Funny, Ignition (the publisher who will live in infamy with me from now on) didn't indicate on their website — amongst this shocker — all of the following absentee features that make KoF... well, KoF: No final boss, no character intros / outros, only one win pose, only 6 stages (2 are effectively
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swapped), no special effects when finishing a foe with a super, no arcing story, no teams... no nothing... With some 5 teams of 3 characters each still represented, and a
few stragglers, it honestly feels like this game was published incomplete, like the deadline was a sword of Damocles, threatening doom.
And despite how nutty Norse mythology can get the ordinary enemies feel slightly uninspired, with lots of
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swapped trolls and zombie guys but
few really unique designs.