nona’s artwork ranges from atrocious to awesome
he’s definitely gotten better with time though, 2001’s art gives me the shivers
Falcoon sucks.
Well, there goes grapefruit juice all over my keyboard. 
Absolutely. He’s the best SNK illustrator by far.
Does he did SvC Chaos dialogue portraits too? Thoose were damn great! 
Anyone else notice the art for Kyo is a mirror of his original 94’ art…
Didn’t look like Styleos’ work to me, but I’m not too sure who did handle them, either.
Actually, this is the first time I’ve seen this one. That said, yeah, it’s definitely Hiroaki’s work. Thanks for posting it.
The world didn’t end, but knowing the average fighting game fanbase, I am sure (although I wasn’t online or talking to major fighting game fans at the time) that people bitched about Bison’s look.
The problem with this new Ralf is that it doesn’t look like he will still be Ralf. The thing with Ralf and Clark was that for heavy hitters, they weren’t big or stupidly slow targets. Now this obviously isn’t the final version of the game, but from the looks things, that actually has changed.
thats the cover for the PS2 version of 98UM
Damn, this thread is going to suck again since there is not going to be new info for a while!
The World Ends With Iori, it seems…look at all those pins!
That art is a throwback to the original art for 1998, some huge banquet thing…
Yeah, you can even see the original cover art hanging in the background.
2 weeks or so isn’t THAT long. The game will be at the Tokyo Game Show… with 3 more characters. I assume it was mentioned here before already.
aw shit, I didn’t notice that before!
There’s an article at Play Online about KoF XII. The official site is up and Ignition is claiming the game will be released in the US in May 09, one month after the Japanese arcade release.
Here’s the url: http://www.playmagazine.com/index.php?fuseaction=SiteMain.showJapanPage&Japan_ID=232
I like how they already assume that there will only be 20 characters…
director already confirmed only 20 playable characters
Well, SNKP itself has stated that there will only be 20 characters.
edit: beat me to it.
This. Fuck Nona and his shitty SvC style artwork making its way into KOFXII’s sprites. They should’ve based them off Hiroaki, his art in KOFXI was awesome.