In the Nintendo 64 & Rare Replay port of Killer Instinct 2 (KI Gold), there was an old man to guide the player in the Training Mode part of the game:
Is there any background story on him?
Not that Iām aware of. Heās simply there just to show you the ropes.
I found a scan of the gameās N64 manual and his name is āThe Masterā.
Kind of a downer but whatever.
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āPAHSS. FAYYELLL.ā Clap Clap
Itās Kim Wu ancestor who morphs into practice characters
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THE NOSTALGIA IS REAL. BTW, how is KI Gold on Rare Replay? Is it worth picking? I could care less about the other games, but I do / did love me some KI Gold back in tha day.
Itās a faithful replica, although I have found a few crazy bugs - I donāt remember the exact one but I could repeatable get Tusk to fly up and off the screen. Also, if you are a fightstick player the last time I tried it Rare replay wonāt recognize fightsticks.
KI 2 arcade is a better game in every way unless you love the real time backgrounds from N64 and the extra single player modes (like the training with the monk mentioned in this thread).
As an aside, Rare Replay is worth it even if you only like a couple of the games.
I am not a fightstick player, and I do own the original on N64 still (and that control, janky though it may be, somehow felt right to me). I donāt know if Iām the only one, but I have a very hard time using the default xb1 controller. Itās that d-pad - itās clicky, but ā ā ā ā ā the complaining. KI Gold was the best. Nothing beat beating the character dojo challenges and unlocking the gold and shadow colors (and Iām hoping those are still included?)
I do have KI2 and KI arcade classic but either I suck at those games now, or Iām rubbish with that controller. (as I said before, KI is the only reason I own an XB1), especially those originals. Love 'em both. Kind of a shame they didnāt include the old Gameboy version of the first game on the collection hahahahahahaha. 
@CalendarWolf KI Gold was my childhood too. When I was younger at my cousinās old house, Iād play that game all the time and was my entryway to the Killer Instinct series.
But back on subject, Iāve seen a really small amount of people wanting to see āThe Masterā in the new KI game. I say thereās a 0% chance for two reasons:
- The whole āold karate sensei manā thing has been beaten to death in the fighting genre (something KI is clearly wanting steer away from)
- Chances are, Iron Galaxy are probably unaware of his existence.
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kind of wish they would patch rare replay there are a few minor glitches in the n64 games as well as minor sound issues in the other games that they really should iron out
If nothing else, KI Gold is good for the training mode, and then you can go into KI2 armed with the knowledge you get from itā¦not that Iām telling you anything you donāt already know.
Anyway, one thing I did once I thought was kinda neatā¦I have a Cronusmax and a N64 usb adapterā¦so I played KI2 with a N64 controller.
It was pretty fun doing thatā¦and much better than a traditional XB1 controller, what with all of KI2ās combos being of the āaround the worldā variety.
oh snap. since the dojo is in Kim Wuās stage, you could say heās the human form of the dragon spirit, as detailed in Kimās novella
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I always assumed he was the one who trained Jago.
Its kim wus grandfather spirit