We’ve by no means actually forgiven Tremendous Avenue Fighter II Turbo and King of Fighters XV’s newest DLC fighter, Omega Rugal, has reopened that wound.

As a result of, after getting our bottoms kicked by Akuma, SSF2T’s hidden fighter, we had been actually trying ahead to taking part in as him utilizing the key code. Who wouldn’t need to hurl two fireballs inside seconds of one another, wiping the ground with the opposite cpu-controlled foes.

Sadly, we didn’t get our want. We found that the Akuma we had been allowed to play was a powered-down model of Shin Akuma, the character we’d fought towards. No double fireballs for us. Sure, we had been bitter and sure, we nonetheless are. However King of Fighters XV’s newest free DLC neatly sidesteps any of that nerfing and, as an alternative, provides us Omega Rugal, who’s as highly effective as he ever was.

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Like Akuma, Rugal used to come back in two flavours; common Rugal, who you can play as and the insanely highly effective Omega or God Rugal who you’d combat towards in secret matches,. or as a boss character, as seen in a couple of KOF video games. Sometimes, you can solely play as Omega Rugal by means of hacks however SNK have simply handed him over, without cost.

There’s additionally a Boss Rush Mode which helps you to combat towards a CPU-controlled Omega Rugal and extra. Usually, we’d give SNK a pat on the again for releasing Omega Rugal without cost however, as reported by The Verge, the corporate has undergone a questionable change in possession.

Omega Rugal is obtainable proper now, that means that the sport will obtain a complete of 13 (principally paid) DLC characters. You possibly can take a look at our King of Fighters XV evaluation right here.