The SNK Thread

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Here's a new trailer for the 40th Anniversary Collection featuring the Ikari trilogy.



Also, NISA is going to have another SNK panel at PAX West with Frank Cifaldi. They're also teasing another announcement for SNK Heroines. I'm guessing it'll be for DLC.

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Here's an interesting panel from Anime Expo with SNK artist Eisuke Ogura on the design of the characters in SNK Heroines.

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Here's some more stuff I wanted to share/archive.

Here's a cool artwork of Kensou from Psycho Soldier drawn by Hiroko Yokoyama who was SNK's artist back in the day.

And here's a collection of her artwork that she did for Crystalis (aka God Slayer in Japan). Very cool stuff.

Recently, she wrote a twitter thread about her experience with discrimination in the video game industry. Brandon Sheffield translated it into English. It's an interesting read.

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The first DLC character for SNK Heroines has been revealed, and it's a crossover character from a Square Enix franchise that I'm unfamiliar with.



Interesting for two reasons: 1) The trailer flashes "first crossover character" on the screen. 2) Didn't SNK have some legal issues against Square Enix a few years back?

It's also unclear if it's paid or free. (I'll be cynical and assume paid.) EDIT: Confirmed paid.

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Just watched the stream of the NISA/SNK panel at Pax West, and they showed off a bit more of the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection.

The big news is that they will be adding 10 more games to the collection as free DLC after launch. They announced the first five: Sasuke vs. Commander, Fantasy, Joyful Road/Munch Mobile, Time Soldiers, and Chopper I.

They also showed some of the other features, including content in the museum mode, as well as the ability to watch a playthrough of any of the games, with the ability to jump in and take control at any time. (Sounds kinda like the old Super Guide thing Nintendo put into some of their games.)

For SNK Heroines, they showed a silhouette for the next DLC character, and confirmed it would be another crossover character.

I'll post a link to the archived video here when it's available.

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SNK has put up a teaser site with a countdown that's apparently for new game announcements.

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New Samurai Spirits/Shodown announced!

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The next DLC crossover character for SNK Heroines is revealed as a gender-swapped SkulloMania from Fighting EX Layer (and you may remember originally appearing in the old Street Fighter EX series):



This was not entirely unexpected. Thief Arthur was kind of an "exchange" character due to Iori Yagami appearing as a guest in the fighting game Million Arthur: Arcana Blood. And at EVO, Terry Bogard was revealed to be a guest character in Fighting EX Layer, so it was suspected that a character from that game would also be a guest in SNK Heroines.

And now, that leaves one unfulfilled exchange: Geese Howard was in Tekken 7. So, it seems likely a Tekken character will be the next (final?) guest character in SNK Heroines.

EDIT: Oops! I forgot that Mai Shiranui was in Dead or Alive 5, so I guess there could be a guest character from that, also.

As for the game, itself... I don't have it. Just didn't seem worth a full-priced purchase for the thin roster + extra for DLC characters + having to get the Nintendo Switch Online service to play online. Not to mention some reports that the Switch version has some performance issues.

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Oh yeah, here's the SNK panel from PAX West a few weeks ago, or at least the part that's worth watching.



It's mainly just an overview of some of the games and features of the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection. However, one interesting thing they mention is that the original 1980 arcade release of Sasuke vs. Commander contained a bug that caused the game to crash at a certain point, so it was impossible for anyone to actually beat the game and see the ending. But with the release for this collection, they fixed the bug, so for the first time ever, people will be able to complete the game.

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Here's the tease for the next DLC character in SNK Heroines. (And a link since it seems that tweets don't always embed properly.)

Speculation is that it's probably Miss X from the old SNK Gals Fighters, who was one of the most requested characters for SNK Heroines.

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And it is, indeed, Miss X! And there are both male and female versions, plus a Kyo costume.



This is fantastic! It's really cool that SNK listened to the fan requests and actually put Miss X in the game, especially since he/she is such an obscure character!

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The final batch of games has been revealed for the Anniversary Collection, and they include not five, but SIX more games! They are: Beast Busters, Bermuda Triangle, Ozma Wars, Paddle Mania, SAR: Search and Rescue, and World Wars.

All 11 DLC games will be available on December 11!

The trailer for the first five games came out a couple of weeks ago, but I guess I never posted it. Here are both trailers:

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Just wanted to archive this Twitter thread of Frank Cifaldi talking about the obscure games they selected for the Anniversary Collection.

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Another Twitter thread, this time with Brandon Sheffield talking about how he was able to research SNK's first game, Space Micon, by meeting with an obscure Japanese collector who owned one. Apparently, a lot of info available online about SNK's earliest games is wrong.

Check out the whole thread. It has a lot of nice pictures.

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Stuff like that is fascinating. I'm glad that that wild west era is being preserved by folks like Digital Eclipse.