The look and feel of The King of Fighters ’99 is quite a bit darker than the other games, which also shows through in the soundtrack. The character portraits, while still by SNK’s house artist Shinkiro, have a much more modern-feeling, cleaner look. Taking a page from the Capcom’s frantic “ Versus” games, King of Fighters ’99 introduces Strikers into the mix. Now each team consists of four characters, but only three are let into battle. The fourth is designated as a Striker, who can be called out a limited number of times to execute special attacks. There are also two special modes that can be activated when the power bar is at max with three stocks – Counter Mode, which strengthens offense, allowing to execute super moves infinitely during this short period of time, and even combo in them and Armor Mode, which enhances defense but disables any super special moves. The “Extra” mode from the previous games is gone entirely, while the tactical roll has changed a bit – instead of just dodging backwards, characters leap back then forward again. The player is also graded after every fight, and assigned “Battle Points” – the only way to fight the true last boss is by consistently keeping the ranking high. The final boss is Krizalid, who takes on two different forms before finally going down. KoF ’99 also is the first game that removes the characters cheering from the sidelines, for whatever reason. Alas, due to weird censorship issues, the blood was removed from the American versions, and Whip is missing a move involving a firearm. The King of Fighters ’99 was ported to PlayStation and Dreamcast, with the Dreamcast version subtitled to “ Evolution” – both were brought to America by Agetec. The Dreamcast version has 3D backgrounds once again – some of them are recreations of stages from the arcade game and one or two are completely new – and they look much sharper than they did in KoF ’98. Nice to see her make a proper return after all these years.The character select screens have been touched up a bit, too. Whip's epic return in KOF14 worked pretty well in 3D. The majority of her moveset is nicely designed and interesting as well.
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Was some of SNK's best sprite-work to date outside of the Metal Slug series and really made a statement at the time. To overstate my point a bit, Whip's animation in KOF '99 and onwards Her confidence is sexy! Not to mention her cool idle stance and walk animations. It's also nice to see a fighting gameįemale not ultra-sexualized to gain attention. Whip is definitely memorable in the series. While she can be kinda cheap and annoying in gameplay, and her name She's a cheater, but Whip brought some crazy unique / next-gen stuff to KOF!
However, Whip even pulls out a freakin' gun and fires it during one of her super The cool bros of KOF brought fire to the tournament, so I suppose a whip is fair game in any case. (On that note, why is such a weapon suddenly 100% fair game in KOF tournaments? Kinda cheating, no?) Whip is one of theįew KOF characters who uses a weapon. Best 2D 'whip' sprite-work I've seen since When Whip debuted in KOF '99, I was immediately impressed with her animation and design. Of Fighters 2003, The King of Fighters XI, The King Of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match, The King Heidern's mercenary unit under her current alias, Whip.Ģ001, The King of Fighters 2002, The King She used Sally as a codename to join the military's Axe Platoon unit. The assumption that he was her brother before she escaped from the cartel. Due to NESTS experimentation on her body, she's able to manipulate her specialized whip with ease. Regardless of whether she is a clone or not, she is called Seirah by people who knew her in NESTS. Whip is a clone of the real Seirah, who was K's biological older sister who died after being abducted by NESTS. Whip originally joined the NESTS organization in KOF '99. She obtained the nickname "Muchiko" (which translates to "Whip Girl") due to her affinity for whips. Whip, whose real name is Seirah, is an amnesiac girl
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