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Art of Fighting (龍虎の拳, Ryūko no Ken^?) is a fighting game series created by SNKnow-a-days it is known mostly as one one of the many SNK series that ties into The King of Fighters. Art of Fighting was SNK's second fighting game franchise, and somewhat of a risk after the poor commerical success of their first, Fatal Fury.

Gameplay

Art of Fighting was the first fighting game with a super bar, and introduced the spirit gauge and desperation move (the equivalent of super moves, often used with SNK fighting games) into the fighting game vernacular. A spirit gauge is a manually charged super combo gauge where all special moves will utilize and drain, with greater amounts of power dealing greater amounts of damage. The game also introduced camera zooming into a fighting game, so as the characters move away from each other, the camera will zoom out to keep both players on the screen. This affected the gameplay because the left and right side of the screen does not act as moving invisible boundaries anymore (as in Street Fighter II); the stages' boundaries are the only boundaries in the game. Art of Fighting also used a gimmick where characters sprites become more bruised and cut as the fight progresses.

Plot

The games follow the struggles of the students of the Kyokugenryu Karate Dojo, Ryo Sakazaki and Robert Garcia, in what appears to the be the late seventies. Ryo is the son of the Kyokugenryu Karate discipline’s creator Takuma Sakazaki and Robert is the wayward son of a billionaire family from Italy. The initial two titles are set in Southtown, a common location in SNK games that is also the setting for the Fatal Fury series while the third appears to take place in a ficticious area of Mexico.

The plot of Art Of Fighting connects with that of Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting 2, for instance, documents part of the rise of Geese Howard, from corrupt police commissioner to crime lord of Southtown and his first King Of Fighters tournament, by the time of Fatal Fury's stories Geese is crime lord and the KOF tournament is an annual event. Takuma is also said to be a contempory/peer of Jeff Bogard, father of Fatal Fury's main hero Terry Bogard, it is Jeff Bogard's murder at the hands of Geese Howard that triggers the events of the Fatal Fury series.

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