The fighting game community is in the middle of a fierce debate over the amount of guest characters coming to Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves.
On September 9, SNK announced two more guest characters coming to City of the Wolves: Manjiro "Mikey" Sano and Ken "Draken" Ryuguji from Tokyo Revengers. These popular shonen anime protagonists mark the latest in a string of guest characters for the game, which include Chun-Li and Ken from Street Fighter, pro footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, music artist Salvatore Ganacci, and Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star.
That’s a lot of guest characters for a game that’s only a little more than a year old — and while Ken and Chun-Li make sense given Capcom and SNK’s wealth of crossovers over the years, five guest characters from totally unrelated franchises feels a bit excessive to some players (myself included).
There’s a trend sweeping through popular fighting games lately where non-fighting game characters are being included in major titles like Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8, and of course, City of the Wolves. For example, Final Fantasy 7’s Tifa Lockhart is coming to Street Fighter 6 next year, while Baki’s Yujiro Hanma is set to make a splash in Tekken 8 in 2027.
While these one-off characters aren’t ruffling too many feathers within the fighting game community (Tekken is a franchise known for including one or two oddball guests), the sheer amount of guest characters in CotW is raising eyebrows — especially given the fact that they don’t come from other fighting games.
“Lmfaoo, adding anything bruh. Kenshiro was dope, but what the f**k is this,” one player wrote on X.
“Funniest fighting game roster of all time bro,” another said.
“Love these two, but how did they get in over Baki, or hell, even Tokita Ohma?” another asked, referencing popular martial arts anime Kengan Ashura (which, funnily enough, celebrated a collaboration with Street Fighter 6 not long ago).
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