Bread, Cheese, and 20 minutes of furious masturbation!!!!
This game looks like it's shaping up to be very good. SNK-Playmore might yet prove itself capable of something up to the calibur of the dearly departed SNK. The sprites look great, the action shows something that looks like a lot more of a fighting game than SVC, and while some of the character choices really make me wonder, I can't wait to play it.
Since the very fun King of Fighters 2003 and the very shitty Samurai Showdown 5, SNK-Playmore has officially abaondoned the Neo Geo. SNK did some truely amazing things with that system for some 12 years. Nonetheless, it's time to move on. So SNK-Playmore is now making it's 2d fighters for Sammy's Atmoswave. Atmoswave is the platform Sammy uses to bring you Guilty Gear, the over the top, fast paced anime-style fighting series we all love. Essentially, any character in this game who's been in a king of fighters hasn't been redrawn, per-se. Instead, the resolution and detail of the sprites has been enhanced to better suit the look of the game and so the characters don't look shitty next to the newcomers. It's basically what they did with King of Fighters '94 : Rebout (remake of KOF94 on atmoswave). A lot of people might groan about the 'laziness' of SNK-playmore by not just drawing new sprites, but I think it's a great idea. By doing this, all the characters you've come to love playing will now look a lot better and polished, but they'll also play EXACTLY the way you remember them since all of there animations are identical to what they've always been. This means that if you've mastered Iori, you'll feel right at home picking him right off the bat.
So far, the roster is pretty huge, and from what I understand they're still adding more. At the moment we already have Terry Bogard, Marco Rossi (Metal Slug), Washizuka, Nakoruru, K', Mai, Geese, Yuki (Last Blade), Ai, Kim, Tung Fu Ru, Asura (Samurai Showdown : Warriors Rage), Hanzo (World Heroes), Fuma (World Heroes), Kyo, Iori, Rock, Kisarah Westfield, Haohmaru, Cyber Woo, Kaede, Akari, Ryo (As Mr. Karate), Mr. Big, Shermie, Hotaru Futaba (Garou), Robert Garcia, Lee Pai Long (Art of Fighting), Moriya Minakata, Genjuro Kibagami, Jin Chonrei, Jin Chonshu, Shiki, Mudman (what the fuck?), Athena, and Mars People (Metal Slug).
All the characters who've been completely redrawn (again all those not from KoF of SVC) look great. Marco come complete with special moves based off the special weapons in metal slug. One super move he turns into a zombie and vomits blood ala Metal Slug 3. I'm glad to see hanzo and Fuuma from World heroes. While that series was pretty shitty hanzo and Fuuma's character designs and moves were origional and good enough to include them. They look great in this game too and look like 2 I'll definately be playing. I can't comprehend why the fuck they put mudman in though. I hate that design and the voice is annoying. One of those "How the fuck did he get in here?" characters.
For anyone skeptical about my excitement, you'll find some nice movies here : http://www.snkplaymore.jp/official/nbc/download/index.html
Take a look and enjoy. I'm looking forward to it.