Real Bout Garou Special

**Real Bout Garou Special** also knowed has RBGS or unnoficially Garou Special is a sort-of sequel of the Garou: Mark of the Wolves but mainly working has an update of the original game. It adds more characters, updates the sprites and moves of the old ones and makes some revisions to the gameplay. The game retakes some of the ideas of the cancelled sequel of the game.

## Characters

### Returning Characters

* **Rock Howard:** Now Rock learned the techniques Shippuken and Fire Kick from Geese and Terry respectively, now the S. Version of Raging Storm can be delayed meanwhile the P. Version is more akin to his version from the Maximum Impact series (also knowed has NEO Raging Storm).
* **Terry Bogard:** Terry recovers his Rising Tackle and uses Rising Beat has his other P. Power Super Move.
* **B. Jenet:** Now no longer requires a perfect parry to active her super.
* **Tizoc (Griffon):** Tizoc gains some moves based on his King of Dinosaurs persona.
* **Marco Rodrigues (Khushnood Butt):** His original name is used once again in international releases. His Light Ko-Ou Ken is now a short burst.
* **Hokotumaru**
* **Gato:** It has some nerfs to make it outright broken even if he stills being one of the bests characters in the game.
* **Hotaru Futaba**
* **Kim Dong Hwan**
* **Kim Jae Hoon**
* **Kevin Rian**
* **Freeman**
* **Grant:** Now he has a reworked moveset to be tournament legal.
* **Kain:** Now he has a reworked moveset to be tournament legal.

### New Characters

* **Andy Bogard**
* **Mai Shiranui:** Mai finally archived her most wanted objective, marry Andy; even if both of them aren't in bad terms Mai its preocupated that after a pair of years her husband always looks bored, worried that he wants the divorce Mai suscribes both of them to the Maximum Mayhem tournament to revive the flames of the love in the battle.
* **Blue Mary**
* **Alfred Airhawk**
* **Mr. Karate II:** Ryo Sakazaki returns to South Town after knowing about the recents events of Maximum Mayhem. He uses a similar movelist that his NGBC incarnation but with extra moves from his father's persona and the removal of his Buriki One's style Ryuuko Ranbu.
* **Kasumi Todoh:** Kasumi mastered the Todoh-ryu Aikijutsu becoming the leader of his family. She goes to South Town after the rumours about the return of Ryo Sakazaki to the city, wanting to have another fight with him to known who of the two family styles is superior once and for all.
* **Alice Garnet Nakata:** A girl who considers herself the #1 Terry's fan and trying to have his attention she manage to create a fighting style based on his own with some moves taken from other persons that she admires like Andy Bogard or Joe Higashi. She was a one-sided friendly rivality with Rock who she dismiss has other Terry's fan.
* **Ichika Amano:** She was Joe Higashi's student, Joe was also training himself to participate in the next Maximum Mayhem tournament but after a fight with his brother-in-law Billy Kane he was severly injured, after begging her she accepts to take his place in the tourney.
* **Ludwig Krauser:** The son of the deceased Wolfgang Krauser, he wants revenge of Terry Bogard after find out that it was (indirectly) his fault that his father is death. He unlike Alice has a more serious rivality with Rock has both their fathers where also rivals, even if Rock doesn't think he needs to walk in the same steps of his father Ludwig always tries to fight him. He works has the "fake" villain of the game.
* **Black:** Someone who tries to imitate the villain White. He is the final boss of the game. Apart of White his style it also takes inspiration of Oswald from The King of Fighters and, surprisly enough, Hazama from the BlazBlue series.
* **Nightmare Geese:** The hidden boss of the game, he manifested himself after Rock lost control of his evil blood. Canonically he only appeared in the mind of Rock has a materialization of his evil side that he needs to defeat once and for all.

### Characters added in the Console Ports

* **Kim Kapwhan:** Kim wants to see how much their childs growed has fighters joining to the new Maximum Mayhem tournament without their knowlodedge, his fighting style resembles his CVS incarnation with stances for making him different of his sons.
* **Billy Kane:** After Geese's decease Bily abandoned the criminal life dedicating all his time to take care of her sister. One day he required to ho outside the city since he knew that some of the old enemies of Geese are now going for his head and he doesn't wanted to give problmes to Lily. After he resolved his problems when he returned after a year he was shocked to see that Joe was now Lily's husband and that she is pregnant, he was very angry to the point that he break his arms. Lily cried for make him stop making Billy confused if he was doing the right things, he escaped and for try to recomponse his mind he joined to the new tournament.
* **Ryuji Yamazaki:** Ryuji stills being a mercenary and gangster of South Town, he wasn't interesed in the tournament but someone pay him to do so, later is confirmed that this person was Mr. Big who is trying to take once again the title of the majo crimelord in the city.
* **Robert García:** After a series of sabotages in the García Foundation that mades him loses almost half of his company he decides to join into the Maximum Mayhem tournament in South Town after the private investigators he contracted telled him that the people who hijacked his company was also the host of the tournament.
* **Yuri Sakazaki:** Yuri was retired of fighting, but after the struggles of his husband's company and her boredom of the comfortable life she decided to join to the tournament alongside Robert.
* **Lee Pai Long II:** The disciple and grandson of Lee Pai Long. He replicates the style of his grandfather adding more agressive techniques like the use of claws in his boots. He also became friend of Ryo Sakazaki and Yuri Sakazaki after the former heritage the role of the master of the Kyokugenryu Dojo. Much like how Takuma and the original Lei Pai Long also shared a friendship (even if isn't has strong than they).
* **Anastasia:** A russian-american woman who works has a mercenary using her self-taught assassination techniques, her moveset is more or less based on Leona Heidern from The King of Fighters.

## Mechanic Revisions

* General balance to all the returning cast (most notorious making Kain and Grant more balanced to be considered tournament legal).
* Button layout changed to the more traditional LP/HP/LK/HK used in the KOF franchise.
* T.O.P. system improvements, now when T.O.P. is active you can brake moves without the needing of press LP+LK and instead just tapping any button during the execution of the move. The bonifications of the T.O.P. system between how much life its used was changed to a minimum of x0.50 (third part of life) to x2.00 (a sixth part of the life meter).
* Now the stages have edges where you can fall, automatically losting the battle alongside breakable walls. You can turn off these mechanics in the configuration of the game.
	+ This also mean that the specials defeat from previous Fatal Fury games are back too.
* The H.Power Level meter is back, reasonable since its necessary for the Break Shot mechanic.
* Break Shots are back too, this is a combo-breaker like mechanic that works alongisde the already existing Just Defense allowing the player to guard cancel a move.