(LAST UPDATE: 6/28/2009)
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Developer(s): Yumekobo
Publisher(s): SNK
Platform(s): Neo
Geo Pocket Color
Release Date(s): January 27th 2000 (
), February 19th 2000
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Characters:
Athena,
Akari,
Mai,
Shermie,
Leona,
Whip,
Yuri, Shiki,
Nakoruru, Yuki, Miss X
Related Games:
King of Fighters R1, King
of Fighters R2, Fatal Fury: 1st
Contact, Match of the Millennium
Story: The final
year of the millennium, 2000 A.D. A mysterious invitation makes its way
to female fighters all over the world. Written therein... "2000 A.D. The Q.O.F. Tournament opens! This competition's victor shall
receive the totally awesome "Reward of K': one wish that is to be granted."
Yours Truly, The Enigmatic "X" P.S. "You can only
get one wish, so make it count!"
P.S.S. "All who receive
this invitation must attend. Or else! (No guys
allowed!)"
What's Q.O.F.? And what is the true identity of "X", sender of the
mysterious invitations? At any rate, the excitement is rising! Here now unrolls
the greatest (at least scheduled), bare-all (well, not everything) battle of
self-interest this country will see!!!
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Review:
So as the story goes, the Queen of Fighters Tournament was
organized by Miss X (AKA Iori
dressed as a woman). 
Obviously, the premise of Gals Fighters is quite hilarious and doesn't take
itself too seriously. Either Iori is
just plain weird for dressing as a woman and thinking he could fool the SNK
girls, or maybe he's actually a genius and has a
fetish for watching the SNK ladies fight it out (hey, it worked didn't it?). 
Anyway...
Gals Fighters
is a 1-on-1 fighting game for the Neo Geo Pocket Color, featuring several of
SNK's most famous female fighters. It didn't do much justice to the system,
especially since the Neo
Geo Pocket was already on the decline upon it's release... And it would
seem, a girls only fighting game with a silly premise only has only so much appeal. Perhaps the biggest
factor was that Match of the Millennium was a
much better fighter all together, and it came out almost a year before
Gals Fighters! As a big fan of MOTM, I gotta say there's not much
incentive to play Gals Fighters. It's entertaining for a while, but isn't nearly
as deep or as fun as some of the other handheld
fighters on the NGP.
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Gals
Fighters plays most similar to KOF R-1 and KOF R-2, but with
slightly faster gameplay and a friendlier combo system. It also features items
that a player can equip to influence the matches, but most of the items actually
have no effect on the gameplay. Graphically the game wasn't as impressive as
some of the other NGPC fighters (and games), but what the game lacked in
graphics it made up for in personality and humor. The cut-scenes are quite
funny, along with some of the extra "little" details they fit into the
game. Though Gals Fighters only features female playable fighters, quite
a few males actually make cameos in the game, including Kyo, Ryo, Todo, Takuma,
Kensou, Juzo, Goro, & Yashiro. For a die-hard SNK/KOF fan, this game is a
treat, but this game's "narrow focus" leaves much to be desired.
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6 / 10 |
Closing Comment:
An interesting and unique effort from SNK, but a fighting game with only
girl characters (and a small roster at that) becomes boring after a while...
SNK's girls are great and all, but maybe this game would have been better
if SNK was able to throw in some Capcom gals too! Now that would have
made things more interesting. ~F.Yagami,
Webmaster
of TFG
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