What I’m saying is that Garou is one the best 2D fighters to have ever existed.Īnd yet the fact it is so criminally overlooked is an absolute travesty. In a similar manner to Street Fighter 3 being set a few years after the events of SF2, Garou tries to take itself into the millennium with a slightly darker, older tone and gives you a mixture of familiarity and newness that gives it a chance for old and new alike to enjoy. What we have here in Garou: Mark of the Wolves is the continuation of the Fatal Fury series, several years later. To suggest I’m getting off point is actually… a little correct but not entirely. Sorry, people, but no: WHERE’S SEUNG MINA? Instead, all we had were screams of “WHERE’S KILIK?” and “WHERE’S KILIK?” and “WHERE THE FUCK IS KILIK?” over and over. Soul Calibur 5… was not received well despite doing the exact same thing and going forward a distinct period of time. Characters looked older and evolved into better fighters.

Maybe Tekken 3 DOES but after a twenty-year gap of sorts between 2 and 3, and then every other game pretty much running this timeline into the dust, the fact we still have certain characters in the game really doesn’t have the same immersive feel as it ought to. Do you remember back when they released Tekken 3 and everyone had aged like 20 years or something (apart from Anna and Nina who were cryogenically frozen)? And you know how the King of Fighters series started all the way back in 1994 and pretty much ended naming itself after the year in 2003? That’s a ten-year cycle whereby everyone looked the same and nobody really aged.

Garou mark of the wolves terry bogard