SNK Corporation has released a brand-new trailer to prepare for the arrival of Fist of the North Star protagonist Kenshiro into the Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves roster. Kenshiro will be arriving this month, and the trailer, which you can check out below, gives us a better look at his various abilities in the game. The trailer has also confirmed that Kenshiro will be playable in Episodes of South Town, complete with the ability to get level up by getting into various fights.
As you might expect, Kenshiro is largely equipped with close-range abilities based on his pressure-point-focused martial art – the Hokuto Shinken. The martial art focuses on causing internal damage to Kenshiro’s targets by targeting specific hidden pressure points throughout their body, destroying it from the inside. SNK has described his in-game combat style as being “highly technical”, since quite a few of his moves will revolve around status changes and combo options that leave the opponent guessing.
Kenshiro in Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves is being voiced by Clayton Alexander in English, and Shunsuke Takeuchi in Japanese. His arcade mode story revolves around Kenshiro trying to figure out why he is in the strange world of Fatal Fury. However, the answers to these questions will have to wait, since Kenshiro has to ensure that the weak stop suffering at the hands of tyrants in South City. To do this, he has decided to enter the new King of Fighters tournament in the hopes of confronting Wolfgang Krauser.
In Episodes of South Town, Kenshiro will be able to meet popular Fatal Fury characters like Terry and Mai, among others. The story here largely revolves around a strange miasma spreading across the city.
Kenshiro is available as part of the Season 2 pass of Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, available for $19.99.
The character was first announced as making his way to Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves all the way back in Japan. At the time, the trailer didn’t really give us any indication of his gameplay. Rather, it focused on setting the tone and involved Kenshiro showing up just in the nick of time in a city ravaged by dust and pollution before a young girl and a child are about to get assaulted by some thugs in an alley.
His June release window was announced back in March with a new trailer that, while still avoiding any gameplay reveals for Kenshiro, at least gave us our first look at his in-game design.
Kenshiro will be the sixth character coming to Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves as part of its Season 2 pass. SNK has confirmed that it has plans to release six more characters in the coming months before wrapping the game’s second season up. The last character added to the roster was Mr. Karate, who arrived back in May. Season 2 has also brought in Kim Jae Hoon, Nightmare Geese, Blue Mary, and Wolfgang Krauser.
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves is available on PC, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S. For more details, check out our review from back when it first came out.
