Nowadays, although SNK's games have long lost their status as game halls and have been on the verge of bankruptcy many times, they have finally survived, and have successively created the latest works of classic IPs such as "The King of Fighters 13", "The King of Fighters 14", "The King of Fighters 15", "Heroine Smash Bros. Fight" and "Samurai Shodown Dawn", I have to say that SNK's vitality is really tenacious!
Over the years, in order to raise funds to create more orthodox sequels, SNK has taken "selling children and selling girls" to the extreme, as long as the slightly famous characters have almost all made cameo appearances in other games, and even some characters have been involved in hundreds of works including mobile games, terminal games, animations and fanworks (Ignorant Fire Dance: Or hold my ID card?). ）
It is precisely by relying on the forcible support of these classic IPs that we have the fighting game boom we see today.
I have to say, SNK is more far-sighted! In the early years, all the characters were built into classic IPs, and now each one is more valuable than the other. So much so that the fighting games we see today are more or less related to SNK characters. Keith messed into "Tekken 7", Overlord Maru messed into "Soul Ability", and Shiranui Dance messed into "Street Fighter 6...... Other fighting games are even more.
Interestingly, in order to enrich the authorized characters, SNK made the previous characters with memes into female characters.
So there is a saying that "in order to please players, you can even change sex", and today I will study this topic with you.
Shiranui Mai masculinization
Before "Legend of the Hungry Wolf 2", SNK originally wanted to create a male ninja to participate in the war, but in the end, it found that the popularity of Chun-Li in "Street Fighter 2" skyrocketed, so it deleted this already designed ninja and recreated a small meat ninja who dressed very similarly to Chun-Li: Mai Shiranui
Unexpectedly, this design directly changed the pattern of the entire fighting game, resulting in many fighting games in the later period being imitated. Chun-Li and Mai Shiranui began to compete in secret, participating in various fanworks to show their popularity and status.
Years later, when Chun-Li regained super popularity with her thick legs and muscular image, the warm nephrite in the eyes of players was instantly unfragrant. So SNK released the blueprint of the Ignorant Fire Dance Male, and secretly licensed it to other mobile games to appear as a villain BOSS.
The idea was good, but the game was strangled in the cradle before it was released, and we didn't even see the game modeling.
But let's be honest, isn't the female dance fragrant? After becoming a man, it's not normal who loves whom!
Yagami-an and Kusaka-kyo
Who is the most tsundere character in the King of Fighters series? Yagami Ann dares to say that it is the first, and no one dares to admit the second!
But it's just such a character who has made a lot of appearances in the big smash brawl game. In order to be on a par with Kusanagi Kyo, Yagami-an even disguised himself as a woman to participate in the war. Wearing a face mask to save face, anonymous as Miss X. Funnily enough, after the big fight, he was recognized by Kyo Kusanagi, and the embarrassing picture made many players scratch their toes.
Kyo Kusanagi, who has a girly image that appears after being bloodsucked by Dimitri in SVC. Later, a girl named Kyoko appeared on SNK, which is a tribute to this image.
Gao Yanzi
At present, the most popular character in Nianghua is Gao Nizi, who is ridiculed by players as a TV girl.
Gonitz, who appeared in SVC, gained super popularity after being transformed by Dimitri, and we can see this character in all major MUGEN in the later period, and it is becoming more and more popular. And this phenomenon was discovered by SNK pachinko designers, who came up with the idea of making her an independent character.
It wasn't until years later that this idea was realized in a mobile game, with Gonitz appearing in The King of Fighters All-Stars.
Gao Nizi is the first person to turn positive from MUGEN.
Gonitz probably couldn't have imagined that one day he would have to be a mother to please players. And what's even more excessive is that in the related books of the same works, Gao Nizi puts her figure very low.
Terry
Terry's fate is similar, obviously the first protagonist of the "Legend of the Hungry Wolf" series. Just because of the cameo appearance of SVC, there was a girly image, and many years later, SNK has not forgotten this stalk, messing him into the all-female fighting game "Heroine Smash Bros.".
This legendary wolf, in order to please the player, has become a sexy girl who is sad to judge every action.
SNK also invested heavily this time, imposing all the images that players can fantasize about on him. So much so that now we can't bear to look at this character in "The King of Fighters 15".
Other feminine characters
With the increasing number of mobile games licensed by The King of Fighters, it seems that it no longer meets the needs of players. So there was a rough man transformation plan. Some mobile games, after getting the license, want to make those seemingly marginal characters more popular (in fact, they just don't want to spend money in vain).
Zhen Yuanzhai, Chen Guohan, Cai Baoqi and other characters have actually become cute girls. This kind of operation can be said to be unprecedented!
After these characters became mothers, the attention of the game has greatly increased. And players are gradually changing their perception and perception of them. Those shameful fanworks portray these characters in depth. So much so that now when I play "The King of Fighters 97" again and see Chen Guohan playing ball, I have an inexplicable impulse.
I know I shouldn't, but I can't help it!
In fact, many years ago, the motherhood of all members of "The King of Fighters" was already on the agenda. It's just that SNK intends to keep the bottom line, so it didn't add these girly characters to the orthodox work.
But that doesn't seem to stop fanfiction lovers from playing with a new look for all the characters in The King of Fighters. What were once hateful characters, but now one by one is clearer than the other.
Look at them, can you name them?
Although arcades have become a piece of history in the development of games, they have not been forgotten over the years, but have always been sought after by nostalgic players.
Now it's the world of the post-00s, and all kinds of new games are emerging one after another.
And our generation of gamers has long been in a state of flux, and no matter how fun a new game is, it can't arouse interest.
After many years of wandering, we look back again and realize that the carefree time in the game hall was really too luxurious
Note: Some of the pictures in the article are from the Internet, such as invasion and deletion