{"id":502657,"date":"2025-11-17T01:49:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T01:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/king_of_fighters_15_review"},"modified":"2025-11-17T01:49:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T01:49:43","slug":"king-of-fighters-15-review-sticking-to-its-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/king-of-fighters-15-review-sticking-to-its-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"King of Fighters 15 review &#8211; sticking to its roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/king-of-fighters-15-review-sticking-to-its-roots.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>I wasn&rsquo;t too sure how I&rsquo;d feel about <strong>King of Fighters 15<\/strong> before I&rsquo;d gotten my hands on it. As a teenager I dabbled in King of Fighters 2002 and King of Fighters 13, and as a snobby adult I love looking back at some of the original entries from the 90s and 2000s. But in recent years, my attention has largely been driven away from SNK&rsquo;s headline series in favour of the likes of Guilty Gear or Tekken. I&rsquo;m happy &ndash; more than happy, ecstatic &ndash; to write that this dry spell has come to a definitive end with King of Fighters 15. <\/p>\n<p>First things first, let&#8217;s break down what you get with the launch package of KoF 15. Overall, it&rsquo;s a fairly standard selection for a fighting game at release, with a few sweet standouts that help bolster up the total offering. You&rsquo;ve got your local versus and training modes that you&rsquo;d expect from any fighting game, alongside the game&rsquo;s dedicated story mode &ndash; an arcade mode with some unexpected flourishes that plastered a big grin across my face. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, the story is a cheesy paranormal affair with a clown car full of different characters (some of whom possess mystical martial arts powers) fighting in yet another worldwide fighting tournament. The game rushes through the lead-up to the events of the narrative with the kind of hurry you&rsquo;d see from someone rushing to catch the train to work; every fighter receives a letter saying &ndash; and I&rsquo;m paraphrasing here &ndash; &ldquo;look bud, you know the deal by now. Come to the King of Fighters tournament and throw down.&rdquo; By the fifteenth entry, I suppose it&rsquo;s fair to assume that people know the context by now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/king_of_fighters_15_review\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/king_of_fighters_15_review\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&rsquo;t too sure how I&rsquo;d feel about King of Fighters 15 before I&rsquo;d gotten my hands on it. As a teenager I dabbled in King of Fighters 2002 and King of Fighters 13, and as a snobby adult I love looking back at some of the original entries from the 90s and 2000s. But in recent years, my attention has largely been driven away from SNK&rsquo;s headline series in favour of the likes of Guilty Gear or Tekken. I&rsquo;m happy &ndash; more than happy, ecstatic &ndash; to write that this dry spell has come to a definitive end with King of Fighters 15. First things first, let&#8217;s break down what you get with the launch package of KoF 15. Overall, it&rsquo;s a fairly standard&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/king-of-fighters-15-review-sticking-to-its-roots\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":502658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[222,59,52,44,45,702,1771,99,4616],"class_list":["post-502657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-fighting","tag-pc","tag-playstation","tag-ps4","tag-ps5","tag-snk","tag-the-king-of-fighters-15","tag-xbox","tag-xbox-series-x-s"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>King of Fighters 15 review - sticking to its roots | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I wasn&rsquo;t too sure how I&rsquo;d feel about King of Fighters 15 before I&rsquo;d gotten my hands on it. 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