Where do you guys rank COTW in the series?
Not that the dust has settled, I don’t think SNK will make a major shift to the mechanics or has the balls to make 2 lanes and ring outs universal. And tbh both are an afterthought and for nostalgia sake. A proper 2 lane system is in the Real Bout series.
I rank it below Garou mark of the wolves, which means 5th place. I consider the real bout series the best FF games. SNK should have never ditched 2 lanes especially after they made it so integrated and fluid. Ring outs had their flavor. Even low tier characters had a chance to win due to how they worked in different stages.
REV system sucks and SNK wanted to chase the sf6 crowds with it, let’s be real. They failed miserably. Like drop the fanboy hat for a sec… do you really get excited when they release a character when at the end of the day they are all slaves to the bad mechanics? Story is below mid, some characters I don’t even know what they’re on about anymore (Geese, Billy, Rock), Happy endings for everyone because the game isn’t going beyond COTW. Lifeless and sleep inducing stages that FF3 put them to shame. Terrible balancing and some moves not evolved with the mid system (Geese’s counters).
Obviously SNK was going through a shift near MOTW and had to change things to make things interesting to keep the company afloat. However, that never helped because most of people in the west love Crapcom and SNK was and still niche to them. lol I would put it blow FF3 but that game had everything right except the gameplay.