I seriously love how Dream Cancel's approach to KOFXIV was less destructive of any other gaming community -KOF focused or not- I've been taking news from.
As for the gameplay, we can only guess SNKP is striving to keep as faithful to KOFXIII as possible, but there isn't enough material to be sure about how it's gonna play.
Roster? The newest teaser analysis seems to hint at the leaked 48+2 characters roster, but I'm more inclined to think there will be 30 or so chars.
I understand the graphics are PS2 tier, but hey, why wasn't there such fierce negative criticism when KOF was brought to Atomiswave and it could get Guilty Gear-like visuals? Unless Ledo is helping SNKP directly (ie. giving them lots and lots of $$$) in the development of this game, we can't ask for anything much better than the graphics shown in the second teaser. Kyo's new appearance looks heavily inspired by Japanese and Korean male pop idols...does SNKP want today's young girls to have the hots for him? xD
The main theme sounds to me like current era pop-rock specifically crafted to lure younger audiences in. I have a strong tendency not to like such songs, but this theme is an exception, it actually gets me hyped...maybe I'm too much of a fanboy x'D Voice actors should be the same, but I'm having a hard time recognizing Kyo's voice...too much noise when he's speaking xD
Naw we are definitely getting 48
Pretty excited for the character roster, even though I was really hoping Momoko and Vanessa would return.