Director Kaito Soranaka said during an interview that Kula was his favorite character in the game. In SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy, Kula appears wearing Ángel's skimpy clothing. An extra outfit for Kula was released for The King of Fighters XIV as downloadable content. Ando further believed Kula could wield other type of weapons based on the variety used by the cast but in the end felt using blades could prove to be more challenging. Kula was the first character in KOF XIV to be given this type of design, requiring multiple attempts to work with her 3D character model. A programmer with the alias of "Ando" designed the blades on Kula's boots during special attacks.
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The designs looked like those in an anime series so the designers opted for the current look. When developing The King of Fighters XIV with the Unreal Engine, the original game had more realistic visuals but they clashed with character designs of Kula and Athena Asamiya. This technique went through numerous trials before it was added to the game. Kula's strongest technique in the game involves the appearance of Foxy and Diana who attack the enemy alongside her. Kula's "Diamond Breath" move was recommended for new players, while the "Reispin" was designed to make the gameplay more complex and challenging as Kula becomes stronger when executing it. A move that exemplifies this was the "Crow Bites". Similar to K' 's moves, the developers wanted Kula's trademarks, most notably her ice moves, to be appealing to see. The team had no problems in designing her gameplay and added taunts where the character becomes boring. įor The King of Fighters XIII, the staff decided to make Kula similar to her original incarnation in The King of Fighters 2000. Falcoon also once envisioned an adult version of Kula for the game Kimi wa Hero. Her alternative costume is that of a coquettish ice skater. In KOF: Maximum Impact 2, Falcoon gave her a color palette that makes her look like fighter Ash Crimson as well as the robot Candy. Yumi Kakazu has voiced Kula in all of her appearances. Nevertheless, he claims he grew attached to drawing her alongside K'. According to artist Hiroaki, Kula does not look like a 14 year old girl in the illustrations. She didn't give me any pain." Despite being K''s foil, Kula's was designed to closely resemble her rival as both fighters wear similar leather outfits with contrasting colors. The unnamed character designer was pleased with Kula's design saying: "Kula had an easy delivery. Newly hired female staff designed her to depict a "14-year-old girl" with "appropriately girlish" gestures. She was to add excitement to the story as an enemy and a foil of K'. Her character added another dimension to the villainous NESTS organization in the NESTS Chronicles. SNK created Kula Diamond to bring more complexity to the NESTS' story arc in the series. Critics were divided over her beauty and her skimpy designs in SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy.Īlthough Kula has been given different outfits in some games, for Kimi wa Hero she was redesigned as an adult. However, the character's attractiveness also earned a mixed reaction. Subsequently, journalists and video game reviewers have been largely positive about Kula liking her fighting style, mostly for her use of ice, as well as her contrast with K'. Yumi Kakazu has voiced Kula in all of her appearances, while Kat Cassteneda provides her English voice in the spin-off game KOF: Maximum Impact 2.Īt first the character got a mixed reception as comparisons were made between her and earlier SNK fighters. Designed carefully to appeal to female players, SNK was satisfied with her physical appearance. Kula was created to add more characters to the NESTS syndicate and to add more depth to the series' second story arc. She is also present in a number of spin-off games in the franchise, most notably SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy as well as Akihiko Ureshino's novelizations of the games and comic books from China. In following titles she lives with K' under the care of the cyborg Maxima. However, during NESTS' destruction, Kula forms a bond with K' and his allies to the point of joining his team. Originally a member of the organization NESTS, Kula is the result of an experiment to kill the rebellious K', earning the title of "Anti-K'" ( アンチK', Anchi-Kei Dasshu). She first appears as the sub-boss and playable character in The King of Fighters 2000 she enters as a normal participant in her other appearances. Kula Diamond ( Japanese: クーラ・ダイアモンド, Hepburn: Kūra Daiamondo) is a fictional character from SNK's fighting game franchise The King of Fighters.