The fighting game that was brought into being to highlight the awesome potential power of the N64 hardware, now with... things!
Yeah...
What I remember about KI was that it was pretty for its time at a time when being graphically pretty was a major factor... Because people were paying twenty-five to fifty cents to play it and games like it, and clustered around its glowing screen to watch its prettiness and wait for their turn to control the pretty. This is the same era where Mortal Kombat's over-the-top violence and digitized-photo graphics made it a showpiece.
The game itself was kind of crap. No offense to anyone who enjoyed it, but it didn't exactly have deep mechanics and compelling gameplay; it had ridiculously long combinations occasionally interrupted by the other player's desperate flailing or the computer player's typically cheap ability to throw out a combo breaker at will. The characters were so shallow and stereotypical that they made Street Fighter look like a Jane Austen novel.
Why bring this back now? Other than that it's a license that people still remember with a lingering nostalgia?
Yeah...
What I remember about KI was that it was pretty for its time at a time when being graphically pretty was a major factor... Because people were paying twenty-five to fifty cents to play it and games like it, and clustered around its glowing screen to watch its prettiness and wait for their turn to control the pretty. This is the same era where Mortal Kombat's over-the-top violence and digitized-photo graphics made it a showpiece.
The game itself was kind of crap. No offense to anyone who enjoyed it, but it didn't exactly have deep mechanics and compelling gameplay; it had ridiculously long combinations occasionally interrupted by the other player's desperate flailing or the computer player's typically cheap ability to throw out a combo breaker at will. The characters were so shallow and stereotypical that they made Street Fighter look like a Jane Austen novel.
Why bring this back now? Other than that it's a license that people still remember with a lingering nostalgia?
