KOF XII: Basic Thuganomics feat. Kim, Raiden, Ryo Sakazaki and Robert Garcia

From the official site we get a 4 piece drop of combos to gawk at. Enjoy.

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• KOF
• XII
• BASIC
• THUGANOMICS

[rrruizzz]

Robert Garcia looks pretty badass.

[BombermanGold]

lol internet trolls.

[TheBoredomOtaku]

@MisterWhat If you look up the manga "Karate Baka Ichidai" which was made to portray the legacy of Oyama being the only man mad enough to take on the Thailand champions himself you will notice that Ryu and Sagat's designs in Street Fighter bare striking resemblence to Oyama and the Black Cobra's manga versions. Oyama has also fought many a wrestler in his life when travelling the US and pther countries which may be the inspirtaion for the many Wrestlers in SF and AOF, avoiding copyright.

[TheBoredomOtaku]

@MisterWhat I have looked more into the oirigin's of Ryu and other street fighter characters, it seems the closest thing to an inspiration for Ryu was he was based off of the real life Korean Karate master Mas Oyama. Oyama had created hsi own style of karate and many years ago had traveled to Thailand to take on the biggest fighters in Muay Thai and defeated the champion Black Cobra. His legacy is also what spawned the creation of Mr Karate amongst the SNK fighters.

[MisterWhat]

@TheBoredomOtaku Japaneze mythology? Maybe, but i think it`s more gaming mithology. There was already a fighting character named Ryu before the SF Ryu who had a spinning kick and a projectile attack. He just didn`t wore a Gi. And before that character there was "Champ", where Ryu and Ken are visually based from. Yes, you can`t copyright that, but the reason why AOF gets the slack, was because the creators of both that series are SF were one and the same, and players back then didn`t knew that.

[TheBoredomOtaku]

@MisterWhat If you look up the game Fighting Street that is Ryu and Kens first appearance where they had the famous Hadoken, Shoryuken and Tatsumaki senpu kyaku which they kept when putting them into Street Fighter 2 and so on. Those 3 moves pretty much set the base for a lot of future fighting game characters having a projectile, uppercut and a move to get across the screen. They couldn't copyright SF characters as they were based off of Japanese mythology so anyone could base them off that.

[TheBoredomOtaku]

@fctar Haha it's fine :L

[TheBoredomOtaku]

@fctar As I said I already know this, the pink gi is to mock Ryo's red one and he also wears Rob black T-Shirt under his gi. He also does the little bicep flex Rob does as a taunt.

[MisterWhat]

@TheBoredomOtaku

Was it a mock, though? The guys behind AOF were the same behind SF. But Ryu and Ken look alot like the main characters of the biggest fighting game franchise that came before, "karate Champ".

Let`s face it, Karate guys arent really original, in terms of visual power. They are just cool.

[TheBoredomOtaku]

@Lioyd1rving Well since Art Of fighting pretty much transcended to KOF they are pretty much mocking the same game/company anyway so I'm not wrong in saying either.

[Lioyd1rving]

@TheBoredomOtaku To mock Art of Fighting, not KOF. (Another fun fact: behind Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting are the same two guys that did the first Street Fighter. Fatal Fury itself was already in development before SFII's release.)

[TheBoredomOtaku]

@Lioyd1rving I already know about Dan being there to mock KOF after KOF made Ryo pretty much the same as Ryu but with Kens gi colour and blonde hair. Dan was basically capcoms middle finger to them for stealing their characters :L