A tune from one of the games that both my brother and my Army-bound friend love lots.

It's funny how I fell in love with this game back in 2007 when it came out. I was never huge on "The King of Fighters," but I had always recognized it as a great series. What especially always struck me as interesting was how SNK Playmore seemed to ALWAYS treat these games like works of art, and it's always a plus in my book when a game company treats the work of their affiliates as actual art instead of treating the finished product as "just another game." It's always a pleasure to see a streak of art preservation when it comes to games, no matter their subject. That the work of an artist is thought to be included in a game as unlockables is always a plus to me, because I just looooove seeing the stages that characters, objects, and landscape concepts went through before anything was finalized for the finished product. And SNK Playmore's got a plethora of intelligent works under their belts, just like Capcom does, and also like other 'giant' companies like Konami and Square-Enix do.

I remember this tune from the darker, harder days of my life. It may only be something of a game, and even one of the title's less "stellar" pieces as far as music goes, but since the game was so polished and well designed in such a new-age yet old-school fashion, that was easy to overlook. Plus, I just enjoy fun-sounding, "wobbly" music, especially before an epic beatdown ensues...



...of which I was usually on the losing sides of...



My brother is by FAR more 'boss' at "Street Fighter"-esque fighting games than me. He could fuck em' all up with Gouki (Assuming he were playing "Capcom vs SNK 2" instead of KoF XI, that is... x3 ).