This Week in the Mercury
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Games The King of Fighters XIII: The Spoils Of Games Journalism
Posted by Earnest "Nex" Cavalli on Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:02 PM
Normally that embed above would be a single video — maybe a kitten doing something adorable — but in this case it's an entire playist I compiled this morning that includes every single promotional video released for The King of Fighters XIII. See that light-grey square next to the resolution settings at the bottom of the clip? Click that and you can scroll through them all. Otherwise they'll play sequentially for the next 40 minutes.
Atlus published the SNK Playmore-developed game here in the States and as is their wont, the company has been blitzing my inbox over the past half-year with imagery and short vignettes featuring the game's 30 gorgeously-illustrated martial artists.
Usually these clips land in a gaming writer's inbox only to be met with cynicism and a quick trip to the Gmail archive, but given how impressive the game is — especially given the half-finished clusterfuck that was 2009's The King of Fighters XII — I felt that maybe these videos could better be used to actually promote the title to the general public.
If nothing else, you get a sense of just how good classic 2D animation can look on modern, high-definition gaming consoles.
Most Commented on Blogtown, PDX
-
Scenes from the the No on Fluoride Party. Which Is Winning by Denis C. Theriault
-
Bunkered Down: Pro-fluoride Edition by Dirk VanderHart
-
Gloaters Gonna Gloat by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey
-
"Tin-Foil Hat Parade," at City Hall Tonight, Celebrates Fluoride Defeat by Denis C. Theriault
-
The Pope Doesn't Understand the Point of Atheists by Paul Constant
-
I Don't Think Superman Actually Eats Like This by Bobby Roberts
-
Hey, Slackers! Your New Arts Tax Deadline is Monday, June 10 by Denis C. Theriault
-
Do Spoilers Really Matter? The Relative Importance of Storytelling in Film by Bobby Roberts
-
Birth of a Killer Tornado by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey
-
Scientology's Shiny New Church/Giftshop by Alex Falcone
Our Friends
- UrbanHonking
- Culture Shock
- Portland Roundball Society
- Steph Cassano
- Cort and Fatboy
- Street Roots
- Powell's Books Blog
- Portland Transport
- Portland Afoot
- Bike Portland
- Eater: PDX
- Portland Food and Drink
- Mr. Movie
- Sunday Softball
- BlueOregon
- Sightline Institute
- Ultra: Arts Portland
- Bitch Magazine
- Blazer's Edge
- Reading Local: Portland
- Portland Food Carts
- Stumptown Vegans
Our Enemies
RSSGoing to Seattle?
