It's been a long time coming, but the Fatal Fury franchise is officially back with Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, a new fighting game from SNK that will be launching early 2025.
There's no word on target platforms for the game yet, and truth be told, we personally think it's a possibility that it might skip the Switch entirely for Nintendo's eventual successor. That said, with the entry built on Unreal Engine 4, it's entirely possible that it could be optimised sufficiently for the Switch.
Either way, judging from the new character trailer from SNK - in which we see fan-favourite Terry Bogard square up against the likes of Rock Howard, Hotaru Futara, Tizoc, and Preecha - the game is looking incredibly slick with some truly wonderful visuals and effects on display.
We've got our fingers crossed that this one will hit the Switch when it's released, or at the very least make its way to the Switch's successor. We'll find out more in the coming months as we get closer to the game's launch in early 2025.
What do you make of the new Fatal Fury so far? Will you be picking it up? Let us know your thoughts with a comment down below.
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Game visually looks alot like Street fighter 4. Not a bad thing
Even putting "Wolves" in the title is a bold move. We do not invoke the specter of MotW lightly....
Lets go! The visual in this new FF title is 🔥🔥🔥!
The fact that there's no concrete release date and still no platforms announced makes me think this is coming to Switch 2.
@Itachi2099 Lmao my same thought dude. Considering the one Saudi game fund is not only the new owners of SNK, but also have a roughly 5-10% stake in Nintendo, and were able to put Terry in Smash to specifically rep Fatal Fury, I feel like they have to be having worked on for Nintendo's next system, which would be awesome because if this was a launch title, I think this would be my game to pick up lmao
The new character Preecha is a cutie pie, a very fun character to have in this series. She'll fit right in with B. Jenet.
It’s nice to get a new Fatal Fury. I love the series but would have preferred a new Last Blade.
Excited for this but will be playing on PC regardless.
Wow, that's flashy! Did they contract King for those visual effects?
I liked Preecha's older design more. Her new look has so much goth egirl feel imo. Those specific hair colors are gonna attract some really annoying people also.
Note to all prospective fighters: take off your glasses before you step into the ring.
@1UP_MARIO Yeah it looks like SFIV mixed with Streets of Rage 4.
Wait, WHAT?! English voice-overs? SNK don't have money to do a thing like this. Their Story Modes in KOF games are unvoiced. Also, no chance that this game is coming to Nintendo Switch. SAMURAI SPIRITS and SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy looks unacceptably disappointing on Nintendo Switch. In handheld mode, at least.
@Diogmites Me too, but... Let's be honest – there's no plot reason for the 3rd game to exist. Musashi Akatsuki "died", Shigen died, Yuki sacrificed herself, Kôryû/Gaisei became dead again... Setsuna was stopped, I guess. Hibiki... I don't understand why she was/is popular. There's no good reason for the 3rd game to exist, imo.
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@Vyacheslav333 I don’t think of plot as being a significant reason for any fighting game to exist or not, but i see your point.
I don’t understand why Hibiki crosses over into everything either.
Hurrah, Fatal Fury! Release this on Switch!
But I worry, will it render without a hitch?
I want to get a demographics survey. It's well document that every Spanish and Portugese speaking country in the western hemishpere loves SNK, along with South East Asia and parts of the Middle East, but how large is the foot hold in the UK? Is it like Top Cat where you two have this cross Atlantic appreciation for it, or is it like Evangelion where no nation on Eartch could ever love it, nor should love it, in the same way Mexico does?
@AlexanderDaniels LE GASP!
(Actually, that design doesn't do much for me, either.)
Good to see City of the Wolves make it's return. The graphics is bold, the gameplay looks to be a mix of old Kof 94 and Guilty gear, and Rock along with the old guard has some new moves. Can't wait to have this out and hopefully on a Switch conso...
WAIT!
Am I hearing an English dub? From an SNK game?
The last dub was (unofficially) from KOF 13. KOF 12 was the last attempt.
my childhood 🔥🔥🔥🔥
You had me at Tizoc. I only hope you can change the voices to Japanese, I associate Tizoc with his V.A., Hikaru Hanada
@HammerGalladeBro Japanese VA remains. There's an alternate trailer.
Have never had the pleasure of playing a Fatal Fury game, but this one looks great so it could very well be my first one!
Still hard to believe that a sequel to Mark of the Wolves is happening. The game is looking pretty good.
Didn't remember it looks this good, will keep an eye on it
I really, really, really don't like this type of voice acting.
Mark of the Wolves is one of my all time favorite fighting games. This one, I'm on the fence about as I don't really like all the special effects making so much screen noise you can't actually see the fighters and their moves. It just looks like they are punching each other with cans of confetti. I know I'm in the minority (or I think I am), but I just think fighting games are overdoing it with the laser light shows these days.
What's the difference between Fatal Fury and King of Fighters?
@Rainbowfire they're just 2 different fighting series that share some characters between each other. Fatal Fury games are usually more personal and are around Terry Bogard and his cast of characters, while King of Fighters is about a broader SNK universe(it has characters from Fatal Fury, Samurai Shodown, Ikari Warriors etc)
@Rainbowfire : Long story short, KoF is SNK's standalone crossover series that features several characters from Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, Psycho Soldier, Samurai Shodown and more, in addition to its own original characters (Kyo, Iori etc.), and KoF is also known for its 3-on-3 team gameplay among other things.
@JohnnyMind I would like to recommend to play Garô: Mark of the Wolves first. And Real Bout Garô Densetsu2 THE NEWCOMERS (especially battle archives version on PS2/PS4) too. 🙂
LOVE the art style, and I find it interesting they're sticking with Garou MotW in keeping the fighting to a single lane, rather than the dual-plane stages of earlier Fatal Fury games.
I just hope they bring back Marco Rodriguez with his original localized name, Khushnood Butt, so we can get more Butt-Rock matches
Looks decent, don’t know if it’s just me nitpicking but there is too much sparkle effects when characters are getting hit and it is hiding the lazy animations.
@Olliemar28 I hate to be that guy, but her name is Hotaru Futaba, not Hotaru Futara.
@JohnnyMind You should check out the original, it's $7.99 on the eShop, I think it even gets down to $3.99 on sale!
@JJtheTexan I think his localized name is dead and gone because they now call him Marco Rodriguez in the AOF team story mode in KOF XV.
...So that's why Futaba was trending on twitter...I clicked on the trend expecting another Futaba and was disappointed. lol
@Vyacheslav333 Will eventually get the former since I've seen that luckily it's on Switch (I've never had any PlayStation unfortunately), thanks for the recommendations!
@FG_Enthusiast Yep, as soon as Vyacheslav333 mentioned it I checked Deku Deals and saw it there - interestingly enough it has been on sale only once, between the end of November and the start of December last year -, thank you for the recommendation, too!
@JohnnyMind Oh, okay!
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