Freia Lawrence

Freia Lawrence Despite not being playable, Freia plays a central part in the story of Art of Fighting 3. She's a young blond girl who has the unfortunate burden of being the daughter of a mad scientist.

The first two games did pretty well at the arcades, but weren't exactly major hits. Perhaps because of this, SNK decided to completely reinvent the series with this installment. A few things stayed the same though. Desperation moves, taunting, back dashing, dashing, and the ki meter are all still present. All the actions that were possible in AoF 2 have been retained, but the ability to perform stronger punches and kicks by holding a button down has been ditched. Instead, it has been replaced with the system from the first Art of Fighting, where you execute strong attacks by pushing C with the move being a kick or punch depending on which of the two you most recently performed. What changes were made are what makes AoF 3 completely different from the rest of the series, and pretty different from any other 2D fighter.