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smurphy570

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Hi everyone, can you guys help me, since i recently got kof98 and kof99 i have been using kensou in my teams...But unlike Terry Bogard or Ryo, I dont know a damn thing about this guy! This really pisses me off! When did he first start the kof tournment, was it 96? I have it on cd but i dont feel like hooking it up....and why is he in the tournment? Does anybody have a webpage with some of theses back stories........Later all! Thanks NCS for the games!
 
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Sie Kensou! Yay! Since he's one of my KoF favorites, I'll tell you all I know. He's one of the veterans of the tournament. He's been in the Psycho Soldiers team with Athena and Chin Gentsai since 1994. From what I can gather, he's a high school classmate of Athena, and he has a lil' crush on her. (See Athena Vs. Kensou in KoF '98 for proof) I don't know ANYTHING beyond that. Anybody?

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I believe Kensou was in a pre-Neo SNK arcade game called Psycho Soldier. In this game, both Athena (yay! ^_^ ) and Kensou debuted. From what I can tell from screen shots, it's side-scrolling action game.

I've never played Psycho Solider though, and don't know the story behind it. However, I believe this was the first appearance of Kensou.
 
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Kensou and Athena were in the OLD pre MVS side scroller "Psycho Soldier", If I recall neither of them had a name in that game also, They were just the boy and the girl player.

Their names first showed up in KOF 94', However they could have been named in the ending of psycho soldier, But it was in japanese.

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THEY DID HAVE NAMES!!!!!!
AND KENSOUS NAME WAS SPELLED AS JUST
"KENSU"
AND ATHENAS WAS AS EVER "ATHENA"........
ATHENA ALSO APPEARED IN AN EARLIER OR LATER GAME CALLED ATHENA BUT KENSOU ISNT IN THAT SO BAH........
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thanks all for your help..now about the rest of the characters i know some are from ff, art of fighting, ikari warriors, but mary in 99? where is she from..anybody knows any web pages with kof history...if not somebody should make one! LAter
 
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Originally posted by smurphy570:
thanks all for your help..now about the rest of the characters i know some are from ff, art of fighting, ikari warriors, but mary in 99? where is she from..anybody knows any web pages with kof history...if not somebody should make one! LAter
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If you mean Blue Mary, She's been in every kof game I think. She's from the Fatal Fury games...



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Blue Mary appeared in Fatal Fury 3, and has went on to show up in the Real Bout series, and then in KOF 97, 98, and 99. She'll be on the Fatal Fury Team in 2000, which I absolutely can't wait to play. (Anybody got a watch? How much longer 'til the 21st?!)

Speaking of Kensou earlier, I've noticed he and Robert Garcia have a different opening animation when they fight each other. I don't understand what they're saying, but I get the gist that Robert is calling him out for something, and Kensou feels ashamed or something. I'm pretty sure that the KOF's that takes place in are 97 and 98. If anybody knows and can tell me, I'd sure appreciate it...
 
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I still would love to know if their is one site with just the history of all the characters and the tournment......enjoy your weekend everybody and thanks for the posts.......
 
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Originally posted by Lou Gojira:
Speaking of Kensou earlier, I've noticed he and Robert Garcia have a different opening animation when they fight each other. I don't understand what they're saying, but I get the gist that Robert is calling him out for something, and Kensou feels ashamed or something. I'm pretty sure that the KOF's that takes place in are 97 and 98. If anybody knows and can tell me, I'd sure appreciate it...
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I know!! I can tell you!!

Kensu says to Robert "Hey! How's it going?" and Robert replies with "Pretty good, I guess..." the animations they picked for these quotes don't make sense, I know...

I'm not really sure what the link between Robert and Kensu is, the conclusion I came to is that they share the same regional dialect. Kensu says "Donai de ka" instead of "Donai desu ka" and Robert says "Bochi bochi denna" instead of "Bochi bochi desu ne". So I think that's the only possible link.



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Lou Gojira

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Thanks for the insight Mr. Kunio. I have to agree, the animation certainly doesn't fit the dialogue. But then, I think Kensou's coolest opening animation is when he fights Chin in KOF 98.

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Originally posted by Mister Kunio:
I know!! I can tell you!!

Kensu says to Robert "Hey! How's it going?" and Robert replies with "Pretty good, I guess..." the animations they picked for these quotes don't make sense, I know...
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I heard something totally opposite... of course, I could be wrong, but...

At one time, Athena was "impressed" by Robert and his antics. Of course, with Kensou declaring himself to be Athena's true love (a la Mousse vs. Shampoo), Kensou automatically had detest towards anyone that could "impress" Athena. That could explain why you could barely put the same two together in a team without one "hating" the other.

Anyhow... that's how I heard it. Kensou (I thought) hated Robert because of that reason. Regardless, Kensou could kick his butt anyday.
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Hmm...where'd the Athena and Robert thing surface?

Time for me to answer some more questions. Kensu is constantly eating "Niku Man" (meat buns). Why? Because he likes them, I guess.

I have SEEN and PLAYED Psycho Soldier (thanks to MAME) and yes, the boy player is named Kensu. Hmm...Chin Gentsai must be a new character.

Mousse and Shampoo! Ranma ½ reference! YAAAAY!

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Sie Kensou did first appear in Psycho Soldier and Athena debuted in Athena, which came first.

I think it was last year (I should know this: it's on my web site) SNK made a Japanese-only Playstation game called Athena: Awakening of the Ordinary Life which details her first encounter with Kensou or so, and quite what happens from there I don't know. Chin was original to KoF, just like Bao (incidentially also the Chinese name of the buns Kensou keeps gobbling up prior to his fights).

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While I'm editing this I might also point out that it looks like Yumekobo's logo in the bottom-righthand corner of the CD cover. For those who don't know, they also made The King of Fighters: Kyo.

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Neo Bomber Man

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I read that this is the dialogue being exchanged.

KoF '97
Kensou: "How's it going?"
Robert: "Pretty good, I guess."

KoF '98
Kensou: "How's it going?"
Robert: "Oh I'm okay!"

After/prior to that, I don't know. I should ask a friend of mine. And weren't Kyo, Athena, Kensou, Shingo and Yuki all classmates at some point?
 
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