More announcements coming at Evo 2024
It’s been quite a while since Season 2 content officially came to an end for The King of Fighters 15, which left many fans wondering about the future of the game with Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves on the way.
SNK just announced tonight that more DLC is indeed on the way for KOF15 though their working is a bit interesting.
There was no word on KOF15’s future until basically this past weekend where SNK Producer Yasuyuki Oda said in an interview that they were not done with the game yet.
In fact, he said they have “a few more characters” planned for King of Fighters, which is interesting given the wording used by them today.
The “special” designation likely means there will not be a full Season 3 for the game but rather a final truncated batch of fighters as the focus shifts to Fatal Fury.
Writing it like they do in this statement could also imply only a singular character remains, but considering what Oda said, it’s more than likely going to be at least two or three on the way.
The big question on everyone’s mind right now is wondering if this last bit of DLC for KOF15 is going to be a Street Fighter team crossing over.
With Terry Bogard and Mai Shiranui just recently revealed as Street Fighter 6’s first guest characters, that does seem like a very likely possibility.
But at the same time, it doesn’t make as much sense to use such a big crossover promotion on a game that’s entering its final year with another anticipated release on the horizon.
Sure it’d be cool to see Ryu, Chun-Li and Guile or Luke, Jamie and Kimberly on their own actual KOF team though the time for that collaboration to have the most impact has already passed.
Waiting to bring a few Street Fighter characters into City of the Wolves seems like the more sensible choice, however, we’re not the ones in the business meetings.
This could also be a time for SNK to give fans a sneak preview at Fatal Fury’s return with maybe a few characters like Preecha or the recently revealed Vox Reaper helping to make the transition to the new game.
Or maybe this is just their last chance to get in any KOF characters they can’t or don’t want to use in City of the Wolves, so May Lee fans don’t give up hope just yet.
Since we already got Rugal and Goenitz outside of the season passes, there’s still the chance too they could close out KOF15 with the return of other previous boss characters like Krizalid, Orochi and / or Saiki.
More details are scheduled to be announced at Evo 2024 next month running from July 19–21 where we’ll also likely see more Fatal Fury characters too.
【KOF XV】
Special DLC character development confirmed!
Details will be announced at Evo 2024!
Stay tuned!#KOF15 #KOFXV pic.twitter.com/oC2HBEJbo2— SNK GLOBAL (@SNKPofficial) June 13, 2024