How Many Guest Characters Is Too Many? Tokyo Revengers X City of the Wolves Collaboration Sparks Fighting Game Debate
The fighting game community is debating whether Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves has too many guest characters. SNK announced two Tokyo Revengers characters—Manjiro “Mikey” Sano and Ken “Draken” Ryuguji—joining the roster on September 9. These popular shonen anime protagonists represent the latest additions to an already extensive lineup of guest characters, which includes Chun-Li and Ken from Street Fighter, professional footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, electronic music artist Salvatore Ganacci, and Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star. The diverse array of guest collaborations has sparked discussion within the fighting game community about character selection strategies and the balance between introducing new properties and focusing on a game’s original roster. City of the Wolves marks SNK’s first new entry in the Fatal Fury franchise in over two decades, making the character roster strategy and approach to guest characters a particularly notable aspect of its launch and ongoing content roadmap.