Art of Fighting

Art of Fighting (Japanese龍虎の拳, Ryuko no Ken ), or AOF short, is a beat- 'em - up series from SNK. The first part was published in 1992 for the Neo Geo. The series is the prequel to the Fatal Fury series.

4.1 characters from Fatal Fury
4.2 figures with appearances in other games
4.3 Other Figures

History

The central plot of the first Art of Fighting revolves around the rescue of Yuri Sakazaki, the sister of one of the protagonists, Ryo Sakazaki. The story takes place before the events of the Fatal Fury series instead, as the father of Terry Bogard, Jeff Bogard, is still alive.

In the successors of the game, the story focuses, however, more to the difficulties and intricacies of the Sakazaki family and their fighting style karate, which is called in the game Kyokugen - ryū (Japanese " Extreme style "). Like other elements of AOF, the family Sakazaki in the games from The King of Fighters occurs.

Art of Fighting itself takes place in 1978, Part 2 and 3, 1979, if one uses the specified dates of birth of the fighters (for example, Ryo is specified with the year 1957). When SNK figures from their various series brought together to derive (another story universe is that) to form The King of Fighters, the birth dates of the Art of Fighting were adjusted fighters, so that the age differences between the fighters of the other series were canceled. This was done in order to draw new and not the "real" age-adjusted character models must.

Gameplay

Art of Fighting was the first game with a so-called super bar, and also led the Spirit gauge and the Desperation move one. Under Desperation move is meant a kind of despair strike which consists of many combined kicks and punches. The Spirit gauge is charged manually, and is consumed in each special move. But the actions are then stronger, causing more damage on the enemy.