King of Fighters XII

[Dragon Turtle]

Originally Posted by The S

Kind of makes me sad that there's only supposed to be about 20 or so standard characters, especially compared to KoF's of the past. What is with the new trend of later installments of fighting games having LESS characters than their predecessors?

In the case of KOF XII, SNK decided to go with a very time consuming process to animate the characters (they first used 3D models and then drew the sprites over them), this most likely took a toll on the number of available characters.