Have you heard the one about the King Of Fighters shmup? Hilarious right? Okay, stop laughing. It's not that funny. Everyone seems to be writing King of Fighters Sky Stage off as being disgustingly Japanese, but I for one think this game has more moxie than half of the Days of Arcade lineup combined.
Let's take inventory on the things that we know will make KOF: Sky Stage awesome.
-The game is a verticle shmup, so that means that all of us that shelled out cash for a fancy-shmancy HDTV now FINALLY have an excuse to turn the telly on it's side. This may be a problem for plasma owners, so please consult your manual before verting.
-You play not as a space-jet, but a FIGHTING GAME CHARACTER. That means you will finally be able to put those blue energy projectiles and flame kicks to good use against alien spacecraft.
-This will undoubtably NEVER come out in America, which makes it even more amazing because we can only imagine from afar how fun it would be to fly around shooting lasers as Terry Bogard.
Kudos to SNK for flying their freak flag high.
This reminds me quite a bit of espgaluda and esparade and those were seriously amazing games. I am telling you man, shumps are the new "hip" thing, more-so than fighters I think.
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