So I'm saying favourite and not best because my pick is nowhere near the best but I really like it. Be prepared for an unnecessarily long post as I explain this twist and why I like it.
So The King of Fighters 97 (yes I'm talking about KOF again but I'm in that mood thanks to XV) marks the end of the Orochi Saga that follows Kyo Kusanagi, Iori Yagami and Chizuru Kagura (known as the Three Sacred Treasures) as they try to reseal the powerful being known as Orochi while its followers try to free it from the seal that Kyo, Iori and Chizuru's ancestors put on it.
In KOF 96, the three beat Leopold Goenitz (one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Orochi) who vowed that the seal would be broken soon. In KOF 97, a new team is introduced known as the New Faces Team, made up of Yashiro Nanakase, Shermie and Chris.
Spoiler alert; one of these three is going to become Orochi (on the right) by the end of this game.
Now, the game seemed to put a lot of focus on Yashiro (the one in the middle) out of the three. He was the Team Leader (a role usually reserved for the most important/strongest member of the team) and is featured prominently in the game's intro, as shown below;
When the first twist of the game is revealed (that Yashiro, Shermie and Chris are the remaining three Heavenly Kings in case you didn't already guess or know that), Yashiro once again takes a prominent role in providing the late game exposition dump. Shermie and especially Chris say and do very little during this part of the game. SNK is practically telling you that Yashiro is the game's big bad at this point. So, last attempt at guessing who Orochi will be.
Will it be Yashiro?
Will it be Shermie?
Or will it be Chris?
If you picked Chris, then congrats! You win absolutely nothing!
Yes that's right, the little kid of the trio is in fact the one who becomes Orochi. I don't really know if this was obvious when the game came out in 97, but I feel like Yashiro taking the focus in the intro and pre-match info dump was designed to make players think it would be him that you'd be fighting, so I was really surprised when I played KOF for the first time and realised that out of the three, Chris was the one who became Orochi. Like I said this isn't the best twist nor is it the most exciting but I personally love swerves you don't expect like this.
So then era, as a reward for reading through my KOF lore dump you can feel free to tell me what your favourite video game twist is and why you like it! Remember though this isn't an argument about which is best, just which ones you like.
So The King of Fighters 97 (yes I'm talking about KOF again but I'm in that mood thanks to XV) marks the end of the Orochi Saga that follows Kyo Kusanagi, Iori Yagami and Chizuru Kagura (known as the Three Sacred Treasures) as they try to reseal the powerful being known as Orochi while its followers try to free it from the seal that Kyo, Iori and Chizuru's ancestors put on it.
In KOF 96, the three beat Leopold Goenitz (one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Orochi) who vowed that the seal would be broken soon. In KOF 97, a new team is introduced known as the New Faces Team, made up of Yashiro Nanakase, Shermie and Chris.
Spoiler alert; one of these three is going to become Orochi (on the right) by the end of this game.
Now, the game seemed to put a lot of focus on Yashiro (the one in the middle) out of the three. He was the Team Leader (a role usually reserved for the most important/strongest member of the team) and is featured prominently in the game's intro, as shown below;
When the first twist of the game is revealed (that Yashiro, Shermie and Chris are the remaining three Heavenly Kings in case you didn't already guess or know that), Yashiro once again takes a prominent role in providing the late game exposition dump. Shermie and especially Chris say and do very little during this part of the game. SNK is practically telling you that Yashiro is the game's big bad at this point. So, last attempt at guessing who Orochi will be.
Will it be Yashiro?
Will it be Shermie?
Or will it be Chris?
If you picked Chris, then congrats! You win absolutely nothing!
Yes that's right, the little kid of the trio is in fact the one who becomes Orochi. I don't really know if this was obvious when the game came out in 97, but I feel like Yashiro taking the focus in the intro and pre-match info dump was designed to make players think it would be him that you'd be fighting, so I was really surprised when I played KOF for the first time and realised that out of the three, Chris was the one who became Orochi. Like I said this isn't the best twist nor is it the most exciting but I personally love swerves you don't expect like this.
So then era, as a reward for reading through my KOF lore dump you can feel free to tell me what your favourite video game twist is and why you like it! Remember though this isn't an argument about which is best, just which ones you like.
