Nothing about his plans or monologuing are in any way unique. There’s nothing that stands out about him other than being all evil-looking and cheap. If there was ever a cookie-cutter SNK boss, it’s this guy. Original Zero is less interesting than the clone, even if he does have a pet lion.īono was right. I could have gone my whole life without having to see Zero again, thank you very much. Because, you see, the one that died in 2000 was a clone and this is just a boring-ass subboss who is supposed to be superior. A year later, the penultimate boss is Zero again, only he has a different stance, more strikers, no mustache, and white hair. Not the worst, but certainly not the best. So King of Fighters 2000 introduces and kills off Zero, a mustachioed traitor to NESTS who makes for an average boss fight. Ron is nothing but a dud and Lin is right there with him. The most he gets is showing up in a jokey daydream sequence from Kensou in one of the endings.
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Still, they spend a couple years having him show up to hype up a post-NESTS storyline about some kind of Dragon Spirit. Instead of fighting him during the NESTS storyline, he only appears briefly as an assist.
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SNK and later Eolith spend all this time building Ron up as this huge menace that the heroes will have to fight down the line. Lin is introduced as a way to herald Ron, who is Lin’s evil and more powerful counterpart. Part of his ranking as dead last is guilt by association.
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I’m less in awe about how ninja rad he is and instead feel…strangely queasy? Even though there’s originality in Lin’s attacks, they aren’t especially good.