and has been an interesting idea that a few other titles have handled pretty well too. One option would be the tournament mode that, to my knowledge, originated in Super Smash Bros. That said, I still think there was room for a little more variety.
This is admittedly always a hard ask for fighting games, as there's generally only so much you can do to vary the gameplay up without straying away from the core focus of being. Within the online itself, there are a decent number of options, with ranked, casual, and lobby modes to keep things going. If you’re looking for a good fighting game to predominantly play online, this certainly won’t disappoint. The King of Fighters XV is no exception, being a substantial step up in quality from The King of Fighters XIV's delay-based netcode. It's difficult to understate how much it improves the standard online experience. Within fighting games, rollback netcode has lately become more popular than your mom on a Friday evening, and for good reason. Speaking of the online, it works exceptionally well. The robust training mode (and an online training mode as well) will ensure that you have lots of chances to get familiar with the mechanics, with plenty of options to practice combos and specific situations that you feel underprepared for. There are a ton of fighters here - 39 in total, so if you’re looking to play around with a lot of characters then you will absolutely get your money’s worth. If you are prepared to do that then The King of Fighters XV welcomes you with open arms. In short, if you buy The King of Fighters XV, you should be prepared to solely… well, fight. It also might have been nice to have had some kind of tag mode as an optional fun venture, just to maybe give players a distraction that requires them to think about team composition a bit more. There are no notable single player offerings beyond that either no challenge towers, no separate arcade mode, or even a spin-off offering like Heroes and Heralds from UMvC3 or Shadow Lords from Killer Instinct. The story mode is very bare bones, and doesn’t even have the comically bad writing of NetherRealm story modes to make me laugh at it.
The King of Fighters XV certainly isn’t as bad as something like Street Fighter V in that regard, but it… probably could’ve stood to have a bit more included beyond standard player vs player fighting modes. Still, this is something worth examining, especially after a number of big name fighting games in recent memory have attempted to launch with what could generously be called an “underwhelming” amount of content. So consider this much more of a “how much fun is a random individual with a decent amount of fighting game experience likely to have in a week or so of playing it”, rather than an attempt to gaze into the future and decipher how the meta of The King of Fighters XV will play out and hold up years down the line. Any attempt to really gauge the quality of a predominantly competitive multiplayer game so early into its lifecycle is like trying to judge how good a restaurant is by how inviting the interior looks enough information to tell you if something is seriously wrong, but probably not enough to really prove if it's worth your money.
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Reviewing and scoring what is intended to be a serious, deep competition, the full mechanics of which will only be discovered over years of experimentation by players much better than I, is like not only attempting to grade the weather with a letter, but assigning a letter grade for next year’s weather based on what it’s like today.Ĭompetitive ventures like this, more often than not, can really only be judged in fullness retrospectively. Fighting games, however, are a whole other beast. Still, at least the practice is somewhat feasible for most standard, single player experiences, and even some multiplayer ones.
I’ll admit I have mixed feelings about the practice of providing numerical ratings for video games attempting to sum up a multi leveled opinion on a complex, interactive piece of entertainment with a single digit is like being asked to describe the weather outside with a letter grade. By Paul Broussard, posted on 16 March 2022 / 2,014 Views
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