SNK Corporation has released a new animated short video implying that the fighting game Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves is getting ready for another major crossover character. The video gives us a look at a city ravaged by dust and pollution, where a young girl and a child in an alley are about to be assaulted by some thugs. The teaser ends right as someone shows up to save the two. The move used by this saviour indicates that it is going to be Kenshiro, the protagonist of the legendary manga Fist of the North Star.
The move in question is reminiscent of the pressure-point-focused finger attacks used by Kenshiro throughout his travels in Fist of the North Star, and the animated short even makes use of a similar sound effect to the manga’s anime adaptation. Assuming that Kenshiro is indeed making his way to Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, we can expect his combat style to largely revolve around special moves featuring rapid strikes that culminate in massive damage caused to his opponents in one go.
The martial art used by Kenshiro in Fist of the North Star is known as Hokuto Shinken. While wanting to live a simple life with his fiancée, Yuria, Kenshiro gets pulled into conflict when his rival, Shin, abducts her after defeating our hero in battle. This prompts him to travel around the world in search of his fiancée, while also getting pulled into stopping whatever new evil plot Shin has cooked up over time.
SNK Corporation has been rather coy about this tease, with even the title of the video simply being an emoji, and its description on YouTube left blank. So far, Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves has mostly seen crossover characters from Street Fighter, with Chun-Li and Ken having joined its roster last year. The title opening up its doors for a manga character implies that SNK Corporation might be expanding the kinds of crossovers that we get to see in Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves.
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves is the latest entry in a fighting game franchise that saw its previous release happen 26 years ago. The current entry, released last year, features several improvements over 1999’s Garou: Mark of the Wolves, including a new REV system that offers players an entirely new toolset for both offensive and defensive options. The system includes REV Arts, REV Accel and REV Blows, among others.
Fatal Fury: Cry of the Wolves has also seen quite a bit of post-launch support with the addition of characters like the aforementioned Ken and Chun-Li, as well as Andy Bogard and Joe Higashi. The final character part of the year 1 content, Mr Big, is slated for release early this year. The fighting game is available on PC, PS4, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. For more details, check out our review, where we gave it a score of 7 out of 10 thanks to its gorgeous art direction and the REV system.
