Those types of replacement characters never work out. He’s just the uninspired replacement for something uninspired by default. Nameless has much of the same moves and the same basic story.Īnd nobody cares. When they rereleased King of Fighters 2002 as Unlimited Match, they decided to remake him into Nameless. Even with the mountains of promotional images in King of Fighters XIV’s gallery, there’s not a sign of K9999. They hated him so much that they erased him from King of Fighters history. SNK got their hands back on King of Fighters, took one look at K9999 and decided, “Nope!” Not because of any possible legal ramifications, but because they just hated him. It was less homage and more of a lawsuit waiting to happen.
When Eolith had the King of Fighters franchise, they introduced K9999, a pissy clone of K’ who was completely 100% Tetsuo Shima from Akira. NAMELESS First appearance: KOF02 Unlimited Match T? Under dislikes, his profile states “airplanes.”ġ01.
I wonder if it’s a coincidence that he resembles Mr. No joke, I just looked up footage of him a minute ago to remind myself what he’s like and I already forgot.
#THE KING OF FIGHTERS 2002 SERIES#
Being introduced as a partner to Vanessa did him no favors and makes him one of the most forgettable members of the massive series roster. Seth looks like he could be worthwhile, but his blandness level is off the charts. SETH First appearance (striker): KOF99: EvolutionFirst fighting appearance: KOF00 Why were you not using them during the fighting portion?! 102. To add insult, her winpose has her pull out swords. Even fat characters in King of Fighters have more going for them than “eats a lot.” There are literally two game endings based on this. Xiangfei’s big trait as a character is that she’s a skinny girl who can eat a lot.
#THE KING OF FIGHTERS 2002 TV#
You ever watch a TV show in which they have to write off a character and replace him/her with someone completely underwhelming? You ever watch that last season of Welcome Back, Kotter when Travolta left? That’s how I felt when Mai Shiranui left the Women Fighters Team and they put Xiangfei in her place. LI XIANGFEI First appearance: Real Bout Fatal Fury 2First KOF appearance: KOF99 Capcom, where he randomly pops out of Hugo Andore’s afro. Then when King of Fightersbecame a four-person-per-team thing, they added an annoying little kid with the kind of hat that makes you want to bash him with a hammer.īao’s saving grace is his inexplicable cameo appearance in SNK vs. BAO First appearance: KOF99Īs you can probably guess by now, I don’t really like the Psycho Soldiers faction. He has those supers that make him seem like he’s filled with excessive power that he can’t handle. Bao was already the lowest bar on that team, but even he has some stuff going for him. Momoko adds nothing that I can get behind. MOMOKO First appearance: KOFXIĪnother Psycho Soldier added and, surprise, it’s another annoying little shit kid. He’s just a run-of-the-mill evil guy who sucks and dies after losing. Nobody ever wonders which Capcom character would be Magaki’s VS. Nothing about his plans or monologuing are in any way unique. There’s nothing that stands out about him other than being all evil-looking and cheap. If there was ever a cookie-cutter SNK boss, it’s this guy. Original Zero is less interesting than the clone, even if he does have a pet lion.īono was right. I could have gone my whole life without having to see Zero again, thank you very much. Because, you see, the one that died in 2000 was a clone and this is just a boring-ass subboss who is supposed to be superior. A year later, the penultimate boss is Zero again, only he has a different stance, more strikers, no mustache, and white hair. Not the worst, but certainly not the best. So King of Fighters 2000 introduces and kills off Zero, a mustachioed traitor to NESTS who makes for an average boss fight. Ron is nothing but a dud and Lin is right there with him. The most he gets is showing up in a jokey daydream sequence from Kensou in one of the endings. Still, they spend a couple years having him show up to hype up a post-NESTS storyline about some kind of Dragon Spirit. Instead of fighting him during the NESTS storyline, he only appears briefly as an assist. SNK and later Eolith spend all this time building Ron up as this huge menace that the heroes will have to fight down the line. Lin is introduced as a way to herald Ron, who is Lin’s evil and more powerful counterpart. Part of his ranking as dead last is guilt by association. I’m less in awe about how ninja rad he is and instead feel…strangely queasy? Even though there’s originality in Lin’s attacks, they aren’t especially good.
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