SNK really said let's give our fighting game characters therapy sessions and then make them fight anyway. THE KING OF FIGHTERS '96 DRAMA CD opens with Kyo getting wrecked and builds from there, mixing voice performances with musical cues that hit way harder than you'd expect.
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"Leona - Reasons to Fight" gives one of the series' most stoic characters actual emotional weight. Then "Yagami - Rampage of Cursed Blood" goes absolutely feral. The Choi Bounge melancholy track is kind of hilarious in context because it's Choi.
The finale with Kusanagi's Last Divine Punch brings all that buildup crashing together. Wild that these existed alongside the arcade releases. If you're a KOF lore person who wants to hear Kyo and Iori's rivalry with actual voice acting, start here.