Each character also has a rival, so while Morrigan may like Mai, she can’t stand Nakoruru. Morrigan has a playful rivalry with SNK’s female roster, but likes Mai. Bison to battle each crew - with each character also getting their own little side stories mixed in as well. The core fighting action is very much like King of Fighters R2, with a story in place where the major SNK villains like Geese Howard team up with M. Beyond non-fighting events, you can also have survival modes and first-trike events that help keep you on your toes.
The so-called Olympic events (and yes, that name is retained in the re-release) allows you to have fighting mini-games or even a miniature FPS-style game with helper characters that offer advice. The roster includes a slew of hidden characters and the game itself has some enjoyable mini games to keep the fighting action fresh during longer play sessions. The Capcom side is still Street Fighter-rich, but features more Darkstalkers characters – including Felicia and Bonnie Hood alongside Morrigan. Most impressively, on the Capcom side, they went a bit beyond what Capcom did for their own game. SNK went for a wider variety of their own roster, with Fatal Fury, KOF, Art of Fighting, Samurai Shodown and Psycho Soldier franchises represented by default with The Last Blade being showcased with a hidden character. Capcom leaned heavily on the Street Fighter series, with only Morrigan appearing outside of that, and went with a Fatal Fury/KOF-heavy lineup for the SNK side. When it comes to the roster, SNK went with a diverse lineup from both their own library and Capcom’s. The EO version of that game on consoles also featured a simplified control scheme to help ease players in - or just enable folks to get great-looking screenshots with minimal effort.īeing the first to bat and with much lower hardware to work with, SNK had their work cut out for them, but did a fantastic job overall.
SNK VS CAPCOM SWITCH FULL
The latter game hit the Dreamcast, PS2 and Gamecube before also getting an Xbox release that wound up being released in full (in the Japanese language) on an Xbox demo disc. SNK crafted a fighting game for the Neo Geo Pocket Color and a card battle game, while Capcom created a full-on arcade game in Millennium Fight 2000 and then a sequel in Capcom vs. A deal was struck to where each company could use the IP of the other company and the company developing the game would get the profit - so it kept that ever-present competition between them alive, just in a different way. Fortunately, as both companies found more success on consoles and had some jabs at one another with various in-game characters, it seemed like a bit of ice was broken and they saw one another as friendly rivals.
SNK and Capcom defined the early ’90s fighting scene, and having a collaboration between the two companies was something of a pipe dream as they were competing for the ever-valuable arcade market. We have seen a handful of the Neo Geo Pocket Color’s best games come to the Nintendo Switch, and now, perhaps the device’s definitive fighter is available anywhere you are.
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