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Also appearing on: PlayStation (1997), Saturn (1997)
If you ask any hardcore KOF fan which game was the best in the series, he or she will either say the '98 edition or this one. KOF '96 was the point that the series hit its prime. It introduced characters such as Leona and Vice and brought back Geese Howard, and there were nearly 3,000 possible combinations of teams to choose from. The ability to roll through attacks, as well as run continuously, was also added in the '96 edition, making the game even faster than before. While Rugal was the head honcho in KOF '94 and '95, it was time for a new enemy to step forward. Goenitz was introduced to the series, and with his arrival started the Orochi storyline that involved Iori and Kyo. Kizuna Encounter (1996, NeoGeo)
This was a tag-team-based fighting game with gigantic characters. You picked a team of two characters, and during the match, you could swap between them by tapping the D button while standing in a special tag zone. Otherwise, combat was weapons-based, and the game played like a cross between early Fatal Fury games and the Samurai Shodown series. The biggest claim to fame for Kizuna Encounter is that the English home cartridge version is extremely rare. Whereas a home cartridge of the original Metal Slug goes for roughly $1,000, Kizuna Encounter has sold for upward of $5,000.
She's a great actress, and was an interesting character in the beginning, with her sociopath social media savvy persona, but she soon became annoyingly obsessive and childishly whiny. I wanted to root for her being a young empowered and clever female lead character, but instead, she felt needy, self-involved, and just too hard to like at times. most times. The forced love story definitely didn't help me like her character. I guess some people found her devotion cute, but I thought it was creepy. I think people liked her IDGAF attitude, but I found her selfishness irritating, which overshadowed anything I liked about her initially.
That brings me to the plot, which was just messy! It starts out as the motivational story of a pied piper of misfits bringing random people together to create his dream to fulfill his epic plans of revenge, and suddenly focuses instead on a really bad love story. I can't blame the age gap, because the first drama I saw him in was a romance with a huge age gap. I just think the match didn't work and was so awkward to watch no matter how hard they tried to make it a thing.