Like the earlier games the artwork was done by Shinkiro. The character Whip was originally meant to appear in KOF '96, but due to Leona Heidern's introduction in that game, the staff decided to wait until KOF '99. This idea was abandoned, but they later created a tribute to it in The King of Fighters 2000 by introducing Rocky, a character from Robo Army, as a Striker for Maxima. The staff wanted to create a Robo Army Team. To contrast with the previous series' protagonist, Kyo, K' was designed to be the "dark hero". As a result, based on the practice of adding earlier versions of various characters to games, the staff created the Kyo clones that featured him with classic movesets: Kyo-1 uses Kyo's movesets from the first two games, while Kyo-2 uses his movesets from KOF '96 and KOF '97. Kyo was redesigned for this game, but the developers still liked his school uniform. Instead, they ended up as unlockable hidden characters after fans responded negatively to their removal at location tests. With the introduction of a new lead character, K', SNK had originally planned to remove main characters Kyo Kusanagi and Iori Yagami, who had previously appeared in earlier installments of the series, from The King of Fighters '99. With its myriad of mysteries, the King of Fighters gets ready to begin!
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Benimaru is confused-he's never seen these names listed at any other fighting events regardless.īenimaru heads toward the tournament venue, clearly unsettled by the circumstances, and the other entrants are soon to follow.
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Meanwhile, Heidern, who sees through the suspicious tournament, dispatches Ralf and Clark to investigate the truth behind this tournament.īenimaru Nikaido, as well, receives an invitation to KOF and to join the Special Team consisting of other carefully selected fighters.Īmong the pre-selected teammates listed appear two names: K' (K-Dash) and Maxima. The fighters cannot hide their surprise at this unfamiliar mode of battle. The adoption of Striker Matches, however, has been decided for this tournament." "The method of combat will be 3-on-3 battles. For the skeptical fighters, even the new tournament rules for battles bode ill. There is not a hint of the hoopla surrounding the entrants like that of the previous tournament which thrilled the whole world. The King of Fighters will take place again this year!īut the circumstances this time around are different. The invitation is sent to fighters all over the world. "You are cordially invited to this year's King of Fighters."
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Igniz death signs the fall of NESTS.Īfter his death, his soul was trapped within Verse alongside many others, he speaks to Sylvie Paula Paula in a special winquote, saying that he is still the strongest and challenges her to best him. Each of K's friends part to their own lifes, as K' decides to bring Kula with him, so that they both can restart their lives.
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Igniz dies, but Kula manages to save K' and his team. K' defeats him, but he decides to kill everyone, starting the self destruction of the base, which falls into Earth's atmosphere and burns completely. He challenges them, telling that after he defeats them, humanity will witness the birth of a new god. He says that he has now surpassed humanity and that their research was a success, allowing him to become a god. Igniz welcomes them, revealing all of his plan. Zero allows K' and his teammates to escape into NESTS base while the shuttle collapses. K's team wins the tournament, so Zero invites them to his space shuttle that was disguised as a blimp, where he fights them but loses. It was then that NESTS became too small for him, so he killed their leader, becoming the new CEO of the cartel.Īfter the Zero Clone attempted to destroy NESTS, he resumed their plan to kill all fighters in the world, sponsoring a new King of Fighters tournament and ordering the true Zero to finish off the winners. He also used the data to make himself stronger and stronger, but this made him start to believe he was stronger than anyone, to the point he believed he had became a god. He was able to create K', Maxima, Krizalid, the Zero clone, Kula Diamond, K9999, and Angel by using NESTS technology. He plotted the whole plan to use the King of Fighters tournament to collect battle data on the fighters and create an army of super soldiers. Igniz was the main agent of NESTS, operating right at the side of their leader.