The King of Fighters '99 playthrough (PlayStation/PS1, 1CC)

Описание: Playthrough with the Fatal Fury team. This port nearly broke me mentally. It’s odd, when I beat this ages ago I can’t recall having issues with it, but maybe I just blocked it out of my mind or something. Or the PSN version, which is what I used here, has issues the original version didn’t. There are two major things wrong with it. Firstly, the controls. This port eats inputs like crazy, it’s difficult to even get the basic quarter circle forward/back moves working.

Secondly, the AI is horrific. You can barely call it AI, all it seems to want to do is counter everything the player does most of the time. It won’t simply block or get hit, it’s just counter, counter, counter. I don’t know if the difficulty is glitched in this version or something but it feels way harder than the Neo Geo version. Combine this with the control issues and I think this is the worst KoF PS1 port, the ’95 port was bad but at least I could get the moves working on it.

The best feature in this port is the extensive art and sprite galleries. These were also in the Neo Geo CD version, but the advantage here is that some of the images are now in color, where they weren’t in the NGCD version.

The Fatal Fury team have two endings in this game, which one you’ll see depends on who you beat the final boss or bonus boss with. If you win with Mai, you’ll get the ending seen in this run. If you win with anyone else, you’ll get the other ending. This port has a cutscene viewer, so I show the other ending at the end of the playthrough.