KOF-i - Iori Stage (Factory) - A Quick Look

This is just going to be a quick post before i go off to sleep (almost 4am here!).

When i read the notes from the translation of the recent KOFXIII blog entry about Iori over on Orochinagi's forums, i went off to Youtube to have a look at some high quality videos of the stage to see if i could spot any of these 'details' that were going to be in his stage.

A little while ago i got the idea to have a look at the original 95 stage and compare it to the KOF-i version just to see if there were any differences or how close it was to the original.

So i've taken a few screenshots and stuck them together using Photoshop.

As i mentioned i had previously looked up the stage on Youtube to see if i could spot anything and although at the time i wasn't too sure i just managed to confirm by looking at one of my screenshots more clearly that Rocky from Robo Army is also on the scrap heap near Candy Diamond.

As for the stages themselves, at first glance they seem pretty similar. After studying them a bit more i've started to notice the subtle changes like the buildings off in the distance have changed, and various parts of the factory are different.

I'm not sure if i remember correctly but i vaguely remember there being stages in the Gallery section for KOFXII, hopefully you can view the stages in the console version of XIII so i can take a better look without life bars and characters blocking the view.

KOF-i - Versus Replay Data

Last night on the tube journey home i managed to get a couple of games on KOF-i against Cristina via local bluetooth wireless.

Since it was my first time trying out versus on KOF-i i saved the replays and uploaded them to Youtube.





Although you can't tell from these replays the game has a slight slowdown when played over bluetooth.

From what i remember though about other games i've played over bluetooth also have this issue, but it is still playable and i didn't think it affected gameplay.

It's a shame that online versus wasn't implemented as not many of my friends own an iPod Touch/iPhone and also play KOF. It was quite fun to play against someone on this version of the game.

Also on a semi-related note some things i have previously forgotten to mention whilst doing various writes ups about KOF-i.

Unlike the console version of the game whilst in HD mode if you activate NeoMax it still takes 3 super bars (they changed this to 2 bars in the console version if i remember correctly).

Whilst getting more comfortable with the game and experimenting with more combos, although it should have been immediately obvious, i discovered some combos are not possible due to the simplified special move inputs. (For example certain special moves will always come out as a hard punch/kick version making combos which require the light version not possible.)

I hope that SNKP will continue the support for this version of the game in the future, or at least port the console version on to the 3DS/Vita so i can play it with a d-pad!

Since i'm always carrying my iPod everywhere and rarely have much time nowadays to play consoles at home it's been really great having a portable version of the game, especially on those journeys to and from work where i can mess around in training mode.

More portable KOF please!

KOF-i Dialogue - K' Versus Fatal Fury Team

Another set of dialogues featuring K', this time against the Fatal Fury team.

As always K' being gloomy (and a bit emo), Terry even offering him a bit of counselling.

K' Versus Joe Higashi:

K' Versus Terry Bogard:

K' Versus Andy Bogard:

DontDropThatCombo - Athena Combo Tutorial

DontDropThatCombo has uploaded the next part of his series of combo videos, this time featuring Athena Asamiya. Going to be studying this one alot since i actually pick Athena in XIII, hopefully there's not any changes in her combos between the arcade and console version.

I quite like the combo @6:35 (Combo 46) with 5 of her Shining Crystal Bits.

KOFXIII Blog Update - EX/Flame Iori / KOFXIII Asian Version Pre-Order Bonus

SNKPlaymore has updated the official KOFXIII blog today with a few videos of EX/Flame Iori, much like the Saiki and Billy Kane updates before it, it shows a couple of combos along with his NeoMax.

I tried to Google Translate the blog entry but it made even less sense then me trying to slowly browse through it with my limited Japanese. I'm sure Professor or Toxico will translate it over on MMCafe at some point soon.

So far EX/Flame Iori is looking good, i remember hearing a bit of Dune's interview on Elive a while ago saying that he would be incredibly strong.

Anyway check out the vids:







[Edit]: SNKPlaymore HK has also uploaded a KOFXIII Promotional Video, it's the same one we've probably all seen a million times now but adds a small clip at the end showing the pre-order bonus that will be included with the Asian version of the game.

I think it says that it is a Phone Rest/Holder, not too sure.

KOF-i Dialogue - K' Versus Team K'

Been a while since i've done one of these again...Apologies for not being able to keep to once a day like i planned to do.

The next part of the dialogues with K' up against himself and his team.

K' Versus K':

K' Versus Kula Diamond:

K' Versus Maxima:

Also if you haven't seen them already, Gunsmith has posted up some more videos from the Take All Comers event that was held a few weeks ago.

Game A-Cho - 98 and 02UM Videos, and Others.

Some new videos were uploaded to the Game A-Cho Youtube channel over the weekend, haven't quite had the chance to start watching the 02UM ones but i did watch most of the 98 videos.

For some reason i always find watching 98 really entertaining to watch compared to other KOF games even though i rarely play it anymore (aside from turning it on time to time to play around with a few combos).

I've always found it a bit strange when watching high level matches why not many players ever seem to max up when they have loads of bars just sitting there? As i seem to remember you do more damage when you are in max mode but i've seen alot of matches where players are just sitting on their stocks.

Judging from what i've seen so far from the A-Cho 98 videos it seems to be the same few guys playing. 

KOF98:





KOF02UM:





Additionally there have been some new uploads from SMOAI2010 (featuring 98UM and XI), linnesaka (Real Bout 2), and the latest video from DontDropThatCombo KOFXIII Combo Video featuring Maxima.