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Watch this King of Fighters XII footage and pretend you're winning

by JC Fletcher on May 21st 2009 9:45PM

We never get tired of staring at King of Fighters XII. We were pleased, then, when Ignition sent over this new video of a match featuring Elisabeth Blanctorche, a recent addition to the KOF XII roster, facing off against SNK mainstay Joe Higashi.

Confession time: when it comes to fighting games, even though we adore them, we're used to experiences like what the Joe player here is going through -- crushing defeats. Over and over again. At least with KOF XII, we'll get to lose online to a variety of opponents, which is somewhat novel for KOF. We like to mix it up, you know? Lose in the arcades sometimes, then lose at home with friends, then lose a few online matches. Maybe we'll try losing a couple of rounds with an arcade stick.

King of Fighters XII

Tags: elisabeth-blanctorche, fighting, ignition, king-of-fighters, king-of-fighters-xii, Microsoft, snk, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (32)

lound fo

leady?

I had to rewatch it...
so true

I'm... so... ronery. I'm ronery. I'm ronery and sadry arone. Thewe's no one, just me onry, sitting on my rittre frone...

Poor rittle... meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ♫

When losing, have you tried blocking? Or, avoiding those leg sweeps that the other character is throwing at you OVER AND OVER AGAIN?!?

You know whats a good counter for leg sweeps? JUMP KICKS

I don't need to pretend, for I IZ THEH EPIK LEETZ!!1!

...in my mind...

Quick! before I play the video, who I am suppose to be so I win?

Am I the only one thinking that animation looks awfully stiff?

Clayfighter.. that's what I was thinking of. Thanks.

Seriously, though, I hate it.. those sprites are gorgeous, but it seems like there about half as many of them as really needed to make it smooth. Too much floating and jerking from one animation to the next. Hmm.

When I was watching I was thinking the same thing.
Pretty sprites, but animation is nowhere near Mark of the Wolves

I both loathe and adore the graphics. I get the same feeling when I look at cats.

Side question: Justin's been kind of absent lately, hasn't he?

After Street Fighter 4... King of Fighters & Blaze Blue are going to be hard sells.

Man, Joe's voice actor totally sucks. Please tell me this is just the American version and we'll be able to select his original Japanese voice actor upon release.

I was thinking exactly the same. What... the F.... is... that... voice?

Anyway. Looks kinda choppy for me, but I'll always love KOF. Hope it looks better on my actual screen (not the animations, the sprites)

yup u will be able to choose

His stance is also a lot like Sagat's.

DITTO, his voice does sucks!!!

Man, they really messed him up with this voice

@Magicman: Wel, they bouth are MouTai / Kickboxing fighter, hence their stances are too similar.

Though, when i first saw Addon on the alpha series though he was pretty similar to Joe, but resulted Addon is a pupil of Sagat, so the 3 of them use MouTai martial art

thats a big ol stage

just curious.. maybe it's cuz I haven't really gotten into KoF and it's a common detail, but why was Joe's energy bar not all the way full at the start of the match?

Its KoF, so instead of 1v1 you have 3v3. Notice that Elisabeth Blanctorches team has already lost 2 fighters to Joe's one; this is round 4, he's already fought a round and taken some damage.