SNK developing King of Fighters shmup for XBLA

W...T...F?

epic win

Eat your heart out Touhou.

WE HAVE WINRAR!!!

DO (not) WANT

See, when I saw the original headline on Kotaku, I thought a more refined Wartech. Fighting plus the shooting, that was the easy conclusion. Not this.

Mind, not that shooting bullets out of your hands is a bad thing. Life would be a little easier if we could all shoot bullets out of our hands. And don't forget flying.

Actually, in some of the screenshots, bullets actually appear to be flying out of the top of the character's heads. Which could push the meter a little more towards the 'too awesome' side....

Japan sure does make some weird shit

Hmmm, looks like keeping my Xbox 360 around was a good idea after all. ; )

Is this going to be another game without Mai? And if it isn't... will there be jiggle physics?

SNK? In MY Touhou (http://touhou.wikia.com/) ? I think I just shat bricks.

"Ah yu Okei?"
No, Terry, I'm not...

Why?

wtf? No Street Fighter Shooter?

It will never overthrow Forgotten Worlds!!! I'll finish you today for sure!

Actually, people flying around shooting fire bullets is pretty much standard in any 2D beat em up.

So think of it as a fringe game, similar to Puzzle Fighter II or something? I think it's a good idea, and a fun re-application of characters... I love King of Fighters, so, I'm interested.

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"Maybe you haven't heard: People. Flying. Shooting. Bullets. Out. Of. Hands."

So it's Dragonball Z?

So, has King of Fighters officially jumped the shark?

I wonder why the heck aren't they using the whole screen for this one. It's not like it's a port of an arcade game or anything...

The XBLA 1942 does a great job of utilizing the whole thing, BTW.

Finally - The Super Spy gets some love.

That was the very first Neo Geo game I ever played.

Looks like that ESP Rade shmup. It was pretty cool :)

Not to mention "Cannon Spike" for the Dreamcast. A lot of people missed out on that game.

"Maybe you haven't heard: People. Flying. Shooting. Bullets. Out. Of. Hands."

Like a good chunk of recent Japanese shumppery? That isn't anything new.

A KOF shmup, though, is a pretty amusing idea.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20060909.gif

As always SMBC is relevant to the discussion

Capcom did it. I believe it was called Cannon Spike.

I used to think "shmup" was the dumbest, laziest term coined in the last three years. You are going to shorten a nine letter word by taking out all but one of the vowels and a 't'? Lazy! And dumb, too! But I have seen the light. It's so much easier than typing those stupid hyphens! Not to mention it sounds so much like schmuck. Now I love it just as much as slapping "-gate" after anything remotely controversial!

Here's some more game genre names we can shorten to make them sound totally cool, just like shmup:

Fting - Stupid 'igh'... It's so stupid to type three letters when one makes the same sound...
FiPS - just like CHiPs! Hold it, this involves typing extra letters...
RiTS - mmm... reminds me of Ritz crackers... oh wait, extra letter again. Maybe we could make the i invisible...
Porm - who doesn't like porm? Look at all the great examples: Mario games, Sonic, Castlevania, Little Big Planet... Porm is great!