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A playthrough of the exclusive hidden character Geese Howard in the PS2 port of SNK’s The King of Fighters XI.

The PS2 port of this game adds no less than seven exclusive hidden characters. Admittedly, they’re all taken from Neo Geo Battle Coliseum, but at least they’re giving you a bunch of loaned characters for free rather than trying to make you pay for them (coughUltraStreetFighterIVcough).

Geese Howard returns yet again. This is the sixth video I’ve done including him since returning to this series, and I still have more to do after this. If you’ve played as him in KOF 96 (or if you check out my video on the ’96 Boss Team from this link here:    • #28 King of Fighters '96 BONUS: SNK Boss T...  ), you’ll recognise the toned-down fighting style he has here. His reppukens are back to the projectile-less wind slashes, although his Jaeiken and Shippuken seem to have better range than I remember them having. He has his typical supers, of course including his regular Raising Storm, as well as his Nightmare Geese variant as a LDM. He also has Deadly Rave here, a move which I can pull off in training but certainly never in action.

All in all, this is very much the offensive/defensive hybrid Geese common throughout many SNK titles. Not much different from before (though certainly much more refined since his KOF 96 days).

Up next, another returning Fatal Fury 1 boss.