Kaiser Knuckle (JPN) [Arcade] - play as General
23This is a playthrough of single-player mode using General in the Arcade game Kaiser Knuckle. Read on below for more information...
General is the hidden true final boss in this game. He is a non-selectable character.
For demonstrations of his other things see the BONUS timestamps in the Chapters section below.
===== ABOUT GENERAL =====
General is the commander of a space station in orbit, and is the sponsor of "The Kaiser Knuckle" tournament. His reasons for holding the competition is a mystery.
===== GAMEPLAY BOSS PROPERTIES =====
As General is an unplayable boss character, he will of course have moves that are extremely powerful, fast and have high priority; and/or be performed via unorthodox command inputs. Some of these include:
A super-fast low sliding sweep that travels a large distance and hits multiple times if blocked.
His three Special moves are his Normals, performed via simultaneous 2-button presses (which would give a regular character the strength 4 and strength 5 Normal punches/kicks).
His two aura attack special moves instantly come out without delay and inflicts high damage.
===== TECHNICAL/ADDITIONAL INFORMATION =====
On the character select screen, when General is highlighted, his icon on the wheel is of Gekkou.
In single-player mode, after he is selected and begins the game, he uses Marco's prologue story. You will only see this in the Japanese version of the game (the version I am playing in the video).
After he loses a match, on the losing screen when his 'body' moves up, it turns into and uses Marco's body sprite, but keeping his color palette which makes it looked glitched. This fault occurs because General is never supposed to appear on the losing screen. You can see this starting around 24:26 in the video.
When playing as the General, on the VS screen, before it enters the fight screen, he will crash and reset the game because he has no 'entrance' routine programmed in. You can see this starting around 26:29. This is because he isn't meant to appear on the VS screen. You must skip/bypass the VS screen to progress. What is interesting is that the first part of the routine has been made (where he gets up from sitting).
He only has the one colour palette we see in the video.
Despite being an unplayable character, he operates perfectly on the Continue screens.
His Super Punch, Extreme Punch and Extreme Kick (which are his Normals by pressing two attack buttons together) are his Special Moves!
On Marco's stage/background, when the area to the right is broken and accessed, General appears on a TV monitor in this area.
On the hidden final stage against General, the player General enters the fight screen in the same way as the CPU General!
===== TRIVIA =====
General's 'aura' special moves could have been inspired by M. Bison's hand auras from SFII.
In the game, in the invite text of the prologue, the world 'Knuckle' is spelled as "Knucle".
The USA version of the game is known as Global Champion. As well as the title text, the title screen is also different in it.
Kazuya, Lihua and Liza had their character select/versus screen portrait/icon images changed/edited in the non-Japanese versions of the game.
In the non-Japanese versions of the game, the doctor/ambulance guy who runs in after a match is removed.
In the non-Japanese versions of the game, the character prologues have been removed.
===== ABOUT KAISER KNUCKLE =====
Kaiser Knuckle is a game released in 1994, where the 'structure' of the roster is somewhat loosely based on Street Fighter II: The World Warrior - and that is with 9 selectable characters and 3 unplayable bosses. Because of this structure, General is a character that sort of reminds me of M. Bison in a way... only in terms of him being in a soldier's uniform and the whole army getup.
===== CHAPTERS =====
00:00 - Intro, Title, Character Select
01:08 - Prologue
01:28 - Regular fights
16:23 - vs. Gonzalez
18:44 - vs. Azteca
20:33 - vs. General
23:12 - Staff/credits
24:09 - Name entry
24:26 - BONUS 1: General on losing screen and Game Over screen
25:02 - BONUS 2: General on Continue screen and continuing
25:25 - BONUS 3: General time over poses and special Draw Continue screen
26:28 - BONUS 4: General crashing the VS screen