Not exactly a lucky number, but anything's better than last year's KOF XII.
While XII was all about redrawing huge character sprites and backgrounds from scratch, it shipped as an unfinished game seriously lacking in features and online play.
I'm hoping XII was basically a modern-day KOF '96 that was rushed to market unfinished, but followed by KOF '97, which was an excellent game that actually implemented everything that didn't make it into the previous game.
Don't let me down again, SNK.