King of Fighters XIII: Collection of Translations

[FrostBurnDarkness]

Decided to take up story translating again, here's more of the AOF team up to the second set of diamonds. I'll probably finish the rest of it tomorrow. No guarantees.

Yuri utters in anger and she stirs her ice coffee around with her straw.
Yuri: Good Grief! Are all the men of the Sakazaki dojo so snobbish!? Big Brother talking about "Cutting your hair off. Hmmph!"
He doesn't think it matches my style. Father's reaction, I can understand. At least you Robert thinks it is good.

Robert: So-so

After practice was done for the day, Yuri and Robert had come to the Open Cafe where the view of the hills were lovely. Yuri left the house to go shopping but instead, she and Robert went there.

Robert: Our master, is such a demon of karate says one of the children, well actually the child's parent said that. You should show a little respect, Yuri-chan.

Yuri: Eh? Wait? What?

Robert: Well, they will always be your family like it or not and you can't change that. I even told Ryo.

Robert takes a sniff of his cappuccino cup. Maybe Ryo is in the gym, and Robert right now seems enthusiastic on trying to understand Yuri.

Robert: But, maybe our master's true intention is for you to give up karate, Yuri-chan?

Yuri: Eh? Me give up karate?

Robert: I know how bold you are in your confidence with your karate level. Originally, didn't you study karate for self-defense, Yuri? I mean you've exceeded the levels of self-defense and want to show your natural power in the tournament, Yuri-chan. But aren't you getting carried away?

Robert points everything out to Yuri.  Yuri certainly started karate as an art of self-defense. She is aware of "King of fighters" as being professional to regular fighters. But not only is it a front of defending herself with karate but she is willing to fight, which is a mistake. 

Ryo: HEY!

Yuri hears a familiar voice that sounds like her brother. At the bottom of the stairs was Ryo waving his arms.

Ryo: Let's go home Yuri!

Yuri: Big Brother.

(end page 1)

Robert: Get in the car. I think it's better if you go home in my lovely on than Ryo's ragedy motorcycle which handles like shit.

Robert smiles as Yuri while sipping his cappuccino.

[Yuki Yagami]

K' Team Gameplay translation by SonicTempest @ ON

俺一人で十分だ！It's the K' team.

- First off, they open up the last character blog entry by stating that there's a lot of stuff they haven't talked about, like special animations for certain moves that only activate a small percentage of the time, taunts and...Mature and Vice's underwear. Uh, right.

K'
- They designed K' so that he wouldn't feel too weird to use. They reluctantly left out his instant Narrow Spike ( qcb + B or D immediately after qcb + B or D ) because they felt it was a little too powerful.
- He's a character who's most powerful at long- and mid-range. He plays pretty similarly to his previous versions so K' fans should have no trouble picking him up.
- They made sure to make his flames have a different, more violent appearance than Kyo's.
- EX Crow Bites ( dp + AC ) is basically his KOF2003/XI Heaven's Drive DM, and it can be used for similar things like interrupting block strings and combos.
- EX Chain Drive ( qcf,hcb + AC ) has a really cool animation.
- His NeoMAX is 'Hyper Chain Drive' ( hcb x2 + AC ), where he creates a giant flame pillar around himself. Good to use for anti-air or combos - feels particularly good to MAX Cancel into it from Heat Drive ( qcf x2 + A or C ).
- K' has had a bunch of endings where he removes his red glove at the end of the game, so they wanted to have a move that had his glove as the focal point. They had tons of ideas like having a move that would have his right hand continue to burn after a heat drive and make all his flame moves more powerful, or a move that they saw in the HK comics where K' lands from the air and punches the ground, causing cracks to appear in his glove, and so on. If you K.O. someone with his NeoMAX you'll be able to see his glove shatter after he does the move.
- The whole K' team has a ton of effects on their moves so it caused a lot of problems during development. K' in particular was a problem, with his Chain Drive animation being something they fussed over a lot. K' was originally supposed to fight without his sunglasses on like before, but when they were designing his moves, they heard from the original designer of K' from KOF'99 that the original Chain Drive move didn't match its source material very well (which was a certain movie). Because of this they had to go back and redesign the move, and because of this they ended up adding sunglasses to K's sprite. Apparently even the animation where the sunglasses rebound off the opponent was a picky point for them.
- Apparently K' has a color scheme that they haven't shown off yet, too.

MAXIMA
- Unlike K' and Kula, Maxima has changed a fair bit in this instalment. Because there were a bunch of other grapplers in the game they decided to make Maxima into a character that uses his autoguard to bulldoze the opponent into submission. This is also why his animations and effects look more mecha-like.
- They made Douple Vapor Cannon ( qcf x2 + A or C ) a juggle anywhere move ONLY when it's super cancelled from Vapor Cannon ( qcb + A or C ) because of how good it looked (lol).
- He's supposed to be the foremost power character in the game, with relatively few combos but very satisfying single hits.
- EX Blitz Cannon ( dp + BD ) has autoguard from startup and will continue to execute if someone tries to hit him during the autoguard frames. Also unlike the regular version, there's a hitbox on his knee, so this will connect against grounded opponents as well.
- EX mid-air Vapor Cannon ( qcb + AC in mid-air) preserves Maxima's jump trajectory and does 3 hits. If you manage to land it just before Maxima lands you have enough frame advantage to throw out another attack.
- His NeoMAX is 'Maxima Laser' ( hcb + AC ). It goes full screen, is pretty much impossible to jump over and will do a fair amount of tick damage even if it's blocked. It's the ultimate move to stop the opponent in his tracks.
- Apparently the effects on his laser were so large that the programmers had trouble dealing with it (rofl).
- They purposely tried to make him look more 'high-tech' - even his face was redrawn to look like the cranium of an android from various science fiction sources. He was the character whose sprites gave the artists the most headaches.

KULA
- Kula is pretty close to her previous versions - even the designer who worked on her is the same one who originally drew her back in KOF2000.
- They added a lot of little details to her sprite like her flexing her fingers, yawning, blinking and so on.
- EX Diamond Breath ( qcf + AC ) puts the opponent in an extended stun animation during which Kula can do followup attacks (how is this any different from the C version?)
- EX Lay Spin ( qcb + BD ) has invincibility all the way up until the attack comes out, making it a good move to use to avoid an opponent's attack and smack them one.
- Her NeoMAX is 'Neo Freeze Execution' ( hcb x2 +BD ). It's used the same way as her regular Freeze Execution but Foxy and Diana come out during the attack. Apparently the butterfly and bee effects that appear in the move were drawn by Yamaguchi himself.
- They wanted the move to have the appearance of an aurora, which is why it's so colourful.

[PureYeti]

7 days...(Art of Fighting Team):

Takuma: hmhmhm... Only 7 days left till the tournament, huh? Even I'm starting to get a little nervous. It's been a long time since I've participated! HAAAHH!!

Robert: Hey Ryo, is the Master going to be like this till the tournament? He looks awfully excited for his age, huh? I won't pay any attention to him even if he gets beat with the truth.

Ryo: I'm telling you, don't worry about it. Nothing is going to happen if he gets beat up. We just have to fight like if we were each two fighters instead of one. Look, he even brought his Tengu mask.

6 days...(Kim Team):

Hwa Jai: Um... this... uh... I'm... Hwa Jai... L-Like an honorable fighter... I-I will t-try... to fight clean!

Raiden: No! Y-You imbecile! We will ALWAYS fight clean! Hey, Kim? Is it true that until the tournament starts, we're going to have to say all this bullshit again and again?

Kim: What are you two saying?! This is important for your rehabilitation as good people! Come on! Now look at the camera and say it again another 100 times!

Credit to YetiAntics and DarKaoZ at SRK