#273 Kizuna Encounter PS2 \\ Trying all characters & secret boss characters! (Fu'un Super Combo)

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Published on October 26, 2020 1:50:56 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkJbDC6IipM

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The King of Fighters XI (2005)

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Playing Fu'un Super Tag Battle, aka "Kizuna Encounter: Super Tag Battle," in the Fu'un Super Combo compilation on Japanese PS2! I'm taking advantage of the compilation's music options to rock the fully orchestrated arranged soundtrack (made the NEOGEO CD version of the game back in the day), and the compilation's handy secret code shortcut to select the two hidden playable boss characters to try out, after going through the regular cast--on difficulty 4:

0:00 - intro, options, game talk
6:00 - How to Play
7:00 - Rosa & Gozu
16:11 - Shishioh & Chung Paifu
26:28 - Hayate & Kim Sue Il
32:41 - Mezu & Gordon Bowman
43:11 - Joker & Max Eagle
52:46 - wrong boss codes!
1:15:16 - Jyazu
1:21:13 - Real Shishioh
1:27:37 - wrap-up & what's nexxxxxxxxxxxxxt!

Man this game is fun--such big, flowing hits and combos! I wish it had more backgrounds and maybe a few fewer clowns and claw ninja clones, but the sort of "Neo Tokyo" setting is a fairly unique one for SNK, especially in 1996--although I suppose you could make an argument for them having brought back some of the flavor of this for the "NESTS" arc and characters in the King of Fighters games that started in 1999.

Oh huh actually it's closer to home than Neo Tokyo: Wikipedia's page for Kizuna Encounter's prequel, Savage Reign (the other game in the PS2 compilation: it's got dual-level stages and is not really my thing), says the games are set in a future ("first half of the 21st century" ; ) version of Fatal Fury's South Town--which explains some things, like why Kim Sue Il looks just like FF/KOF's Kim Kaphwan, why Sho Hayate and Jyazu appears as characters in KOF XI (although that doesn't make sense in terms of timeline, unless they live a really long time : o; oh: SNK Wiki says on Jyazu's page that "the same designer who oversaw his development also did bug checking for Kizuna Encounter"; oh and Wikipedia says Jyazu is the final boss, and Real Shishioh is the sub-boss, so I had that backwards :p), and why Wikipedia's entry on the old dude with the staff, Chung Paifu, says he got his baseball cap from "a man known only as the 'Legendary Wolf'"--an obvious Terry Bogard reference.

Hah and Wikipedia says of Max Eagle (hm I wonder if he's related to Johnny Maximum aka J.Max from ADK's NEOGEO "World Heroes" series ; ) that "the wrestling organization (SWF) Eagle works for is the same one used in the SNK arcade game 3 Count Bout."

(Hm just on the subject of names, Wikipedia says Shishioh is aka "Kage Shishioh" and aka "King Lion," and what this game's character select calls the hidden character "Real Shishioh" is aka "Shin Shishioh" and aka "King Leo.")

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