Guest characters are pretty much expected in fighting games these days. Mortal Kombat 1 has added the likes of Conan the Barbarian and the T-1000, while Tekken 8 recently added Clive from Final Fantasy 16. Even fighting games that don't normally do guest characters have been jumping on the bandwagon, with Street Fighter 6's inclusion of Terry and Mai from Fatal Fury, and Guilty Gear Strive's addition of Lucy from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.
Whether you like them or not, they're all thematically relevant at the very least, easily fitting into the aesthetic of their games. You can't really say the same for Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves though, as SNK recently confirmed rumors that Portuguese football legend Cristiano Ronaldo is being added as the game's first guest character.
SNK revealed Ronaldo's inclusion in the game via a new trailer uploaded to its official YouTube channel earlier today, in which we see a bit of gameplay. We can see that Ronaldo has a mixture of close up and ranged attacks, using a football to hit a probably very confused Terry Bogard from a distance.
We sat down with Yasuyuki Oda at Tokyo Game Show to discuss all things Fatal...
