History YMMV / GarouMarkOfTheWolves

** Rock himself tends to be ranked at the bottom tier due to his combos and his specials providing weak damage output, his PR moves easily avoidable,

* {{Moe}}: Hotaru. She's a sweet girl who just wants to reunite with her family after her mother was murdered. But her father is long gone, and the man she thinks is (and is heavily implied to be) her long-lost brother not only vehemently denies it, but regards her with sheer contempt and threatens to kill her if they meet again. It also helps her Moe credentials that her first voice actress (Yuki Horie) provided the most cute voice she can muster for her (without going [[CuteButCacophonic too overboard]]). [[IntendedAudienceReaction According to]] WordOfGod, [[IntendedAudienceReaction this was entirely intentional.]] When she reappears in [[VideoGame/FatalFuryCityOfTheWolves the sequel]], her second voice actress (Creator/ManakaIwami) is able to keep Hotaru's cute voice intact.

* {{Moe}}: Hotaru. She's a sweet girl who just wants to reunite with her family after her mother was murdered. But her father is long gone, and the man she thinks is (and is heavily implied to be) her long-lost brother not only vehemently denies it, but regards her with sheer contempt and threatens to kill her if they meet again. It also helps her Moe credentials that her voice actress (Yuki Horie) provided the most cute voice she can muster for her (without going [[CuteButCacophonic too overboard]]). [[IntendedAudienceReaction According to]] WordOfGod, [[IntendedAudienceReaction this was entirely intentional.]]

* HilariousInHindsight: Hokutomaru is a [[IdiotHero hyperactive knuckleheaded ninja]] voiced by Creator/JunkoTakeuchi ... three years before she started voicing '''the''' [[Manga/{{Naruto}} hyperactive knuckleheaded ninja]].

* NewerThanTheyThink: The Buster Wolf is Terry's most iconic - if not memetic - move. It'd be easy to assume he'd had it all along, but it debuted here, in the ''last'' game of his series. It didn't even appear in ''The King of Fighters'' until ''2003'' because Terry used his ''Garou'' design in that game.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: This game introduces us to Second Southtown, which despite suffering from its criminal underworld, has a far more prosperous and lighthearted setting than how the original Southtown used to be. Less than a year after this game takes place, Southtown will be obliterated by a KillSat in the finale of ''The King of Fighters 2000'', and it'll take a long time to rebuild from the ruins. While this is technically in a different continuity, you've got to wonder how many Southtown residents seen in this game survived.

* TierInducedScrappy: Kevin. Chances are you may not be looked upon fondly by other players if you pick him due to his wild versatility thanks to his special moves, with the three most notorious of them being his ''Hell Arrest'', which is widely considered ''the'' best command grab in the game due to the speed at which it comes out, his ''Hell Rotor'', which is used for his ''Rotor Dance'' glitch, which allows him to build meter at an absurd rate of speed, and finally, his ''Hell Trap'', which, while less obviously overpowered than the others, is the ''only'' low hitting break move in the game. These three special moves, combined with him having some of the best combos in the game, make him blatantly unfair to fight against.

* SugarWiki/SoCoolItsAwesome: It was the final game in a long-running series (until a sequel was ''finally'' announced at EVO 2022 after 20+ years of dormancy for the ''Fatal Fury'' series), with a good story, interesting characters, a wide variety of complex and demanding gameplay mechanics, and pushes the graphics of its home console to their absolute zenith. Unsurprisingly, many fans regard ''Garou'' as one of - if not '''THE''' - greatest fighting game of all time.

* CultClassic: ''Garou'' is often regarded as not only the best ''Fatal Fury'' game, but of all '''Creator/{{SNK}} itself'''. That's high praise, and it's definitely earned it. Its extremely limited run of its North American release in 1999 practically doomed it to obscurity, but its rerelease on modern consoles has garnered a whole new audience.

** The identity of the Gym Buster mentioned in Khushnood's ending. Most fans believe it to be Yamazaki, as he always had a well-established reputation for violence. All WordOfGod has stated is that they were noted to be wearing a Chinese outfit.
** In addition to this, it just gives for more speculations on what the heck is the goal of Gato and Hotaru's father. He's implied to have murdered their mother, but for what purpose, we do not know. The Chinese outfit as mentioned above might imply that he could have been the Gym Buster, and additionally, WordOfGod imply that in the past, he trashed Tizoc so badly that it became an impetus into thinking that he's been a wash-out (though thankfully not to the point of a FaceHeelTurn like in ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters XIV''). And of course, he helped out Kain.

* NewerThanTheyThink: The Buster Wolf is Terry's most iconic - if not memetic - move. It'd be easy to assume he'd had it all along, but it actually debuted here, in the ''last'' game of his series. It didn't even show up in ''The King of Fighters'' until ''2003'' due to Terry using his ''Garou'' design in that game.
* PopularWithFurries: In spite of not being an actual anthromorphic animal, Tizoc has a notable furry fanbase due to his barechestedness and musculature.
* ScrappyMechanic: The power-down pickups in Survival Mode. They're easy enough to avoid during normal gameplay, but the CPU is usually too smart to walk right into them. But what's especially frustrating is ending a match with a multi-hit combo, and then accidentally catching power-downs when you don't have control of your character. If you're ''really'' unlucky, you might get stuck with multiple health or time-down items, effectively ruining your run in a matter of seconds.

* MemeticMolester: Hotaru Futaba, thanks to her Tenshou Ranki super, which is more infamously known as the ''Flying Queen of Chaos.'' She kicks her opponent up into the air, jumps up and straddles them on the way back down, slides and pins them to the ground, and drains their health while arching her back... all while letting out a rather dramatic yell, and ending it with a weary sigh. It's just as bad as it sounds, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBxcm6hAgOU and must be seen to be believed.]] The fact that the training mode display shows the strong version of the super does ''69'' basic damage if it fully connects makes it so much worse and/or hilarious.

* SugarWiki/SoCoolItsAwesome: It's the final game in a long-running series, with a good story, interesting characters, a wide variety of complex and demanding gameplay mechanics, and pushes the graphics of its home console to their absolute zenith. Not surprisingly, many fans regard ''Garou'' as one of - if not the - greatest fighting game of all time.

** In addition to this, it just gives for more speculations on what the heck is the goal of Gato and Hotaru's father. He's implied to have murdered their mother, but for what purpose, we do not know. The Chinese outfit as mentioned above might imply that he could have been the Gym Buster, and additionally, WordOfGod imply that in the past, he trashed Tizoc so badly that it became an impetus into thinking that he's been a wash-out (though thankfully not to the point of a FaceHeelTurn like in ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters XIV''). And of course, he helped out Kain. The patriarch of the Futaba family will remain to be a mystery since the series was LeftHanging.

** If you input a super or a T.O.P Attack during the recovery of another move, your character becomes throw-invincible until the recovery ends.