is really disappointing
“King of Kings XI” is a very interesting piece in the series. The substitution system in “King of Fighters 2003” has undergone a great evolution in this work. Unconditional substitutions can be carried out at any time, and can be conditional. Use quick substitution in COMBO, you can even use the technical point to replace the person as a rescue, in case the opponent’s COMBO set takes you away. Even so, with some characters, you can quickly opponents in a short time. I fainted, and then continued COMBO, achieving a very easy “set of take away”, positioning is similar to “KOF2000”, everyone can “take away”, balance is also done in general, so the actual competitive still not tall
After the “King of Fighters 12”, it can be said that the “King of Fighters” series can not wake up the nightmare, but also the biggest black history of the “King of Fighters” series. SNK worked very hard to make characters, and finally bid farewell to the game character engine of the pixel era. Using high-definition materials, when the PV was released, it was really dazzling, and many people had more to the next generation of the King of Fighters. More thoughts. Unfortunately, the reality is cruel. The change of “King of Fighters 12” is not successful. The system revision is too simple and loses the gorgeous connection that was originally played in “King of Fighters 2000”. The role of the killing skills is also very small, the past There aren’t many elements, and the proportion of characters that are too big makes the rhythm look awkward. “King of the Kings 12” can be said to be the shortest life of the series, the lowest popularity, the least number of people who have been in contact with the King of Fighters, and even the BOSS of the game have not been produced, can see how unsatisfactory SNK was made at the time. Game
In the era of “King of Fighters 13”, SNKP has never tried the courage of innovation. Conservative and steady is the only way to make the work continue to shine. “King of Fighters 13” does not continue to adopt the proportion of 12 screens and all hand-painted The role, therefore the smoothness of the action is not as good as 12, but the relative feel of a certain degree of correction, coupled with the system is more retro with a similar system of “King of the King of 2002” BC even cancel system, SNKP finally found the system under the next generation screen A new work of picture, feel, and relative balance
However, “King of Fighters 13” has revived the vigor of the new era, and there are more and more people playing, but the accumulation of the “King of Fighters” series has been unable to stop
The increasingly powerful opponent, “King of Fighters” has no advantage.
In the 90s, Capcom’s “Street Fighter” and SNK’s “King of Fighters” were the two 2D fighting machines with the highest fighting reputation. But in the 1990s, SNK was also qualified to use “King of Fighters” to match the “Street Fighter” at that time. The “Street Fighter” series is completely different from “King of Fighters”. Each generation has a small correction. While accumulating updated versions, it consolidates the understanding of 2D fighting games and finally creates a 2D fighting in the era of “Street Fighter 3.3”. The peak of the balance of the game character, in contrast to the balance of the role of “King of the King”, many generations can only be called “self-entertainment”
And in 2003, the “King of Fighters” boom left a glimmer of light, SNK also advertised Capcom as the biggest opponent, made “SNK VS CAPCOM”, and Kapukong produced “ The game quality of CAPCOM VS SNK2 is much higher than “SNK VS CAPCOM”, and the gap between the two has already appeared
In the era when the “Street Fighter IV” appeared in the long-awaited era, SNK took out the “King of Fighters 13” to deal with it. It has already been far away from Karp. The author once had a “97 Party” fan of the boxing, when he first contacted “Street Fighter IV” and “King of Fighters 13”, he said that “Street Fighter IV” is very fun, but “King of Fighters 13” feels very strange, touched A set of BC will be able to kill, not even a weak character can not play, “Street IV” is relatively more fun
This is a story from the experience of a “97 Party”. As a former fan of the King of Fighters, the author also expressed similar feelings. Indeed, although “King of Fighters 13” has made a lot of progress compared to the “King of Fighters” series, Compared with other fighting games of the same period, it is a lot worse
And the decline of “King of the King”, although following the trend of the overall fighting game, but even with the next generation of new fighting coins, “King of Fighters” has no advantage; in 2008, ARC’s “Cang Yi implied The birth of the book, this is a new series that opened the curtain of the next generation of fighting games, and still shines in the first line of arcade fighting games. “King of Fighters 13” is better than the screen than the next generation 3D background, the high-definition material “Cang Yi Apocalypse”, then the role of the “Cang Yi Apocalypse” personality of the people and stories, is worse than the system Too far. “Cang Yi Apocalypse” and “Sin Tools” and other games, joined a very rigorous damage correction, light attack damage is extremely limited, only a slow heavy attack can only produce high fire damage, and under normal conditions It is difficult to play the so-called “set of death”, and introduce elements such as air receiving, and eliminate “a set of death” and “infinite connection” from the system, so that the balance of the system far exceeds the “King of Fighters” series
“cang Yi Apocalypse” also joined a variety of different ground-lifting movements to stop the King of the King’s toilet after the collapse of the ground is suppressed, no energy can not come out, after falling to the ground, according to your choice The direction of the recipient, the other side also needs to make different countermeasures, the gameplay is more flexible, and the old system of “King of the King”, “no solution” is a lot of situations
It can be seen from the success of “Cang Yi Apocalypse” that from the system considerations, many problems can be solved. The lack of the “King of Fighters” series is based on system considerations, but can not make the game complete. Upgrade. Just like “King of Fighters 13”, the damage correction is still so low, many characters touched, as long as there is energy, you can play a big damage COMBO, light attack is super high damage, this system in the game process, and “Cang Yi Apocalypse” “takes a big flaw to have a chance to turn over, but grasps all kinds of small flaws, can accumulate considerable advantages” considerations, opened many grades. “Cang Yi Apocalypse” almost does not allow the “King of Fighters 2000” or “King of Fighters XI”, “some characters just appeared, and did not do anything to die”
As an example, “Chonghuang 2000” opened CLARK to touch a command, followed by 3 JOE aids, playing 2 rounds back and forth, the opponent’s role will die. However, this level of people can be recruited, familiar with almost no mistakes, this is the hard injury caused by the game system of “King of Fighters 2000”. The most terrible thing is that such “King of Fighters” is even more than one generation
And the “Boom” system in “Cang Yi Apocalypse” can also make you really accidentally reveal a huge flaw, you will not be “take away.”
Feelings, the last step in the series of “King of Fighters”.
A lot of people have to ask, because the landlord said “King of the King”, you are not a boxing player, as for? The problem lies here. Why did the “King of the Kings” live well in the 1990s, and the country is also very popular in Japan. How do you post the “King of Fighters” in 2019? The answer is very simple. In the 1990s, Japan was good, domestically, and there was no internet. Everyone had very little entertainment after dinner. The middle school students would go to the game room to play when they were out of school. There was nothing to play. The entertainment of “King of Fighters” was still very high. As the author said, “King of Kings 2000”, with different aids can be compiled different strokes, even the tricks are gorgeous, the difficulty is not high, seriously want to show up, you can also play “King of the Emperor 98” Simple fighting, feels smooth, and even the strokes are refreshing, “King of Fighters” is naturally a good reputation;
After the 21st century, the Internet in Japan has developed rapidly, and China has also become fast. The Chinese have begun to go to Internet cafes, play online games, and through the Internet, people’s horizons have been broadened, and more fun and more reliable games have been born. People have more choices. Entertainment cans no longer rely on the rocker, do not play “King of Fighters”, after school, there are countless ways to play, this is the reason, when people choose more, the horizon is widened, the advantage of “King of Fighters” is no longer Advantages, but the disadvantages are magnified
I played 8 years of “King of Fighters”, and now I look at the Japanese King of Fighters entertainment game. I really want to laugh. The “King of the Kings 96” conference is to select a MARTURE, and constantly CD, to the “King of Emperor 2000” “It is a JOE to help, and when you touch it, you will die. “King of the King of NEOWAVE” is a man and a boat, and walking from the beginning to the end of JB… How can such a game quality be eliminated?
Speaking of this, the mood has come up a bit, but “King of Fighters” is indeed not easy to come all the way. Recently I heard that “King of Fighters 15” has begun to make production, and then look at SNK and doing all the entertainment fights of the sisters. I can only sigh at this company that hates and loves..