Oh, bah. So big a post, last one was, and yet I forgot to say some things. Just for the sake of completion, here they are.
In one of the King of Fighters games I downloaded, the name of the team is shown. Yuri is from the "Art of Fighting" team. Art of Fighting is a game for the Super NES. So that is how it went after all - there was Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting. When Alck said she was from some early KoF game in the SNES, he was probably thinking of that one. If I knew of that, I would probably have downloaded the right SNES ROM and spared myself of setting up Kawaks and downloading dozens of Neo Geo and CPS1 and CPS2 ROMs and making SSF2T work on my sister's computer. My memory from Yuri is probably from Art of Fighting itself.
Good thing I did not know that.
On another subject: the green guy with claws and the stupid looking guy whose scenario is a Japanese theatre are both from Samurai Shodown, which I claimed to have played enough. That is true. I liked Samurai Shodown more than Street Fighter, at the time - it looked so beautiful. But it had two problems: first, Street Fighter was much, much easier to find (for renting, in arcade shops, etc); second, most characters had similar commands and looked cute (not implying I find Dhalsim cute - I mean the characters were easy on the eyes). Samurai Shodown, however, had complex commands (for me, at the time - I could barely pull out a quarter circle) and only three characters I even dared touching: Charlotte, the girl with the hawk, and the guy with the wolf. I honestly never paid much attention to the other. And I always had the luck of fighting some standard guy in the initial battles (and often losing right away, too).
Therefore, somehow, after the party at the buffet, I indeed never again noticed those two guys were from Samurai Shodown. There was always a feather or a piece of armor blocking my view of them, in the rare occasions we came across.
Last thought. If I had the means, I would make it so a computer character in a fighting game could not ever use the same attack more than two times within 15 seconds or other space of time. I am perfectly okay with "I lost to Ryu", but I feel like walking away when I see I was "defeated by Hadoken". That is way too frustrating - and the fighter's voice announcing whichever attack he is unleashing for the thirty-seventh time that round keeps echoing in my mind for the next few days.
I will do / post something useful, eventually.
Posted by Etienne at March 3, 2003 05:00 PM