Fenrir's Binding: The Queen and The Barbarian

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This page is meant to provide those unfamiliar with either title with some background information for both series.

KILLER INSTINCT

"Killer Instinct" is a fighting game series that had been developed by Rare Limited, also known as Rare or Rareware, a UK-based studio who created a number of well-received titles such as "Donkey Kong Country", "Banjo-Kazooey", "GoldenEye 007", "Perfect Dark" and "Conker's Bad Fur Day", among countless others. 

Created in 1994, "Killer Instinct" took its cues from the likes of "Street Fighter 2" and "Mortal Kombat" but had made its own distinct mark on the fighting game genre with its pre-rendered graphic style and FMVs (Full Motion Videos), which were considered revolutionary for the time. Combined with its dark presentation, its memorable cast of characters, a rich soundtrack, sound system and a bombastic announcer along with its unique gameplay and fast-paced combat, KI was one of the very few games in the genre to be able to stand out from its numerous peers.

In terms of the game's story, I'll let the game's manual speak for itself:

"Prologue: 

A wind-swept battlefield of the distant past, littered with the debris of war.

Above the moans and cries of the defeated can still be heard the clashing sounds of a single titanic confrontation. Two great warlords, leaders of their now smashed armies, are locked in battle, with the world itself as the prize. 

But this epic battle is not to have a conclusion. 

Suddenly, the warlords were engulfed in a nimbus of light, and vanished from the face of the earth, banished to the realm of Limbo. 

The battle-weary heroes whose spell had trapped the warlords heaved a sigh of relief. 

Armageddon had been averted, for now.

The Future: 

The world has seen much progress in the centuries since the warlords were banished, not all of it for good. 

Pollution has weakened the environment. 

Governments have fallen. 

Chaos rules, with huge mega-corporations battling and destroying each other for shares of the world's wealth.

In this bleak world, a single corporation, Ultratech, rises above the others. 

Rather than joining in direct battles with their competitors, Ultratech has profited from their suffering by selling them the very weapons they use against each other. 

Sales of weaponry are not the only source of profit for Ultratech, however. Their entertainment division produces the top rated television broadcast of the future, the Killer Instinct tournament, which also serves as a testing ground for Ultratech's weapons. 

The winners of the tournament are promised whatever they desire. 

The losers suffer a significantly poorer fate.

It is into this bloody contest that our heroes have been drawn. T. J. Combo, disgraced heavyweight champion of the world who seeks redemption. Glacius, a captured alien fighting for his life and a chance to escape. And the deadly robot Fulgore, programmed by Ultratech with a Killer Instinct and the freedom to use it. Each fights for his or her own reasons, but each has the same goal: win the tournament and destroy all opponents.

It will take more than radical moves and deadly special attacks to win this tournament. It will take a will, a desire; it will take a Killer Instinct."

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