SNK Playmore’s King of Fighters franchise has just received the utterly inexplicable addition of a scrolling shooting game using characters from the series, provisionally titled “The King of Fighters Sky Stage”.
Fans of classic and eminently stylish 2D fighting game series, which after innumerable revisions now boasts a huge stable of much loved characters, have been puzzled by the news.
Some look forward to it, whilst others point out the gulf between the genres. One observer suggests that SNK Playmore is merely attempting to ride on the Touhou bandwagon…
The game, described as an “othodox vertical scrolling shooter”, will be released on the Xbox Live Arcade, with dates and prices still unannounced.
Via Famitsu.
This seems to be the equivalent of the Street Fighter cast suddenly sprouting wings and taking to the air in a generic shooter… We have towonder what their marketing department is thinking?
there is nothing wrong i guess. Street fighter has some puzzle games. So why cant KOF has shmup?
And I think its very late if people want to get mad about this, because SNK released some board game based of KOF characters years ago. Its nothing new, really
It’s coming out of his head!
“attempting to ride on the Touhou bandwagon”
Yeah, because Touhou invented vertical shooters.
So… KyoMokou anyone?
and once again I kindly ask for the artist of this pic. Like I said, it would be cool if it was provided when its available below the pic