{"id":20147,"date":"2020-05-22T00:01:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T00:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20147"},"modified":"2020-05-13T13:27:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T13:27:20","slug":"the-ladies-of-gals-fighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/22\/the-ladies-of-gals-fighters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ladies of Gals Fighters"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Recently I reviewed Gals Fighters<\/strong><\/a>, one of the best games on the NEO GEO Pocket Color.\u00a0 I loved that little handheld, and I\u2019m glad they ported this game to the Switch!\u00a0 It took a more silly, lighthearted tone.\u00a0 Female fighters from other SNK series compete in the Q.O.F. (Queen of Fighters) tournament to win a talisman that grants any wish.\u00a0\u00a0 But the stories they gave to each of the characters and their wishes are pretty silly, and since I like talking about silly fighting game characters, I thought I\u2019d make a separate blog about them!<\/p>\n

A couple of notes before we get started, though. I actually reviewed this game way back when I was writing for The Dallas Morning News.\u00a0 I can\u2019t believe that was almost 20 years ago!\u00a0 Sadly, I let a friend borrow my cartridge of it, and he lost it, which is a shame since it\u2019s such a rare title now.\u00a0 But that\u2019s why I don\u2019t let people borrow my games anymore!\u00a0 Also, a couple of years ago, SNK made another female only fighter called SNK Heroines.\u00a0 I have that game, too, but I didn\u2019t make a blog about the characters in it because that game seemed to focus more on fanservice than silliness.\u00a0 But now let\u2019s take a look at Gals Fighters\u2019 characters!<\/p>\n

Mai Shiranui<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m never been a huge fan of Mai.\u00a0 It\u2019s cool she\u2019s a ninja lady and I like how she gives her boyfriend Andy Bogard a hard time.\u00a0 But she\u2019s a bit too fanservice-y.\u00a0 With that said, I do have a poster of Mai I got at E3 that was signed by one of the SNK character designers \u201cFalcoon.\u201d\u00a0 No it\u2019s not hung up or anything like that.\u00a0 Anyway, in this game, Mai\u2019s wish is to marry Andy, but then Andy says that he\u2019s actually a woman.\u00a0 But then Mai wakes up and it\u2019s all a dream.<\/p>\n

Leona Heidern<\/strong><\/p>\n

She\u2019s one of my favorite SNK characters because she has blue hair and wears army clothes and she\u2019s strong.\u00a0 Plus she\u2019s on the Ikari Warriors team, and you know I like references to classic games!\u00a0 Some of her silly attacks here include throwing giant hand grenades.\u00a0 In her story, she enters the Q.O.F. tournament because she\u2019s been grumpier than usual because of a toothache that she hasn\u2019t told anyone about.\u00a0 When she wins, the others on her team point out she can just go to a dentist, but she refuses to go to that extreme!<\/p>\n

Athena Asamiya<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not a big fan of Athena but I like the history behind her.\u00a0 Originally she had her own game called Psycho Soldier, but she\u2019s also the descendant of a character in an older game titled Athena.\u00a0 She\u2019s in a lot of the King of Fighters games, and is on a team with other characters in the Psycho Soldiers game!\u00a0 It\u2019s a tradition for her to change her outfit in every KOF, and at the time of Gals Fighters release, she had short hair.\u00a0 So her wish is to get long hair back!\u00a0 But in the ending, her agent calls (she\u2019s a pop star, too), and tells her to cut her hair again!<\/p>\n

Shermie<\/strong><\/p>\n

She\u2019s one of my favorites as well, but I\u2019m not really sure why.\u00a0 I like her name and that her hair covers her eyes so it looks like she can\u2019t see anything.\u00a0 In the main KOF games, she is on a team who is trying to revive an ancient Japanese demon, but in this game she uses her wish to get a new cage for her pet hamsters.\u00a0 The other members of her team even point out she could\u2019ve used her wish to revive Orochi.\u00a0 I just like the silly juxtaposition.\u00a0 In the scanned instruction booklet, they call her \u201cShelmy\u201d even though her name is correct in the game!<\/p>\n

Yuri Sakazaki<\/strong><\/p>\n

She is the sister of one of the main characters in Art of Fighting.\u00a0 I think she was made in response to Capcom\u2019s Sakura, as both companies had a bit of a rivalry back then.\u00a0 Her wish in this game is to be as good as her brother, but her ending makes no sense.\u00a0 She wishes for a gym of her own and her brother comes in and asks where the talisman is and there\u2019s a bunch of FWOOSH sound effects and it\u2019s all in text with no pictures.\u00a0 Then she says, \u201cOh no, it happened again.\u201d\u00a0 What happened?\u00a0 Did the talisman get flushed down the toilet?\u00a0 I dunno.\u00a0 Only other notable thing about Yuri is that I used her a lot in the King of Fighters ALLSTAR mobile game because I unlocked a rare version of her in a baseball uniform, which was both cool and adorable.<\/p>\n

Nakaruru<\/strong><\/p>\n

She\u2019s one of the main characters in Samurai Shodown.\u00a0 She fights with a bird, but I didn\u2019t see it in Gals Fighters.\u00a0 Her wish is to just go back home, as she is from the past.\u00a0 When she gets her wish, she crashes into her sister Rimaruru!<\/p>\n

Shiki<\/strong><\/p>\n

She\u2019s a cool ninja lady with two swords.\u00a0 I could\u2019ve sworn she was from Last Blade, but Mr. Internet says she\u2019s from Samurai Shodown.\u00a0 Her wish is to see her child again.\u00a0 Aw, she\u2019s a ninja and a mommy!\u00a0 That\u2019s even cooler!\u00a0 In her ending she is holding her baby.\u00a0 Nothing silly about that.\u00a0 But I guess not everything has to be silly in life.<\/p>\n

Akari Ichijou<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now this character is from Last Blade.\u00a0 She\u2019s a typical Japanese priestess girl (think Pocky from Pocky and Rocky).\u00a0 She uses Japanese spirits to fight and warps around the room a lot, but also uses a frying pan to hit others.\u00a0 In her ending, she can\u2019t decide what she wants to wish for!<\/p>\n

Whip<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like Leona, she\u2019s also on the Ikari Warriors team.\u00a0 I bet you can guess what weapons she uses a lot!\u00a0 In her ending she asks to remove her curse, but the talisman says it\u2019ll take a few years.\u00a0 Well I didn\u2019t even know she had a curse.\u00a0 Whip is a secret character you get by playing all the other characters.<\/p>\n

Yuki<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is an interesting one.\u00a0 Yuki is the girlfriend of one of the main KOF characters.\u00a0 She\u2019s never been playable in any other game, just a background character or a plot device.\u00a0 Gals Fighters is her only playable appearance.\u00a0 You unlock her by completing the game once.\u00a0 I think she\u2019s meant to be a joke character.\u00a0 She\u2019s a typical Japanese schoolgirl, and since she\u2019s not a fighter her attacks show as much.\u00a0 She hits with her purse, hides her head behind it and does the \u2018nerd slap fight\u2019 thing, and even yells out the word \u201cNO!\u201d as an attack!\u00a0 In her ending, she threatens to reveal who Miss X really is.\u00a0 Which brings us to\u2026<\/p>\n

Miss X<\/strong><\/p>\n

The mysterious Miss X is the final boss in the game.\u00a0 But you know what?\u00a0 She\u2019s actually Iori dressed in drag.\u00a0 Iori is one of the main KOF characters and is a dude with red hair that covers part of his face, and he\u2019s kind of scary.\u00a0 Most of the girls figure out who he is in this game, though.<\/p>\n

And those are all the fighters.\u00a0 In the comments section, let me know who your favorite SNK characters are!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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