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The jumps remind me a lot of the jumps arcs in SF4 which isn't surprising since it's the same battle director. However as long as the hops are quick I don't see the issue with the regular jumps being floaty seeing as how you shouldn't be jumping forward to begin with. I don't really know of any none-anime fighter that made jumping forward a legitimate strategy unless you have a good read or spaced yourself well enough.

At any rate the news sounds great and the game looks like a mix of 98/2002 with ideas from XII.

I posted this in the KOF reddit but also wanted to spark a discussion here.

I realize this topic has become a reoccurring criticism against KOF XIV and for good reason. Given the leaps in graphics we've seen in games such as SFV,MKX,DOA5,GGXrd and tekken 7 it would only be reasonable to single out any fighter that doesn't meet the standards set forth by any of these games. I will concede that KOF XIV's graphics fall short of any of these games and won't attempt to argue that they are not indeed dissapointing. In my opinion it is a valid criticism and given the stated intention from the people behind the game in wanting to make KOF the #1 fighter I can see why underwhelming graphics will be a struggle for fans and newcomers to overlook.
In saying this though I do have to draw attention to the extremist of this criticism who attempt to argue that the game is comparable to PSX era graphics. It's one thing to have a legitimate complaint but when you dial that complaint to such a ridiculous and exaggerated degree it removes all credibility and sincerity. If we're to be objective and removed of any bias either for or against the game, the game's graphics hovers around 360 era. To demonstrate this point I have compiled comparisons between KOF XIV and SF4. The KOF XIV images don't represent the completed product as we all know so regardless of how good the game will look upon completion we can at least be assured it will look better then the images provided here. Keep in mind I'm not attempting to argue that KOF VIX is graphically impressive or that it will look magnitudes better when completed. Instead I'm just saying the game is in no way shape or form a PSX or PS2 era title and can confidently be considered next gen even if it's by 360/PS3 standards.
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