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Geese Howard (ギース・ハワード Gīsu Hawādo) is a fictional video game character appearing in SNK Playmore's Fatal Fury fighting games series. Debuting in Fatal Fury: King of Fighters, Geese is the local crime boss of the fictional city of South Town. Geese hosts a fighting tournament named "The King of Fighters", in which he faces the brothers Terry and Andy Bogard who want to take revenge for their father's death. After several tournaments, Geese is killed by Terry, but he appears in following games without storyline as a "ghost" named Nightmare Geese (ナイトメア・ギース Naitomea Gīsu). Geese has also appeared in several The King of Fighters games, in which he seeks to get the power from the creature Orochi, while his young self makes an appearance in the second Art of Fighting game as the hidden boss character. Geese also made appearance in other adaptations from the video games, including animated films and manwhua. Geese has received mixed reviews by video games publications. Most of them have noted him to be one of the most notable bosses characters from SNK, commenting on how hard it is to defeat him in the Fatal Fury games. Geese has additionally been well-received by gamers, appearing in some popularity polls developed by video games journals.
[edit] Character designIn the Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters, Geese appears as a middle-aged man with blond short, slicked hair, wearing a aikidogi with red hakama and white uwagi without sandals.[1] In most games of the Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters series - except Fatal Fury: King of Fighters and The King of Fighters '96 - Geese only wears the red hakama pants with the white uwagi either not present or hanging off the back/sides.[2] Dominated Minds, the PlayStation version of Real Bout Special, features Geese sporting a halo over his head as a reference to his passing. The appearance of Geese in the Art of Fighting series was of a younger man with long blond hair wearing a light purple and blue suit with red necktie.[3] [edit] TechniquesGeese's special techniques as a computer-only character in the original Fatal Fury includes the Wind Slice (烈風拳 Reppūken、literally "powerful wind fist"), an energy wave which travels over the ground similar to Terry's Power Wave, and the Knockdown Blow (当て身投げ Ateminage), in which Geese guards against a close-range attack from an opponent and then throws the opponent. In Fatal Fury Special, he gains the Double Wind Slice (ダブル疾風拳 Daburu Reppūken), a larger version of the regular Wind Slice, and the Gale Slash (疾風拳 Shippūken, literally "Hurricane Fist"), an aerial version of the Wind Slice done while Geese is jumping. He also gains a new hidden special move which he can perform when he is low on energy known as the Raging Storm (レイジングストーム Reijingu Sutōmu), in which Geese surrounds himself with a large energy wave. The young Geese from Art of Fighting 2 has a different set of techniques than his older self from the previously released Fatal Fury games at the time, with the Wind Slice being the only technique he shares with his older self. His two other special techniques is the Flying Sawblade Slicer (飛翔日輪斬 Hishō Nichirinzan), in which Geese jumps to the air and strikes with a hand slice, and the Explosion Ball (エクスプロージョンボール Ekusupurōjon Bōru), in which Geese strikes his opponent with a powerful back fist. His hidden special move in the game is the Deadly Rave (デッドリーレイブ Deddorī Reibu), which is Geese's counterpart to Ryo's Furious Fandango. In Fatal Fury 3, Geese has the same special techniques he previously had in Fatal Fury Special and gains the Mars Master (邪影拳 Jaeiken, literally "Evil Shadow Fist"), in which Geese rushes towards the opponent with an elbow strike. In Real Bout Fatal Fury, Geese uses the Deadly Rave super move from Art of Fighting 2, now altered to require additional control input from the player to properly execute, as well as a new super move called the Thunder Break (サンダーブレイク Sandā Bureiku), a more powerful version of the Raging Storm. In his appearance in The King of Fighters '96, Geese has the same set of special moves he has in Fatal Fury 3, with the only difference being the addition of the Sawblade Slicer from Art of Fighting 2. [edit] Appearances[edit] In video games Geese first appears in the original Fatal Fury, where he hosts the "King of Fighters" tournament. The central plot of the game centers around the Bogard Brothers' (Terry and Andy) quest to avenge their father's death, who was murdered by Geese a decade before the events of the game.[4] After the player defeats Geese (who is the final boss), Geese falls off from the building, being declared dead during the game's ending.[5] Geese does appear in the revised version of Fatal Fury 2, Fatal Fury Special, where it is revealed that he survived his fall at the end of the first game.[6] Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory centers around Geese's attempt to return to power by collecting the "Sacred Scrolls of Jin", which is said to give their holder great power.[7] In the next game, Real Bout Fatal Fury, Geese is once again the final boss in the single-player tournament, confronting the player atop Geese Tower. In either, Terry's or Andy's ending, Geese falls off his tower once again, refusing to accept help from either of the Bogard Brothers.[8] Geese appears in the subsequent game which does not feature plot, Real Bout Fatal Fury Special, as a hidden final boss named Nightmare Geese.[9] He also appears as a regular character in Real Bout Fatal Fury 2, which neither contain storyline.[10] Geese also makes an appearance in the second game in the Art of Fighting series. Art of Fighting 2, which is set a decade before the first Fatal Fury, features a younger Geese Howard as the corrupt police commissioner of Southtown. Geese is revealed to be Mr. Big's boss and the mastermind behind the events of the previous game such as the kidnapping from Yuri Sakazaki.[11] If the player wins every match against all the previous computer-controlled opponents without losing a round, the player's character will face Geese Howard as a hidden final boss.[12] In the crossover video games NeoGeo Battle Coliseum and SNK vs. Capcom series, Geese appears as a playable character; in the latter he commonly appears as a boss character.[13][14] Geese also appears in a few games in The King of Fighters series, which does not follow the continuity established by the Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting games, despite sharing many characters and plot elements. In The King of Fighters '96, Geese serves as the leader of the "Boss Team" along with former subordinate Mr. Big and rival Wolfgang Krauser, seeking to find the Orochi power.[15] Geese would appear again in a non-playable role as the sponsor of the "Special Team" in The King of Fighters '97, which is composed of Billy Kane, Blue Mary, and Ryuji Yamazaki.[16] The team would reappear in The King of Fighters 2003 renamed "Outlaw Team", with Mary (now part of the Women Fighters Team) replaced by Gato from Mark of the Wolves.[17] Geese also appears in The King of Fighters 2000 as a striker, in the Xbox version of The King of Fighters 2002 and The King of Fighters XI as a selectable character, as well as in The King of Fighter '98 Ultimate Match, which brings back the Boss Team from 96.[18][19][20] He is also a playable character in The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match, alongside his "Nightmare" variant.[21] The younger version of Geese from Art of Fighting 2 also appears as a boss in The King of Fighters Neowave.[22] In The King of Fighters Ex: Neo Blood Geese organizes a new tournament in order to obtain the power from the participant Iori Yagami. After Iori is defeated, Geese will act as a boss character.[23] In KOF: Maximum Impact 2 and Regulation A, Geese is playable under the name of Nightmare Geese.[24] [edit] In other mediaGeese Howard also appears in a trilogy of animated films based on the Fatal Fury video games, where his voice is provided by Hidekatsu Shibata in the original Japanese versions and Ward Perry in the English dubs. The first two installments, 1992's Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf and 1993's Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle, both aired in Japan as TV specials on Fuji TV, while the third film, 1994's Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture, was a theatrical film. The English adaptations of all three films were released on home video by Viz Communications. The first two films loosely follows the storyline of the games and both feature Geese as a major character, establishing him and Wolfgang Krauser as half-brothers who share the same father, a plot element which was used in the video game series with Fatal Fury Special.[25][26] Geese makes a cameo appearance in the third film.[27] In addition to appearing in manga adaptations of the Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting and The King of Fighters games published in Japan, Geese Howard was also the subject of a single-volume manga published in 1996 titled The Geese Howard Story by Etsuya Amajishi, adapting the character's fictional history from the Art of Fighting and Fatal Fury games.[28] It was followed by a single-volume sequel in 1997 titled Geese in the Dark, by the same author.[29] Geese also appears in many CD dramas and stars in his own character image album.[30] He also sings in a number of image songs.[31] [edit] ReceptionGeese has been well-received within gamers, ranking high in several popularity polls. In Gamest's 1997 Heroes Collection, Geese was voted as the staff's ninth favorite character.[32] In the character popularity poll on Neo Geo Freak's website, he was voted as the thirteenth favorite character with a total of 903 votes.[33] While interviewing Shane Bettenhausen, Ignition Entertainment's Director of Business Development, Alex Lucard from Diehardgamefan.com mentioned that one of the characters he wanted to be playable in The King of Fighters XII was Geese.[34] Video games publications have added praise and criticism on Geese's character. GameSpot reviewer Frank Provo comments that Geese's introduction in Fatal Fury is one of the biggest accomplishments from the game as he notes how Geese continues appearing in other games.[35] Avi Krebs from Gamingexcellence.com noted that Geese was the hardest character of the series to defeat and jokingly commented that even though he fights "while wearing a wristwatch, he pulls out all the tricks possible".[36] IGN writer Ryan Clements agreed with Avi Krebs saying that Geese is "almost physically impossible to beat". He also mentioned that due to how difficult Geese is, almost twelve different IGN people had to help Clements to win, being only able to defeat him "resorting to the cheapest, most absurd tactics possible".[37] ScrewAttack simply said that Geese "gets your ass beat right out of the window".[38] Eric Bratcher from GameRadar commented that Geese is "the big hook" from the series along with Terry Bogard, labelling Geese as "nearly un-killable".[39] While reviewing The King of Fighters Neowave Gamer 2.0's Patrick Mifflin found that Geese is the "first SNK true villain", and commented that his young appearance featured in such game "can surely be chalked up to being one of the perks of a fighting game that has no story at all".[40] [edit] References
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