Let's see how feasible it is to make a KOF game that pleases EVERY KOF fans. Alright, remove HD and keep Drive and Ex moves, make neomax available as well as HSDM, then put XI tag mechanism back. Let's see that's: A power bar, a drive bar, a skill bar, (incidentally) striker bars for 2000 fans. Plus some people actually liked kof 2001 4-characters style, so we included that in too, since if you play with only one character you can get extra power bars, we put in a whole new Maxcancel (TAGHIDDENDREAMMAX CANCEL!!) to make the bars worthwhile. AND as an afterthought, put HD back in there to please 2002 fans. Hell we can put plane-shifting and fake-out move and breakable move like in garou.
Wow....perhaps we can make a KOF game with two selectable modes again, like advanced or extra but with wildly different features. One mode has fakeouts, breakmove, and ex as well as tag-system and HSDM, the other has HD, drive cancels, neomax and strikers.
My mind is blown...too much awesome.