NPI NEW Screens

Giga Power · Feb 12, 2003

It's been awhile since I've "brought the news" so here goes. Fresh Power Instinct for all!

<img src="http://www.insertcredit.com/news/022003/npiimg4.jpg" alt=" - " />
<img src="http://www.insertcredit.com/news/022003/npiimg2.jpg" alt=" - " />
<img src="http://www.insertcredit.com/news/022003/npiimg3.jpg" alt=" - " />
<img src="http://www.insertcredit.com/news/022003/npiimg1.jpg" alt=" - " />

buttrock buttrock buttrock buttrock

NeoLord · Feb 12, 2003

Those look nice! The background in the second picture looks busy -- let's hope it animates as good as it looks!

Giga Power · Feb 12, 2003

Heres some more..

<img src="http://www.insertcredit.com/news/022003/npi1.jpg" alt=" - " />
<img src="http://www.insertcredit.com/news/022003/npi2.jpg" alt=" - " />
<img src="http://www.insertcredit.com/news/022003/npi3.jpg" alt=" - " />

[ February 12, 2003, 04:45 PM: Message edited by: Giga Power ]

Solidus Snake · Feb 12, 2003

whoa!! nice...

SNKJorge · Feb 12, 2003

very nice, where did you get those from?

ray_7 · Feb 12, 2003

Looking better and better, hope it's animation is far beyond that of RotD.

AOJ · Feb 12, 2003

Yeeeah! Good looking!
I like the Card Captor Sakura clone with Bao look (Clara?). Strange chara design!

We want to see more drool_2

VX · Feb 12, 2003

Man, this is looking better and better. I'm dying to see this game in action!

the_colonel · Feb 12, 2003

"xtoo_short20x" he got them probebly from a german site called hardedge.

J. Max · Feb 12, 2003

Yay!! The old lady with the flying dentures is back! WooHoo!

toy_brain · Feb 12, 2003

Heh - looks like Giga Power also checks out <a href="http://www.insertcredit.com" target="_blank">www.insertcredit.com</a> on a regular basis.

The pics have been up a few days now. I think Elbarto was the one who scanned the 3 magazine pages.

DanAdamKOF · Feb 12, 2003

Do I see Elias from ROTD in the bottom-right corner of the first screen???

Hot Chocolate · Feb 12, 2003

<img src="http://www.insertcredit.com/news/022003/npiimg2.jpg" alt=" - " />

Man i so can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
buttrock buttrock buttrock buttrock

Dash no Chris · Feb 12, 2003

toy_brain:
The pics have been up a few days now. I think Elbarto was the one who scanned the 3 magazine pages.

Indeed he was. He originally linked to them in this thread (just in case some of those posting here wish to read the earlier discussion):
<a href="http://www.neo-geo.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=10;t=004639" target="_blank">LINK</a>
And for completeness sake, here's the thread in which Clear Paper linked to the German site, HardEdge:
<a href="http://www.neo-geo.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=10;t=004643;p=2" target="_blank">LINK</a>

--Chris

Poison Sama · Feb 12, 2003

Kurara, tsuyo~i!

The Auction Sniper · Feb 12, 2003

Yay!!!
It looks very good for a Neo Geo game.

I thought it was a Naomi game from those screenshots! But Playmore has proved yet again that there's still alot they can squeeze out of a decade old arcade platform...

Dash no Chris · Feb 12, 2003

DanAdamKOF:
Do I see Elias from ROTD in the bottom-right corner of the first screen???

I think this is Kunohe Montaro, one of the 4 new characters. He's the middle character in the top row of this photocopied movelist from the Oosaka location test:
<a href="http://kfxnews.hp.infoseek.co.jp/photo/matrimelee_w.jpg" target="_blank">LINK</a>

AOJ:
Yeeeah! Good looking!
I like the Card Captor Sakura clone with Bao look (Clara?). Strange chara design!

Hananokouji Kurara.

J.Max:
Yay!! The old lady with the flying dentures is back! WooHoo!

Both of 'em, even! This time around, they seem to be giving Oume and Otane some differences in their movesets (individualizing them slightly, a la Ryu & Ken, Ralf & Clark, Hanzo & Fuuma, etc.). According to the above-linked location test movelist, Otane's "Gansaishi" (the flying dentures) is still a 'charge-move' (Hold B,F + Punch) while Oume's "Gansaishi" is now a standard projectile 1/4-circle (QCF + P). Otane's "Ikakugan" (the ki-energy face) is also still a 'charge-move' (changed to Hold B,F + Kick; in previous games it was Hold D,U + P) while Oume's "Ikakugan" is now a standard anti-air uppercut motion (F,D,DF + P). I'm very curious to see how these 2 characters' movesets are further differentiated in the final version of the game -- I'm especially eager to see the differences in their younger forms' movesets!

--Chris

[ February 12, 2003, 08:03 PM: Message edited by: Dash no Chris ]

ThePunisher · Feb 12, 2003

I love the way these characters are drawn. The style is awesome. And like everyone else has been saying lets hope for the best with the animation.

wink

DanAdamKOF · Feb 12, 2003

Dash no Chris:

DanAdamKOF:
Do I see Elias from ROTD in the bottom-right corner of the first screen???

Click to expand...

I think this is Kunohe Montaro, one of the 4 new characters. He's the middle character in the top row of this photocopied movelist from the Oosaka location test:
<a href="http://kfxnews.hp.infoseek.co.jp/photo/matrimelee_w.jpg" target="_blank">LINK</a>

Hmm, doesn't look like that Kunohe guy to me. Though it's blurry, I think the hair is different, and the clothing does not look the same (compared to the movelist pic).

Dash no Chris · Feb 12, 2003

DanAdamKOF:
Hmm, doesn't look like that Kunohe guy to me. Though it's blurry, I think the hair is different, and the clothing does not look the same (compared to the movelist pic).

Well, I was hoping to edit my previous message before you had the chance to read it -- here's what I was going to add:

Looks like you're right, DAK! That is indeed Elias!

I was thinking that the face in the upper right corner (next to the health meter) didn't really look much like Murata Range's official mugshot of Montaro (not to mention the costume coloration on the sprite itself). So, I did a little digging around the Japanese end of the net and here's what I found:

Characters from Rage of the Dragons appeared as opponents in the location test version of Matrimelee! According to the Feb. 9 Matrimelee article on <a href="http://www.alpha-net.ne.jp/users2/hamapika/acnews/acnews7.htm" target="_blank">this newspage</a> of the website, Hamapikaya: "as you enter the 3rd and 5th stages, there are doors that look like waiting room entrances; Rage of the Dragons characters enter through these to fight you; Jimmy and Elias are confirmed." According to the Feb. 10 newsblurb on <a href="http://dengeki.gaiax.com/www/dengeki/n/o/neogeo/main.html" target="_blank">this page</a>, entitled "NEO-GEO + alpha News," Lynn also appears (the blurb's author comments that he would like Alice to show up, too). Of course, whether or not the RotD characters remain a part of the final version of the game remains to be seen. For fans of the earlier installments in the GI/PI series, the Hamapikaya article states that "as usual, during the Victory Demo screen the defeated character's face is covered in graffiti."

--Chris

Parallax · Feb 12, 2003

I never played any of the ooriginal Power Instinct games :confused:

What system were they for?

toy_brain · Feb 12, 2003

This game looks like its going to shape up to be at least equally as impressive as ROTD (no bad thing at all), which begs the question....

Just what DID Evoga do in the evelopment of ROTD?

And does anyone else think we are more likely to see ROTD vs NPI before SNK vs Capcom? wink
Well, Noise factory certainly seem to be the most active Neo developer at the moment.

RabbitTroop · Feb 12, 2003

Wait, why is the priest from ROTD in it... Top picture, guy on the right is from ROTD... WTF!

edit, never mind, should have read this whole thread... oh well,

-Nick

[ February 12, 2003, 09:34 PM: Message edited by: nruva ]

Dash no Chris · Feb 12, 2003

Parallax:
I never played any of the original Power Instinct games
What system were they for?

If memory serves the first 3 games in the series were JAMMA boards: Gouketsuji Ichizoku (aka Power Instinct), Gouketsuji Ichizoku 2 (aka Power Instinct 2), and Gouketsuji Gaiden Saikyou Densetsu (aka Power Instinct Legends). GROOVE ON FIGHT (which sometimes bore a small Gouketsuji Ichizoku 3 logo next to its title) was released on Sega's ST-V arcade motherboard system.

GI/PI saw home releases on both the Super Famicom (SNES) and Megadrive (Sega Genesis) consoles, PlayStation got Gouketsuji Ichizoku 2 ~Chotto dake Saikyou Densetsu~ (sort of a hybridization of GI2/PI2 and GGSD/PIL), and GROOVE ON FIGHT appeared on Sega Saturn.

--Chris

DanAdamKOF · Feb 12, 2003

Dash no Chris:

DanAdamKOF:
Hmm, doesn't look like that Kunohe guy to me. Though it's blurry, I think the hair is different, and the clothing does not look the same (compared to the movelist pic).

Click to expand...

Well, I was hoping to edit my previous message before you had the chance to read it -- here's what I was going to add:

Looks like you're right, DAK! That is indeed Elias!

I was thinking that the face in the upper right corner (next to the health meter) didn't really look much like Murata Range's official mugshot of Montaro (not to mention the costume coloration on the sprite itself). So, I did a little digging around the Japanese end of the net and here's what I found:

Characters from Rage of the Dragons appeared as opponents in the location test version of Matrimelee! According to the Feb. 9 Matrimelee article on <a href="http://www.alpha-net.ne.jp/users2/hamapika/acnews/acnews7.htm" target="_blank">this newspage</a> of the website, Hamapikaya: "as you enter the 3rd and 5th stages, there are doors that look like waiting room entrances; Rage of the Dragons characters enter through these to fight you; Jimmy and Elias are confirmed." According to the Feb. 10 newsblurb on <a href="http://dengeki.gaiax.com/www/dengeki/n/o/neogeo/main.html" target="_blank">this page</a>, entitled "NEO-GEO + alpha News," Lynn also appears (the blurb's author comments that he would like Alice to show up, too). Of course, whether or not the RotD characters remain a part of the final version of the game remains to be seen. For fans of the earlier installments in the GI/PI series, the Hamapikaya article states that "as usual, during the Victory Demo screen the defeated character's face is covered in graffiti."

--Chris

Whew, I'm not crazy! I just kept looking at pics of Elias and at that picture and they looked the same, but I looked at Kunohe and I'm all "What?! They don't look alike at all!"

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