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The PS2 port of KoF NW arrived today from Play Asia and I just came back from a two hours test drive.
The character design on the insert made my stomach turn upside down, but that's nothing compared to what I felt when I saw the intro... OH. MY. GOD.
WTF were they thinking? Except for some of the girls, the character artwork is BUTT UGLY... took me 10 mins. before I was able to look at those grinning, round-nosed freaks without getting sick. You think KoF2k1 had bad chara artwork? Man, those victims of a crazy designer's bad acid flash you see in 2k1 look like Rembrandt portraits compared to the NW artwork.
I was almost glad they didn't change the actual sprites except for a few new outfits (Choi?).
Gameplay-wise there really isn't anything new in it, at least I haven't found anything worth mentioning, seems to be 2k2 + some extras like the mode selection, the heat system, etc. Got some bad slowdowns, I wonder if they are in the AW original as well.
Ah well... I was looking forward to this game and I will definitely play it some more to try a few things I've read about in faqs, but overall I'm disappointed so far... extremly fugly artwork, generic music and a questionable selection of charas... plus a mode select that seems to de-balance the whole thing...
In short, we're not amused so far.
The character design on the insert made my stomach turn upside down, but that's nothing compared to what I felt when I saw the intro... OH. MY. GOD.
WTF were they thinking? Except for some of the girls, the character artwork is BUTT UGLY... took me 10 mins. before I was able to look at those grinning, round-nosed freaks without getting sick. You think KoF2k1 had bad chara artwork? Man, those victims of a crazy designer's bad acid flash you see in 2k1 look like Rembrandt portraits compared to the NW artwork.
I was almost glad they didn't change the actual sprites except for a few new outfits (Choi?).
Gameplay-wise there really isn't anything new in it, at least I haven't found anything worth mentioning, seems to be 2k2 + some extras like the mode selection, the heat system, etc. Got some bad slowdowns, I wonder if they are in the AW original as well.
Ah well... I was looking forward to this game and I will definitely play it some more to try a few things I've read about in faqs, but overall I'm disappointed so far... extremly fugly artwork, generic music and a questionable selection of charas... plus a mode select that seems to de-balance the whole thing...
In short, we're not amused so far.