The King of Fighters XIV

The King of Fighters XIV (ザ・キング・オブ・ファイターズ XIV) is a fighting game developed by SNK for the PlayStation 4. The game was directed by Yasuyuki Oda, battle designer of Garou: Mark of the Wolves. It came out in the USA on August 23, 2016, Japan on August 25, 2016, and Europe on August 26, 2016.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) A huge roster of 50 characters to choose from along with 8 DLC characters to chose from, which is a total of 58 characters.
 * 2) Tizoc's Heel persona King Of Dinosaurs, has a few extra moves in his moveset.
 * 3) Over 15 stages to play on.
 * 4) Great soundtrack.
 * 5) Large amounts of single player content, unlike another fighting game that came out the same year.
 * 6) Return of old fan favorite KOF characters such as Geese Howard.
 * 7) Fighting mechanics are very fluid.
 * 8) The gameplay is easy to pick up and play while appealing to the competitive audience.
 * 9) Cinematic cutscenes look beautiful.
 * 10) There is a free update where there would be graphical improvements, a free DLC costume for Athena, 3 free stages, and free color palettes for each character.
 * 11) The Burn to Fight Premium Edition (Collector's Edition) includes a steelbook case for the game, a 144p art book, and a 3-disc soundtrack.
 * 12) This is the first canon King of Fighters game to feature Rock Howard as a playable fighter (since B.Jenet and Hotaru in KOF XI).
 * 13) Whip, Yamazaki, Vanessa, Oswald, Heidern and Blue Mary also returns into this game as DLC.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The in-game graphics at launch look mediocre, on par with a PS3 game.
 * 2) The online multiplayer had issues at launch.
 * 3) The girls of the same game are re-used in SNK Heroines as a "canon" to the series.
 * 4) The gameplay didn't added nothing new to the series and the 2D fighting genre as well since the EX move mechanic was already included on games like Street Fighter III and KOF XIII.
 * 5) Ridiculous AI. From being easy for KOF standards, it turned into an AI who defends too much, he is unforgivable when it comes to counterattacks and on top of that there are times when it can't act properly against certain situations like throwing a projectile (similar to KOF XI AI).
 * 6) Awful final boss. Again, SNK boss syndrome strikes back with Verse having too much damage in their attacks and a high defense, he can easily make you a comeback even if you manage to drain about 80% of his health bar due to his combos.
 * 7) Unbalanced gameplay. The biggest issue here is the fact that several characters missed moves while some others like King and Luong had only three moves.
 * 8) To add insult to injury, several moves, DM/SDM and Climax moves were poorly recycled from KOF XIII and other KOF games as well with less hits and animation details (probably because the game had a novice development team) and some others can only be made on MAX Mode when they can actually be made by default with just pressing one alternate button on previous installments like the Double Venom Strike of King.

Reception
The game received positive reviews from gamers and critics alike due to its great fighting mechanics and variety of characters. Some fighting games fans claimed that this game is what Street Fighter V should of been. A YouTuber, Maximilian Dood, reviewed this game saying that he would recommend the game to someone who was disappointed with Street Fighter V.