I was checking out The King Of Fighters Destiny mobile game and notice something called awaken characters. These characters seem to be SNK version of Guilty Gear gold character or Blazblue unlimited.
If you haven’t seen this in the states don’t be surprised as so far it is only in China and Taiwan. But to give you an idea of what I am talking about there will be videos and images below for you to check out.
Now what does that mean as both unlimited and gold characters were not in the latest installments. Meaning a little info might be needed. Both gold characters and unlimited character are overpowered editions or versions of the normal character often having a status effect give them powerful advantage. For example we have Sol being in dragon install with no cool down. Ky projectiles do crazy amount of damage as well or you can have Johnny who has blinding speed and one hit special instant kill.
Now how does KOFD awakening characters compare to these boss versions. Well instead of status update we have moves more less as what would be over the top supers are normal special. For example we have Geese Raging storm, Terry power geyser and Kyo final shodown as normal specie. they have there damage reduced yes but these are still dangerous things. As they can confirm and give you some over the top combos.
Now there are some effect such as Robert getting a double while Benimaru uses a special to make his own. Kyo and Kim leave behind flames that can cause harm but just Dhalsim v trigger there is no big hurt animation when you hit it. The flame effect from normal specials.
We also have people getting properties or moves they normally don’t. Goenitz gets access to lightning to which SNK seems to be leaning towards him getting more to go with his wind power. Kim has had fire moves before but not lightning based ones. Geese gets a teleport which he never had. But as you are noticing these are not to extreme to be considered un heard of for the character. But there are some downsides here.
Since we are talking about a mobile game long combos are expected in a mobile/ beatem up. With that being the case it is hard to see how this would be implemented into an actual title. For instance I don’t think anyone would be happy with how broken Goenitz is let alone Omega Rugal awakening getting tracking fireballs that even Magaki would say too much. On top of the infamous krauser wave from 98 and he gets to fire 3 of them.
But with that in mind we have some cool looks. In awakening Rugal looks insane. Kyo and Goro are looking classical. Chris looks normal while Iori is using a look we all know as it is his striker version from kof 2000.
Now some are just normal looks to me, Ryo and Benimaru come to mind with Benimaru looking like he is going to his day job where as Ryo seems to have gotten to hot during training . You also have Chizuru and Mai looking different but nothing to crazy.
Now there are weird ones such as Robert looking like a count. Terry looking as the Western guy in a kung fu flick and Athena as a cat girl. Now yes Robert is rich so a count would fight him. Terry did study Kung Fu and Athena being an idol can explain her outfit. But it is still out of character.
Now I don’t think we will see this in an actual KOF game as it would be a huge under taking. But it is nice to see how would look and play. Now I can’t say that for all characters as I have not seen Leona and they just started the Nest saga so we still have to see them play. But those are my thoughts on this. Let me know what you guys think. Can awaken characters equal to Gold characters of GG or unlimited characters of BB? Or am I wrong. Let me know.
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