Somehow this is extremely addictive. The art style is very nice and the soundtrack is lovely if you like ambient synth music and the likes of Ray Lynch. One of the main themes sounds like a very chill version of "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" by Cyndi Lauper. 100% recommended at sale price.
KOF2002 is a superb fighter, but this release has several breaking problems: - Emulation speed is tied to monitor refresh rate. Game will be absolutely unplayable if you have a fast monitor unless you force a slower refresh rate. 60Hz seems to be work. - Emulator has no antialiasing. This game was designed for an arcade cabinet. If you don't have a CRT monitor, the game will look like a pixelated mess. - Control bindings are not configurable. - No support for a second controller. For two-player games, one player must use keyboard controls. It's a really disappointing release and feels like shovelware. The release developer could have spent very minimal effort on the emulator configuration to fix all of these issues. Apparently "DOT EMU" handled the emulation but they don't even list this release on their website. The only upside is that you can drop the ROM files into a decent emulator and have a legal/ethical copy of the game. As for the game itself, it's SNK in top form: great character designs and voice acting, lots of cute and geniunely funny animations.
