Edge 113 - King of Fighters EX [S2E9]

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Edge was doing it like no one else in 2002, and so we had to go longer than we ever have to talk about all of it!

Before we review Edge magazine’s eyebrow-raising review of King of Fighters EX for the Game Boy Advance, we looked through all 130 pages of neutron-star-dense levels of thoughtful editorial—perhaps most notably so, an interview with Tecmo director Tomonobu Itagaki about pet project, Dead or Alive 3: Xtreme Beach Volleyball. 

Edge rightfully presses Itagaki on why he didn’t include any of the male characters, how much care and consideration was given to volleyball game mechanics, how it compares to other volleyball games, etc., and Itagaki just keeps artfully rephrasing the same admission: he just really wanted to make a boobie game to look at boobies.

We also brought back our Letters section, answering questions from our awesome Discord members! GET ON THE DISCORD so you can join in next time!

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