Kof XIII announcement and info

[error1]

Dang it, he's the only cool KoF character other than the bosses imo.

You're wrong Shingo outclasses all of them

[Doopliss]

I don't even know who that is.

[Maj]

Shingo is Kyo's sidekick. He's basically SNK's Dan.

[Xenozip.]

Shingo kiiiiiiiick!

But yeah I hope Maxima and Kula are on K' team. Considering how large Ralf and Clark are now that would mean Apocalypse sized Maxima. Full screen Mongolian let's go.

[Don Vecta]

Shingo is Kyo's sidekick. He's basically SNK's Dan.

Well, there's a big difference between Shingo and Dan, though.

Devs make Dan weak on purpose since it's a supposed fun character, but Shingo, even not taken seriously persona-wise, in gameplay it's extremely solid, he usually ranks from B tiers to even A's.

[Xenozip.]

They actually made Dan and Sean good in the games they debuted in, but yeah after that they became intentionally bad.

KoF13 is actually looking kind of hype. I hope it does well. Or at least that it doesn't do poorly. Aesthetics aside, the gameplay seems to flow nicely. Mai being able to juggle a lot sounds like a lot of fun lol, hype for that ryuu enbu and musasabi no mai spam.

[error1]

They actually made Dan and Sean good in the games they debuted in, but yeah after that they became intentionally bad.

Sean yah, but have you ever played alpha 1? Defiantly the worst character in the game. The only character without chain combos. No range or invincibility on krk and gadouken has horrible range and speed. Alpha 2 dan was much better then alpha dan if just for the wider variety of taunts.
Shingo on the other hand has always been able to kick the asses and personalty and story wise is much closer to Sean

[Xenozip.]

http://bbs.kofunion.net/attachment/Mon_ ... 447d78.jpg
This has to be fake, Maxima not huge enough.

Sean yah, but have you ever played alpha 1? Defiantly the worst character in the game. The only character without chain combos. No range or invincibility on krk and gadouken has horrible range and speed. Alpha 2 dan was much better then alpha dan if just for the wider variety of taunts.
Shingo on the other hand has always been able to kick the asses and personalty and story wise is much closer to Sean

Oh god, for some reason I thought he debuted in A2, lol. That's how very little I ever played A1.

[Xenozip.]

http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/video/g ... m.flv.html

Mukai? http://www.justnopoint.com/xenoblip/tmp/kof13-mukai.png

[Dark_Chaotix]

Yeah he is the one at the front

[Xenozip.]

Any sort of clues or announcements on when they will "reveal" more characters or update at all?

[Dark_Chaotix]

Any sort of clues or announcements on when they will "reveal" more characters or update at all?

not at this point no

[Raine]

Next loketest starts on 24th April apparently. Should expect to see some more characters revealed then.

[Don Vecta]

Vice and Takuma comfirmed.

[Keiko]

Vice and Takuma comfirmed.

Vice and Takuma Artwork: http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/im ... f13new.jpg

[onReload]

OK, Takuma is a bunch of lumber, figures

Vice isn't HUGE but with that face/haircut...I dunno she looks like a woman getting ready to retire or something

[Keiko]

Some new stuff from KOF XIII Website:

"THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIII" 　NEO MAX超必殺技＆MAXキャンセル デモ : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErIC7vlI7v0

http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/official/ ... 22_K08.jpg
http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/official/ ... 22_K09.jpg

Vice & Takuma Sprite (i'm very dissapointed with the new Takuma stance):
http://www.speksnk.org/speksnk/hilo_kof ... e_vice.gif
http://www.speksnk.org/speksnk/hilo_kof ... takuma.gif

[Don Vecta]

Takuma's stance it's a tip on the hat to Doppo Orochi from Baki the Grappler. Both Doppo and Takuma are based on master Mas Oyama.
And no, he's not fat either.

Oh, and dunno exactly, but there it's an unconfirmed rumor that Mature and Vice are INDEED dead, and now they are fashionable spirits protecting Orochi...

kinda lame plot hole excuse to re-introduce them to the series, if you ask me.

[Keiko]

Some Famitsu Scans and a little bit more info about KOF XIII:

http://i426.photobucket.com/albums/pp34 ... 1271922167
http://i426.photobucket.com/albums/pp34 ... 1271922112
http://i426.photobucket.com/albums/pp34 ... 1271922227
http://i426.photobucket.com/albums/pp34 ... 1271921469

- New moves for the characters:

ラルフ：必殺技「ガドリングアタック」、超必殺技「馬乗りバルカンパンチ」
Ralf : Gattling attack & Unamori Vulcan Punch.

ユリ：必殺技「空牙（ユリ超アッパー）」
Yuri : Chou upper

キング：屈みＤが特殊技に変更
King : Capacity to cross up with her D (I'm getting this like I should?)

不知火舞：必殺技「溜めムササビの舞」
Mai : Charged (ground) Musasabi no Mai.

アッシュ：「サンキュロットモード追加（必殺技が溜めなしで発動可能、キャセル可能技が追加）、パワーゲー ジ消費量が２本に変更」、超必殺技「ジェルミナール」
Ash : Sans cullote mode (effect from XI), but only upon 2 bars usage. Germinal is back, as we know already.

シェン：「爆真モード追加（攻撃力アップ）、パワーゲージ消費量2本に変更」
Shen : SSJ effect is back, but only upon 2 bars usage.

アンディ：超必殺技「絶・飛翔拳」
Andy : New Hishouken DM

鎮元斎：必殺技「瓢箪をぐびりとあおると攻撃力アップ＆防御力ダウン」
Chin : Drink counter that power ups his attack power.

[Xenozip.]

Yeah, Takuma is definitely not fat. I think it will make a lot more sense when it's in motion. His gi is just really much too loose, so it just looks like he has some big ole floppy manboobs. But it's just loose cloth.

[Don Vecta]

shit load of new info.

Hwa Jai confirmed. Some gameply vids of him. Looks like a Joe clone but with some real good ass kicking new DM's and some good value attacks.

http://cyberfanatix.com

[Keiko]

OMG! Hwai Jai!, looks cool.

[Xenozip.]

Vids? Links please.

[edit]: nevermind.

[Don Vecta]

http://cyberfanatix.com/k-confirmed-on- ... ters-xiii/
K' confirmed on KOF XIII.

[Xenozip.]

Uhh.. is it just me or did they change the theme for the Psycho Soldier team?

It's still super genki and whatnot but I remember it being's obnoxiously genki before.. am I imagining things?

[onReload]

hwa jai has got a dragon thing going i see,

dragon kick, dragon [nomi] (drink)...then some kanji i can't read for the life of me, the second part being "[kanji i can't read] finish"

sdms are:

"dragon dance" and "dragon backbreaker"

so yeah. instead of tiger kick, you've got dragon kick. i'm pretty sure they can think of more animals, but i guess "goose upper" would sound stupid.

[Xenozip.]

Aww Maxima looks so normal compared to what they did to Ralf and Clark. I was hoping for a relative increase, where Maxima takes up like half the screen.

[Xenozip.]

OK, so, Kula looks fucking great with the new sprite effects. I didn't think they did much to her sprite when I saw her neutral stance, but seeing her in motion is like whoa.

Takuma does sort of look normal in motion, except it kinda still looks like he has downs syndrome and a really tiny head.

Maxima, lol. He's Maxima.

[Xenozip.]

Mature infinite.

And tougeki is already making rules against the Vice glitches that I'm sure everyone's heard about already. There's rules against the Hwa Jhai and Ralf ones but those don't seem as serious. Hmm. Well I guess we won't be seeing any Vice at SBO.

[Don Vecta]

Mature infinite.

And tougeki is already making rules against the Vice glitches that I'm sure everyone's heard about already. There's rules against the Hwa Jhai and Ralf ones but those don't seem as serious. Hmm. Well I guess we won't be seeing any Vice at SBO.

*suffers since he's a Vice player*