GAROU: MARK OF THE WOLVES

Fighting game for two players had been around since 1976, the pioneer was Sega Corporation's Heavyweight Champ (1976), a black-and-white 8-bit arcade.
And then, many other exciting ones starting to flourish ever since then, from lots of different gaming devs.
But among all of the arcades best hits, it is fighting games from SNK that I liked the most, because most of their games suits my taste and I consider their games as close to perfection. Because nobody's / nothing's perfect.
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I love everything from games made by SNK. Including this one.
From all of the characters design with different attitudes and interesting backstories for each of them, the clothings design that ranging from simple yet still cool to elegantly extravagant, lastly of course the memorable soundtracks.
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And whenever that 'Thank You For Playing' appear at the end, surely I always replied with 'Thank You For Making This Game' on my mind.
All the time. With a big smile of pure blissful joy.
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Now I probably asking too much, but please, SNK. Hear us out.
Me and my gamer buddies will be truly happy if perhaps someday, somehow; will be able to play all of the previous classic Fatal Fury Complete Series.
Starting from Fatal Fury: King of Fighters, known as Garōu Densetsu: Shukumei no Tatakai (餓狼伝説 ～宿命の闘い～, Hungry Wolf Legend: The Battle of Destiny 1991), to Special and Real Bout Series compilations. Will finally be release again, for any generations of gamers to enjoy play them all.
If it will be possible, as well as all of the Ryūko no Ken a.k.a. Art of Fighting. All of their complete series.
But no alterations, no censorships, no unnecessary appropriations.
Just as same as the original version for all of them complete series. From the very beginning, to the last one, right before Garou: Mark Of The Wolves.
Please make it happen.
Please?
Thank you so much, SNK Corporation and Code Mystics.
Me likey!!
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Good if you are casual, bad if you are a Fatal Fury hardcore fan.
If you are here, then you are a connoisseur of fighting games, so I don't need to tell you why MoW is one of the best fighting games of late 90's and early 00's. If you are casual, and don't want to play anothers, then yes, this is a good option to have MoW. The port is fine, easy to use and the game goes well. You can have a good taste this game in their story modes and you have the practice mode, a primitive one, but a practice mode. On the other hand, if you want to play another people, then this is not for you. The multiplayer is already dead (so I can't have an opinion about the netcode, since I didn't find any match), unless you have a friend to play with, you won't find anyone. Just skip this port and go to the fightcades.
Perhaps the barren land that this port is should be enough to don't recomend it. But i want to casual players to find and try this amazing and historic fighting game. So I put thumbs up for casuals and people that want to discover this game (you'll enjoy it). But more competitive people should go to fightcades.

This game is often compared to Street Fighter 3: Third Strike. It deserves to be, you should buy it and play it. It's very very good. Also, you can sharpen up for the new one... check it out its supposed to be out in Early 2025!

I Really enjoy this game, but tthere posittive and negative.
POSITIVE :
+Cool soundtrack, they had jazz blending with rock soundtrack in this game, it make this game really cool. i love soundtrack in this game
+14 Interesting Character and interesting Role, every character have their story and role. you know we had psychopath in this game lmao
+ every character had their own stage and their own soundtrack
+combat in this game easy to learn, they had skill list to learn
+you can invite your steam friend who had this game to duel multiplayer with you
+ there versus mode. , so you can play with your friend or your family in one device
+ Statisfying combat
+ Variety of games mode : Normal story mode, versus mode, multiplayer mode, training, survival mode
NEGATIVE :
-Ai in this game feel so aggresive at default level setting. But you can lower the dificulty level to 1 at option, so you can enjoy the game and story.
- Multiplayer with random people is hard to find. so i recommend you multiplayer with your steam friend

Solid fighter from the days when men were men, German aristocrats sought to save a fallen world, and pro-wrestling was to be taken seriously as a martial art.

The game is damn near perfect. My only complaints are that the AI is kind of annoying and the online is deader than Geese Howard. Overall amazing game, 9/10.

GAROU: MARK OF THE WOLVES is a solid fighting game, and I think it was my introduction to Fatal Fury/King of Fighters. I briefly remember playing it on an arcade machine back in the day, but since I wasn’t into fighting games that much (and still aren’t), its memory is a bit hazy. It took me 2 hours to relearn the basic mechanics, and another good 5 hours to learn how to properly block the incoming attacks, and the rest of the game was spent on trying to learn how to cheese the survival mode on max difficulty because there is an achievement related to it and it’s brutal.
The combo moves are essentially the same input for every character, with differences here and there; thus, it’s quite easy to get into. However, it made me rage a bit after seeing that the AI is nearly indestructible and fool-proof at first, but I got the hang of it and learned to abuse it eventually. In addition to combo moves, each character has an extra move that becomes available upon entering the TOP mode, and it basically serves as a comeback mechanic.
In addition to extra moves and regular combo moves, they also have super S and P moves that become available after hitting the opponent enough. They are triggered by double-directional inputs and any of the attacks, and they are quite powerful. Story mode aside, there are survival and multiplayer modes that you can tackle, but keep in mind that survival mode is quite unforgiving; therefore, you might need to do your homework or learn to abuse AI. I can’t really say much about the story since it’s apparently a continuation of Real Bout Fatal Fury, a game that I haven’t played yet, but strangely enough, I didn’t have any confusion since the events take place a decade after the last one.
The real problem with the game is that it has two ports available: DotEmu and Code Mystics. The regular port is the one made by Code Mystics, which is superior to DotEmu’s in every single way. However, some achievements are still tied to the inferior port that you’d need to enter a code to “Betas” section from the game properties to access it. To add salt to the injury, Code Mystics kept the achievements from the inferior version, and one of them requires clearing the Survival Mode on the highest difficulty. The inferior port has a terrible input lag, which makes things a lot harder than they are supposed to be. Of course, that is a concern for the achievement hunters.
The multiplayer mode is still active, and there are people playing it on both versions, but I’d obviously recommend the Code Mystics port since it has no input lag and latency issues. Oh, and before I forget, I fell in love with the soundtrack. They are so good and fit well with the characters they represent.
TL;DR
A solid Fatal Fury/King of Fighters game. It’s easy to learn, but very hard to master. Having an arcade stick would make things somewhat easier, but if you have a controller, good luck with the achievements.