A handful of Neo Geo Battle Coliseum characters 2 original sprites of Buriki One characters Silber and Gai Tendo not to mention Sho Hayate and Jyazu from Kizuna Encounter all this and more without having to spend extra and only needed to play the game
Absolutely, The PS2 version was an excellent port and the progressive scan kept the sprites clean, unfortunatelt the Atomiswave hardware couldn't pull this off which was a real shame. Same thing happened to KOF NEOWAVE and NGBC, the PS2 ports are far superior to the Atomiswave carts. However this wasn't the case for the Rumble Fish games which looked rough on PS2 and the zoom action was nerfed.
@@ramijackson3978 Where is your source on this? I keep seeing people everyone parroting this statement, and yet no one can direct me to when SNK said this
This was the one KOF that convinced me that changing the format from elimination 3V3 into Tag/Elimination 3V3 KOF was the way to go. What a huge leap from how bare (and fairly borked) 2003 was. XI is like, up there with all my favorite KOF games in both gameplay/roster AND OST (not so much the AST this time, the AST instruments sound a little off in some songs).
What’s under-appreciated is that 2003 & XI is that if the players want to, they can also play matches in the classic “Team” format instead of the “Arcade” Tag format. The bold roster for those two games also aged better over time as SNK was daring enough to drop certain mainstays (Andy & Robert) from the roster in order to make room for newer faces and more interesting teams… …but the reception to some of the omissions (Mai & Leona) prove _why_ they shouldn’t have been left out in the first place.
Another cool factor of the ps2 port is that it lets you play as classic 3v3 team with no Tag systems, so people who only prefer classic KOF can enjoy it too
Literally one of the best KOF games ever! I love this game. The cast is awesome, the sprites and music are beautiful, every character is fun. The game is a broken mess but it's a beauty in all of the ways MVC2 is.
I agree, I hope snk can experiment with the tag system of 11 again maybe even at ot with some max mode spice. Even though it would make the game a bit more complex and broken But I think it could be interesting if implemented right. This, fame really understood its vibe. From the intro, music and style.
@@aceattorneygeneral3922 that's true (based SNK), but I was talking about the base game colors xD I just think it's funny how there's stuff like smurf ash, goblin shingo, demon kyo, whatever tf they were doing with mary etc.
Easily one of my top 3 favourite KOFs alongside Kof XIII and 2000, I love almost everything about this game, the soundtrack and the character designs in Oswald, Shion and Elizabeth to the stages, the story here is also good showing some really important plot points for the future and in terms of gameplay it was a blast to do those tag combos once you learned how team synergy worked my team was Kyo/Ash/Benimaru. I remember spending hours in the challenge mode and playing along with my sibling and friends to unlock everything and have such a fun time The final boss in Magaki was really a nightmare to fight against easily one of the hardest bosses in Kof history. Also the arcade mode in terms of balance was something the players were used to and having a new balance mode in arrange imo made things complicated for players, the game should have been launched with the arranged balance and stages only if SNK wanted to improve the game's balance. Overall, this game represents the end of an era for 2d fighting games (one of the best ever made) and Kof in general as this would be the last mainline Kof game to use traditional 2d sprites which were already being reused since 1996. The game is similar to NGBC except it should have had a digital release for Xbox 360 like that game which would have resulted in increased sales.
Haven't played this one but the presentation is jarring compared to other kof games. Its feels like something you'd see in a tech ad from the time. Like the Ipod. Very clean and Frutiger Aero-esque.
Back in the day it made a lot of sense to me that the game was not called KoF 2004 because it came out in 2005. I think that they ditched the annual naming because they couldn't make a game per year anymore. Although we actually had a game in 2004; the stinky KoF Neowave.
It's true. SNK couldn't keep up with yearly deadlines, but they didn't abandon the use of dates. Maximum impact 2 was published as kof 2006 outside Japan. Mass confusion as maximum impact is a side series.....that leads into kof 11....
Ex Kyo was so cool in this game, he had that special move where he put one of his hand in his pocket while exploding his opponent airbone...so sick. The regular kyo had ground projectile and rekkas as well. best mix of 94 classic kyo and 96/97 kyo.
Xi is my personal favorite kof game,the tag mechanic mechanic made it one of the deepest kof games to play in my opinion and the roster is top tier too, def the most underrated in the series
Fun fact is that this was the first non-NeoGeo KOF mainline game and also the first that doesn't include a year on its title. By this point SNK basically gave up on the yearly name and just use Roman numeral for the sequels instead. It's also the final KOF to used the dated NeoGeo sprites before going HD with the newer hand drawn sprites with KOFXII and KOFXIII.
KOF XI, the only official game where you can see Duck King fighting Jyazu (Kizuna Encounter) KOF 2003 roster was good KOF XI roster is AMAZING!! I hate that KOF XIII went back to characters/teams from the Orochi Saga Seriously, 80% of that roster is Orochi Saga! You can say all about the SNK PLAYMORE era but the roster of many of their fighting games were great! SVC Chaos, Neo Geo Battle Coliseum, KOF XI Props to SNKP for using characters from forgotten/obscure franchises that they owned, like World Heroes I still hope that we get a World Heroes (Hanzo, Ryoko, Jeanne) and Aggressors Team (Fuuma, Kisarah, Joe) in KOF
KOF11 has always been one of my personal fav KOF games. I'm a big fan of the Ash Saga and a lot of the characters it introduced like it's main protagonists Elizabeth and Ash, Oswald is super cool, Duo Lon and Shen Woo are good as well. With Elizabeth and Ash especially, I appreciated SNK being willing to have more gender nonconforming main characters for a fighting game, with how Ash presents more femme and Elizabeth presents more masc. I just really vibed with the new characters from the Ash Saga. And speaking of the characters, I also think XI in particular has one of the most unique KOF roster in terms of team composition and I wish more of the entries would be as experimental with their teams as this one was. This is only entry in which Whip is with Ralf and Clark but without Leona, where we get Shingo taking Chizuru's spot with the other Sacred Treasures Kyo and Iori, where King, Ryo and Yuri are the Art of Fighting team, Terry, Kim and Duck King are the Fatal Fury team, that we have a Garou team with B Jenet, Gato and Tizoc. It's also the first time where Mary teams up with the Secret Agents like Vanessa and Ramon, and also where Kula teams up with K' and Maxima which has become a very iconic team since. And what's great is that some of these were informed by the story, like the absence of Leona being because she had lost control of her Orochi blood curse in the previous game so she was off with Heidern learning how to control it, so Whip leaves her brother K' to rejoin with the Ikari Warriors, which is then why K' and Maxima end up bringing Kula as their third person. Or Chizuru being injured in the last game and her powers being taken by Ash who stole her Yata Mirror, so she send Shingo to make sure Kyo and Iori don't kill eachother on their hunt for Ash. Like it's all very well considered and I wish more fighting game developers cared about their story this much. The story in this game is great too with it being the middle of the Ash Saga and I love how it's presented, because there are 6 teams that all contribute the main plot and if you watch their endings in order then they all tell a continuous story, starting with Ash's team, then Sacred Treasures, Elizabeth's team, Secret Agents, K' Team and finally Ikari Warriors. Some of the other teams are also connected in their endings as well, like the AOF and anti AOF teams, Fatal Fury and Garou, with the only team that is entirely separate being the Psycho Soldiers. But I also really love the Ash Saga for actually adding tagging to KOF, which while I do like the traditional rounds based fight through each character KOF, I also very much appreciate the faster pace that tagging brings as well as all of the combo potential like you mentioned, and this game takes this mechanic that was introduced in 2003 and just makes it a lot more smoother and allows for more combo freedom. So yeah KOFXI is a super cool game, very much one of my faves and I appreciate the video on it.
we really need native ports of the home versions of XI and 2000 (the current 2000 home port is one of those ps2 emulated games that don't really work well on ps5) XI's home port is fantastic, and it's also one of the best kof games ever made. Characters had really deep move lists, and team comp strats were amazing.
This game was such a beatiful send off to the original 2D era sprites of the game (I'm aware 2002UM came after but that's a remake so not counting it lol). I know KOF is back to traditional 3v3 but this game felt like not only an upgrade to 2003 but also a celebration of so many things SNK, not just KOF.
Seriously? Zero mention of new characters like Oswald, or even any mention of Shion who's perhaps the most interestingly desgined character in series, and one of the few that use weapons and stance changes. Instead, lets talk Magaki and Momoko! Smh lol! KoF XI has quite a dedicated and competitive scene in Korea. They seem to love the most obscure and totally busted KoF entires out there like this and KOF 01 😂 I remember driving quite a few cities down just to play the game as word spread fast that a Tilt arcade in my state got it early. It was a big deal because it was the first KoF title to utilize Sammys ASW hardware more creatively (KoF Neowave generic brand 2002 dont count as that was obviously a concept game for the hardware lol!) as well as expanding on KoF 03 tag mechanic with less technical restraints as a result of the ageing AES. I was rather impressed by the game's new hand drawn art portaits, catchy OST and overall circular design UI motif. I eventually imported the JPN PS2 reelase back then, tho it did eventually get an official US release (and with even better package art for once!) about a year and a half later. Im willing to bet it sold quite well outside of Japan since it released out here as a budget priced title on release. You could find a copy at just about anywhere even including outlet and discount stores at one point like KayBee and Biglots for about $20 or less.
Best KOF for me! The gameplay and roster are great and very underrated! I like the fact the dont do the easy way and remove some popular chars like Mai, even if the ps2 add her is only a extra, btw i hope snk release this game and Neo Geo Battle Coliseum which is even better in terms of Roster😊
Same thing happened with KOF 2002, where they removed the striker system of the NESTS Saga games, to bring back the classic 3vs3 format At least the tag system returned in SNK Heroines Hope they make a sequel of that game, the mechanics are weird (at first) but great! It only needed more characters in the roster.
Even if I am not a fan of the story of the Ash Saga (and Ash himself), I have to admit, I really like the tag system KOF XI polished what KOF 2003 did Such a shame that KOF XII and XIII removed the tag system It reminds me of the NESTS Saga games with the striker system KOF 2001 polished that mechanic but sadly KOF 2002 went back to the classic 3vs3 format What is interesting is that SNK Heroines brought back the tag system and it works well 👍 I hope we get a sequel of SNKH The mechanics of that game are great! Probably the last time SNK went so creative
The only negative I have with KOF XI are the stages, those look so boring 🫤 2:39 Well, they succeeded Everyone hates Magaki! Hope he never returns 😤 They only good thing about that thing is his theme Hope Momoko returns in a new game Her special intro against gals like Vanessa, Jenet, Elisabeth is funny 😆 I would like to see her reaction after seeing gals like Angel and Shermie 😁
I still love king of fighters 11 because this gave us so much content, so many things you could do in it and a weird roster of characters that somehow actually work. Plus this game introduced me to Hotaru from mark of the Wolves a little bit more interestingly and she became one of my favorite female characters to use, both in part because I love her fighting style and also because I love her super. Really about the only things that suck about this game is some of the challenges could have been a little bit easier because there were times where a lot of them have ridiculous conditions to complete, the judgement ring was an odd way to determine a winner even if you were doing good and Magaki.......FUCK MAGAKI! Outside of that this game is still a very fun time and I would think was the last time we had extra content in a fighting game before everything went to more online focus and barely any bonus content. Well that and KOF13 and at least they both HAD Mai on release, even if getting Mai in 11 was bonkers lol.
This game is one of the best KOFs. I wouldn't mind if they brought Shion back, he had a far more interesting design and fighting style than Magaki Also storywise this game made hate Chizuru, and made me realize the problem wasn't Ash but how much of an idiot she is. Why did this woman sent Kyo and Shingo with Yagami knowing the influence of Orochi was in the air thanks to her stupidity from the previous game? Where she herself broke the seal for Botan's group Basically Kyo and Shingo would had died in the hands of Orochi Iori if Ash wasn't a good guy thanks to Chizuru's idea and she probably wouldn't had cared about their deaths anyway. Even Heidern is more smarter than Chizuru in canon considerating Leona isn't in this game because of the influence of Orochi being in the air as we saw in the ending of the Ikari team in 2003 Yeah this and KOF 2003 really made me dislike Chizuru
TBH this and 03 were actually my least favorite game in the franchise except the roster. I wish the characters would come back, but the tag in mechanic just didn't fit well with the franchise since there were already too many of them and it's not as good as those other ones. I want Momoko to come back really bad
It can be lowered or turned off altogether in the Console port. Unfortunately it does very little with the games dated sprites look very jarring in front of the games softer interalced prerendered backgrounds.
@@CDages oh I totally didn't remember that got added to the console port, that's good to hear. dated sprites and all it looks better than xiv/xv to me personally. I agree the backgrounds really clash though.
The PS2 version of KoFXI has SO MUCH ADDED CONTENT that I hope whenever it's ported, they keep that content.
A handful of Neo Geo Battle Coliseum characters 2 original sprites of Buriki One characters Silber and Gai Tendo not to mention Sho Hayate and Jyazu from Kizuna Encounter all this and more without having to spend extra and only needed to play the game
Absolutely, The PS2 version was an excellent port and the progressive scan kept the sprites clean, unfortunatelt the Atomiswave hardware couldn't pull this off which was a real shame. Same thing happened to KOF NEOWAVE and NGBC, the PS2 ports are far superior to the Atomiswave carts. However this wasn't the case for the Rumble Fish games which looked rough on PS2 and the zoom action was nerfed.
cmon SNK, port this one to modern consoles (or atleast Steam) please!!
Unfortunately, SNK has lost the source code to the game which makes it difficult to port to Steam.
@@ramijackson3978 source?
@@ramijackson3978 Where is your source on this? I keep seeing people everyone parroting this statement, and yet no one can direct me to when SNK said this
@@Keezawea He doesn't have one, no one ever does
Magaki stole my tax return also thanks for having me on Khan, always a pleasure bro!
This was the one KOF that convinced me that changing the format from elimination 3V3 into Tag/Elimination 3V3 KOF was the way to go. What a huge leap from how bare (and fairly borked) 2003 was. XI is like, up there with all my favorite KOF games in both gameplay/roster AND OST (not so much the AST this time, the AST instruments sound a little off in some songs).
This game is so underrated and sooo good
i miss when fighting games were full of great content like this
My favorite KOF game. One of the best fighting games ever made.
I absolutely love this one, especially the roster with those ng battle coliseum characters
The best KOF, period
K' throw in this game is so badass. Bring it back. And that f+LK command normal
That command normal was given to Nameless (KOF 2002UM)
K' got back that move in KOF XV
What’s under-appreciated is that 2003 & XI is that if the players want to, they can also play matches in the classic “Team” format instead of the “Arcade” Tag format.
The bold roster for those two games also aged better over time as SNK was daring enough to drop certain mainstays (Andy & Robert) from the roster in order to make room for newer faces and more interesting teams…
…but the reception to some of the omissions (Mai & Leona) prove _why_ they shouldn’t have been left out in the first place.
03 is the worst one
Another cool factor of the ps2 port is that it lets you play as classic 3v3 team with no Tag systems, so people who only prefer classic KOF can enjoy it too
One of the best fighting games of all time! K', EX Kyo, and Shingo is my go to team.
Itd be cool if snk did a playmore collection with kof xi,neo wave,samsho 6,metal slug 6,neogeo battle coliseum,kof mira,samsho sen, and kof sky stage
I really wish this game would get the Rollback treatment.
Those prerendered backgrounds are what GODS dream of.
Literally one of the best KOF games ever! I love this game. The cast is awesome, the sprites and music are beautiful, every character is fun. The game is a broken mess but it's a beauty in all of the ways MVC2 is.
I agree, I hope snk can experiment with the tag system of 11 again maybe even at ot with some max mode spice. Even though it would make the game a bit more complex and broken
But I think it could be interesting if implemented right.
This, fame really understood its vibe. From the intro, music and style.
The only negative about KOF XI, are the stages.
Those are boring
@@meganinten0078 I agree. Outside of Cambodia (the jungle stage with the giant faces) and the snow stage, I'm not a huge fan of the XI stages.
IIRC the top tiers or tournament frequent characters for this game were (list is in random order)
Gato
Kula
Oswald
Maxima
K'
Ryo
Ralf
XI deserves a UM version super hard.
Imagine adding teams from NGBC and returning characters from '03! And HOW MANY BOSSES this game could have!! :D
Random, but KOF XI has some really bizzare alt colors too (also, the game UI using comic sans is funny xD)
I think there was a color edit it's been years you can come up with some wild stuff
@@aceattorneygeneral3922 that's true (based SNK), but I was talking about the base game colors xD
I just think it's funny how there's stuff like smurf ash, goblin shingo, demon kyo, whatever tf they were doing with mary etc.
Fun fact: XI has the most alts per character out any entry
One of my favorites games of the franchise, the console version is full of content.
Easily one of my top 3 favourite KOFs alongside Kof XIII and 2000, I love almost everything about this game, the soundtrack and the character designs in Oswald, Shion and Elizabeth to the stages, the story here is also good showing some really important plot points for the future and in terms of gameplay it was a blast to do those tag combos once you learned how team synergy worked my team was Kyo/Ash/Benimaru. I remember spending hours in the challenge mode and playing along with my sibling and friends to unlock everything and have such a fun time
The final boss in Magaki was really a nightmare to fight against easily one of the hardest bosses in Kof history. Also the arcade mode in terms of balance was something the players were used to and having a new balance mode in arrange imo made things complicated for players, the game should have been launched with the arranged balance and stages only if SNK wanted to improve the game's balance.
Overall, this game represents the end of an era for 2d fighting games (one of the best ever made) and Kof in general as this would be the last mainline Kof game to use traditional 2d sprites which were already being reused since 1996. The game is similar to NGBC except it should have had a digital release for Xbox 360 like that game which would have resulted in increased sales.
They refined the Tag system just to get rid of it in the next installment, what a shame, to this day it's by far my favorite KOF.
Massively underrated KOF game. My favorite of the whole franchise, though I thought everyone else had forgotten it.
This was my jam good times playing this with the homies I remember buying it online cuz it was hard to find in stores
I remember the art of KOFXI being from the same artist from Advance Wars Days of Ruin
It's sexy
Haven't played this one but the presentation is jarring compared to other kof games. Its feels like something you'd see in a tech ad from the time. Like the Ipod. Very clean and Frutiger Aero-esque.
Back in the day it made a lot of sense to me that the game was not called KoF 2004 because it came out in 2005. I think that they ditched the annual naming because they couldn't make a game per year anymore. Although we actually had a game in 2004; the stinky KoF Neowave.
It's true. SNK couldn't keep up with yearly deadlines, but they didn't abandon the use of dates. Maximum impact 2 was published as kof 2006 outside Japan.
Mass confusion as maximum impact is a side series.....that leads into kof 11....
Ex Kyo was so cool in this game, he had that special move where he put one of his hand in his pocket while exploding his opponent airbone...so sick.
The regular kyo had ground projectile and rekkas as well. best mix of 94 classic kyo and 96/97 kyo.
This game was my childhood fighting game along with tekken 1-5 (and tag) and it's my favorite kof game along with 13
Xi is my personal favorite kof game,the tag mechanic mechanic made it one of the deepest kof games to play in my opinion and the roster is top tier too, def the most underrated in the series
this one is extremely fun
Fun fact is that this was the first non-NeoGeo KOF mainline game and also the first that doesn't include a year on its title. By this point SNK basically gave up on the yearly name and just use Roman numeral for the sequels instead. It's also the final KOF to used the dated NeoGeo sprites before going HD with the newer hand drawn sprites with KOFXII and KOFXIII.
KOF XI, the only official game where you can see Duck King fighting Jyazu (Kizuna Encounter)
KOF 2003 roster was good
KOF XI roster is AMAZING!!
I hate that KOF XIII went back to characters/teams from the Orochi Saga
Seriously, 80% of that roster is Orochi Saga!
You can say all about the SNK PLAYMORE era but the roster of many of their fighting games were great!
SVC Chaos, Neo Geo Battle Coliseum, KOF XI
Props to SNKP for using characters from forgotten/obscure franchises that they owned, like World Heroes
I still hope that we get a World Heroes (Hanzo, Ryoko, Jeanne) and Aggressors Team (Fuuma, Kisarah, Joe) in KOF
11 is really the KOF that brought the definition of an all star game
KOF11 has always been one of my personal fav KOF games. I'm a big fan of the Ash Saga and a lot of the characters it introduced like it's main protagonists Elizabeth and Ash, Oswald is super cool, Duo Lon and Shen Woo are good as well. With Elizabeth and Ash especially, I appreciated SNK being willing to have more gender nonconforming main characters for a fighting game, with how Ash presents more femme and Elizabeth presents more masc. I just really vibed with the new characters from the Ash Saga.
And speaking of the characters, I also think XI in particular has one of the most unique KOF roster in terms of team composition and I wish more of the entries would be as experimental with their teams as this one was. This is only entry in which Whip is with Ralf and Clark but without Leona, where we get Shingo taking Chizuru's spot with the other Sacred Treasures Kyo and Iori, where King, Ryo and Yuri are the Art of Fighting team, Terry, Kim and Duck King are the Fatal Fury team, that we have a Garou team with B Jenet, Gato and Tizoc. It's also the first time where Mary teams up with the Secret Agents like Vanessa and Ramon, and also where Kula teams up with K' and Maxima which has become a very iconic team since. And what's great is that some of these were informed by the story, like the absence of Leona being because she had lost control of her Orochi blood curse in the previous game so she was off with Heidern learning how to control it, so Whip leaves her brother K' to rejoin with the Ikari Warriors, which is then why K' and Maxima end up bringing Kula as their third person. Or Chizuru being injured in the last game and her powers being taken by Ash who stole her Yata Mirror, so she send Shingo to make sure Kyo and Iori don't kill eachother on their hunt for Ash.
Like it's all very well considered and I wish more fighting game developers cared about their story this much. The story in this game is great too with it being the middle of the Ash Saga and I love how it's presented, because there are 6 teams that all contribute the main plot and if you watch their endings in order then they all tell a continuous story, starting with Ash's team, then Sacred Treasures, Elizabeth's team, Secret Agents, K' Team and finally Ikari Warriors. Some of the other teams are also connected in their endings as well, like the AOF and anti AOF teams, Fatal Fury and Garou, with the only team that is entirely separate being the Psycho Soldiers.
But I also really love the Ash Saga for actually adding tagging to KOF, which while I do like the traditional rounds based fight through each character KOF, I also very much appreciate the faster pace that tagging brings as well as all of the combo potential like you mentioned, and this game takes this mechanic that was introduced in 2003 and just makes it a lot more smoother and allows for more combo freedom. So yeah KOFXI is a super cool game, very much one of my faves and I appreciate the video on it.
we really need native ports of the home versions of XI and 2000 (the current 2000 home port is one of those ps2 emulated games that don't really work well on ps5)
XI's home port is fantastic, and it's also one of the best kof games ever made. Characters had really deep move lists, and team comp strats were amazing.
This game was such a beatiful send off to the original 2D era sprites of the game (I'm aware 2002UM came after but that's a remake so not counting it lol). I know KOF is back to traditional 3v3 but this game felt like not only an upgrade to 2003 but also a celebration of so many things SNK, not just KOF.
Seriously? Zero mention of new characters like Oswald, or even any mention of Shion who's perhaps the most interestingly desgined character in series, and one of the few that use weapons and stance changes. Instead, lets talk Magaki and Momoko! Smh lol!
KoF XI has quite a dedicated and competitive scene in Korea. They seem to love the most obscure and totally busted KoF entires out there like this and KOF 01 😂
I remember driving quite a few cities down just to play the game as word spread fast that a Tilt arcade in my state got it early. It was a big deal because it was the first KoF title to utilize Sammys ASW hardware more creatively (KoF Neowave generic brand 2002 dont count as that was obviously a concept game for the hardware lol!) as well as expanding on KoF 03 tag mechanic with less technical restraints as a result of the ageing AES.
I was rather impressed by the game's new hand drawn art portaits, catchy OST and overall circular design UI motif. I eventually imported the JPN PS2 reelase back then, tho it did eventually get an official US release (and with even better package art for once!) about a year and a half later. Im willing to bet it sold quite well outside of Japan since it released out here as a budget priced title on release. You could find a copy at just about anywhere even including outlet and discount stores at one point like KayBee and Biglots for about $20 or less.
Got a friend to try XI on Fightcade. They've been hooked on XI since.
Best KOF for me! The gameplay and roster are great and very underrated! I like the fact the dont do the easy way and remove some popular chars like Mai, even if the ps2 add her is only a extra, btw i hope snk release this game and Neo Geo Battle Coliseum which is even better in terms of Roster😊
I would love for future KOF to revisit the 3v3 tag team system again instead of the classic 1v1 3 members fights, it's time for a new change of pace.
Yeah, XI was a pretty fun game but i also wonder why SNK didnt keep the tag system for KOF XII or XIII.
Prob console gpu and the cost of the sprites, they didnt have enough resources to make a tag mode
Same thing happened with KOF 2002, where they removed the striker system of the NESTS Saga games, to bring back the classic 3vs3 format
At least the tag system returned in SNK Heroines
Hope they make a sequel of that game, the mechanics are weird (at first) but great!
It only needed more characters in the roster.
I love the ps2 version because I can play Shion and he's so freaking cool
Even if I am not a fan of the story of the Ash Saga (and Ash himself), I have to admit, I really like the tag system
KOF XI polished what KOF 2003 did
Such a shame that KOF XII and XIII removed the tag system
It reminds me of the NESTS Saga games with the striker system
KOF 2001 polished that mechanic but sadly KOF 2002 went back to the classic 3vs3 format
What is interesting is that SNK Heroines brought back the tag system and it works well 👍
I hope we get a sequel of SNKH
The mechanics of that game are great!
Probably the last time SNK went so creative
The channel Thorgi's Arcade made a video abou KOF 11-13, as well as talked about some stuff that went on in the beckground
BEST KOF WOOOOO
The only negative I have with KOF XI are the stages, those look so boring 🫤
2:39 Well, they succeeded
Everyone hates Magaki!
Hope he never returns 😤
They only good thing about that thing is his theme
Hope Momoko returns in a new game
Her special intro against gals like Vanessa, Jenet, Elisabeth is funny 😆
I would like to see her reaction after seeing gals like Angel and Shermie 😁
Got this on my modded ps4.😮😮😮😮
I still love king of fighters 11 because this gave us so much content, so many things you could do in it and a weird roster of characters that somehow actually work. Plus this game introduced me to Hotaru from mark of the Wolves a little bit more interestingly and she became one of my favorite female characters to use, both in part because I love her fighting style and also because I love her super. Really about the only things that suck about this game is some of the challenges could have been a little bit easier because there were times where a lot of them have ridiculous conditions to complete, the judgement ring was an odd way to determine a winner even if you were doing good and Magaki.......FUCK MAGAKI! Outside of that this game is still a very fun time and I would think was the last time we had extra content in a fighting game before everything went to more online focus and barely any bonus content. Well that and KOF13 and at least they both HAD Mai on release, even if getting Mai in 11 was bonkers lol.
I've got XIII ✊🏻
You should review KOF 2003, this one seems to get ignored alot.
A game in desperate need of a rerelease
Why is this the only KOF mainline game “besides XII” is stuck on one old console?
Unfortunately snk lost the source code for kof 11, which makes it hard to port it to modern consoles and steam.
KoFXI mentioned of course i had to click
This game is one of the best KOFs. I wouldn't mind if they brought Shion back, he had a far more interesting design and fighting style than Magaki
Also storywise this game made hate Chizuru, and made me realize the problem wasn't Ash but how much of an idiot she is. Why did this woman sent Kyo and Shingo with Yagami knowing the influence of Orochi was in the air thanks to her stupidity from the previous game? Where she herself broke the seal for Botan's group
Basically Kyo and Shingo would had died in the hands of Orochi Iori if Ash wasn't a good guy thanks to Chizuru's idea and she probably wouldn't had cared about their deaths anyway. Even Heidern is more smarter than Chizuru in canon considerating Leona isn't in this game because of the influence of Orochi being in the air as we saw in the ending of the Ikari team in 2003
Yeah this and KOF 2003 really made me dislike Chizuru
TBH this and 03 were actually my least favorite game in the franchise except the roster. I wish the characters would come back, but the tag in mechanic just didn't fit well with the franchise since there were already too many of them and it's not as good as those other ones. I want Momoko to come back really bad
My favourite game I can’t play
to me every aesthetic issue with the game would be instantly solved if you could just turn off that hideous sprite filter
It can be lowered or turned off altogether in the Console port. Unfortunately it does very little with the games dated sprites look very jarring in front of the games softer interalced prerendered backgrounds.
@@CDages oh I totally didn't remember that got added to the console port, that's good to hear.
dated sprites and all it looks better than xiv/xv to me personally. I agree the backgrounds really clash though.
Whenever I see people making videos that are like "revisiting this well known piece of shit from the past" my first reaction always is "why the fuck?"
Ugly ass game...XIII is the only KOF that doesn't look ultra jank.
wrong as fuck
It's certainly more fun than XIII, at least characters in this game have complete movelists.
@@ramijackson3978Yeah, kids nowadays born with the luxury of modern graphic games. They don't appreciate things as we do.