Vermillion Cinders

Vermillion Cinders is a new game by SNK, it's a spinoff of the King of Fighters franchise, focusing on Ash Crimson. It can be considered a prequel to The King of Fighters 2003.

Gameplay

Vermillion Cinders plays like a mix between a 2D fighting game and an arena fighter, similar to Smash Bros. The series features 3D modelled characters and entirely destructible backgrounds but the gameplay is in 2D.

Playable characters

The game plays in tag team form, the player picks 2 characters and they can change character in every round.

Fire Water Air Erin.
 * Ash Crimson. An eccentric French young man from the KOF series.
 * Camil. A Western-styled womanizer with the power of creating forms made of fire.
 * Eliza. A determined Latin American girl that can direct heat
 * Shane. An odd-looking member of a mob that fights with the aid of an extendable hook.
 * Yumi. A frail Japanese girl that creates ice flowers. He's partners with Tsubasa.
 * Tsubasa. A serious man that's captain of an airship. He's able to move gracefully creating air currents. He's partners with Yumi.

Earth

Hiruk. A hulking member of the Chinese military that fights with Sambo techniques.

Life bar

Characters have a lifebar. When it's completely depleted, the player loses the match.

Super gauge. Builds when receiving damage or performing special moves. Holds up 3 super stocks at the time.

Special moves

Every character has special moves of a certain element: Earth, Water, Fire and Air. Each element has special advantages or weaknesses against the others, but it also depends on each character in some special cases. Every character has around 3 special moves and around 2 physical moves not tied to any element.

Supermoves

Every character has 2 supermoves, one of them is physical and the second one is physical and elemental at once.

Stages

There are seven stages: Each stage is destructible and modifiable by the element attacks of the characters. For example, water powers will be boosted in the beach stage, and in the waterfall stage fire attacks might be extinguished by water jet.
 * Jungle
 * Desert/Beach
 * Waterfall
 * Volcano
 * Prairie
 * City
 * Final Stage

Some supermoves can alter elements of the stage, for example Eliza's Fire Beam super can turn sand into a mirror in the Desert stage, Hiruk can use his Long Cannonball super to excavate an oasis.

Some changes in the stage are permanent (until next fight) but some others are reversible.

Stages are large and feature many obstacles, so there's an automatic zoom-in and zoom-out camera features.

Ibura

Each character has a special move called "Ibura" that's activated by pressing R1 plus a direction in the D-Pad. It's usually used to counter projectiles. Depending on the element of the character and the opponent, the projectile might be blocked, nullified, reflected or deflected. Special projectiles can also disintegrate, change its projectiles or blow into fragments that also might alter the stage.

* El subjefe Tunnder tiene la habilidad de cambiar el clima creando efectos que ning�n otro personaje puede; puede tener cualquiera de los otros personajes como acompa�ante y usarlo s�lo como strike. El jefe final, Kan, tiene poderes de todos los elementos, y combate solo. Ninguno de ellos es seleccionable. Tunnder puede pelear en cualquier escenario; Kan siempre en el de Volcano.

* El juego tiene un solo final cuando se selecciona al azar. Si eliges parejas predeterminadas, accedes a uno de los seis finales especiales. Ash viene emparejado con Heiji, pero si terminas el juego con Ash y Camil, obtienes un final especial m�s.