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| crom
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|  "KoF neo blood2: review, toughts, comparsions:"
, posted Mon 30 Dec 07:46
Well, I played the rom the rest of sunday and it's time to post my first impressions:
Overall, I'm surprised- it's good.
First the bad:
Obviously, this can't compare to the Neo Geo Kof's- it's a handheld-game. Tough I'm sure there is more power in the gba and developers just need time to learn how to deal with lesser catridge space again.
The character roster is still small for a kof-game- and SFA3u proved that you CAN put in a fair number of characters with decent animation.
The backgrounds have no animation at all as far as I can say (if you leave paralax scrolling and transparent storms-just another layer, aside)
Again compaired to SFA3u, it seems the developers have used worse compression- both games are 64MBit, yet there is much more in SFA3u.
Mai's breasts- they are less animated AND smaller and that not only compared to the big-brother KoFs, but also the the first Neo Blood. I hope that's not nintendos acting- just because the GBA has a handheld monopole, no one need censorship AGAIN.
The new characters are weaker in every term- animation, moves, look. And their outline looks somewhat different to the other characters- they look more like guilty-gear characters than kof characters.
Okay, enough mourning, now the good stuff!
Obviously, the developers have learned from the last GBA-Kof-
Better collision and gameplay BY FAR, Better animation, even some improvements to the neo geo games- not only are the characters slightly more collorfull than their neo-geo counterparts, but the backgrounds too! Also,
the developers are starting to use GBA's mode-7 abbilites-currently for special attacks only and not all to spectacular, but hey, it's the right way!
You get exlusive new characters! Something KoF2002 has forgotten to do.
The boss, aka Goenitz Mini-me, is fun. He is not all to hard but funny. I mean he is the smallest Kof-boss ever! I allways wanted a midget for a boss.
Artwork rules! You get great artwork that compares to Garou and some other, better than the last three neo geo kofs.
There seems to be loads of secrets, but deffinitly not as many as SFA3a had.
Music is good. Not great, but good.
The endings (artwork!) rule.
Well, all in all, I'm getting this game the day the US-version is out- I really considered ordering the jap. version yesterday, but there seems to be enough of story to make me want to wait. And, sometimes they even improve the games (again SFA3a). For now, this is the second best fighting game for the GBA (right after- you guess it- SFA3u). I give it a 8 out of 10.!
Well, that beeing said, some things I have noticed- The two new female characters ARE NOT the secretaries of Rugal. They look VERY different, and as far as I can say, they are complitley new to the KoF-universe. The new guy seems to be a sort of Kindergarten-cop, he's allways hanging arround with kids.
There is little extra-animations for characters- but it's there- Iori and Kyo still can't get along. Boy, this guys need 128MB catridges!
The story is somewhere between 99'. 2000 and 2001- my guess is 99' and 2000. I don't speak japanese as you can obviously see.
The boss (I guess) is a clone gone wrong of goenitz and/or 99'ies bad guy. I have no clue who the guy in the background is.
That's it, now I wait for your input!
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| crom
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| "Update: a direct comparsion to SFA3u!" , posted Thu 2 Jan 06:27
well played it even more-
now it's time I did a direct comparsion to SFA3U:
S3=street fighter zero 3 upper
Kx2= king of fighters neo blood 2
Kx2:gameplay
Good old kof gameplay, tough many animations/favorite characters are missing. But a four button-fighter, new characters weaker, therefore 7/10
S3:gameplay
As close as it can currently get on GBA to the arcade version- except the four buttons-problem. And the new characters are unbalanced (Maki- kneel+long kick=overeficient). Still, 7/10
Kx2:graphics,
Collorfull and vibrant. Uses special effects nothing spectacular. animation mediocre, big characters. Uses mode7 for specials, looks okay. Backgrounds okay, no animation tough.Great artwork, cool menues. 6/10
S3:
Collorfull, small characters, better backgrounds, with animation and palete swiping. Very good animation (except for the new characters). Still, as it's gba, 8/10.
Kx2:sound
Better than last year, voices nice but few, music as good (or bad) as KoF2000. 6/10.
S3:
Toned down for the gba, still at least 50% of it in- okay but could be much better. 6/10
Kx2
Cool artwork, great new boss (Goenitz mini-me!) great artwork endings, seems to have a story. Also, totally new characters, tough weaker, a nice addition to the KoF-universe.
Seems to have enough secrets. Bad- the character roster features only 21-Characters
among them no favorites like K', Kula, Maxima. Also, Mai's breasts toned down slightly.
Still, 8/10.
S3:
Loads of secrets, every character from the home version plus some new.
Still, less would have been more, as there is
no endings, just text. Also, the new characters have horrible artwork and the SF3 guy also looks awfull.
Then again it has 35+ fighters-
7/10.
You see, SFA3u wins slightly, so if you are going to get one fighter for the gba get the one that suits your personal fave better. But if you own SFA3u and want another fighter, make it this one. As for now, there is no better SNK-port for the gba as it beats the rest of the fighting games (GGX, Kx1, SSF2T and others) easily.
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