Oh great moderators, enlighten my mind[]
Could the enlightened moderators explain to me that if this game is canon, how did Geese and Krauser revive out of nowhere, and how does Garou act as if Geese's death had been in the first Real Bout?
Obviously, the question is rhetorical; there's no way this game can be canon no matter where you look; the game has no storyline other than the endings, and the story in the manual is impossible since Geese should be dead at that point. The final battle with Geese or Krauser is impossible at this point. The game is clearly just a dream match—nothing more, nothing less.
The misinformation here is to interpret Yasuyuki Oda's statement so literally. Indeed, Fatal Fury Special and the original Real Bout Special aren't canon because they are mere dream matches, but that doesn't mean that everything that isn't called Special is canon, or we would have serious retcon problems with Fatal Fury Wild Ambition.
City of the Wolves being the seventh chapter is correct, but that's because Dominated Mind is the fifth chapter and not Real Bout 2. Dominated Mind has an entire storyline; RB2 just served as a preview, with Alfred as a hidden opponent. Ah, yes, Dominated Mind has "Special" in the name because 90% of the game is a port of Real Bout Special, but its new contents are clearly canon. I mean... It ACTUALLY has a plot.
No, I don't expect this to be fixed because I know people in charge have a history of being stubborn when someone tries to fix some wrong information (just see the history of the Team Rival page. No matter how many times people asked for sources, mods would just undo the edit and refuse to elaborate). I'm just leaving this text because, yes, if someone came here to question this information, yes, it's wrong. Yes, Real Bout 2 is a dream match without a story; you didn't play the wrong game, and your memory isn't playing tricks on you. No, they won't let you fix the page, so don't even try to edit.KingMisora (talk) 03:28, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
I second this[]
As KingMisora said, it seems unlikely for Real Bout Fatal Fury 2 to happen. At first I assume that by canon, they mean "this is the game Wolfgang Krauser committed suicide shortly after, but his page states otherwise where it was in Fatal Fury 2. Plus, it still doesn't explain why you get to fight Geese again as a boss fight. It seems dead set that (at minimum) Fatal Fury, Fatal Fury 2, Fatal Fury 3, Real Bout Fatal Fury, Garou: Mark of the Wolves and Fatal Fury: City of Wolves, are canon. Granted, I don't know where it was stated that Real Bout Fatal Fury Special: Dominated Mind is canon. But it seems more likely, since; so far, it hasn't contradicted anything. Though we need proper confirmation to have that be considered canon first. Otherwise, I agree with what KingMisora has stated. HansGonk (talk) 19:24, 24 September 2024 UTC