Talk:Cornell/@comment-1672596-20180818133815/@comment-91.192.22.73-20180818161331

Purely technically, Judgement is a "Dream Match" kid of a fighting game, so story-wise it's absolutely uncanon, but canonicity itself-wise it doesn't cotradict any of the main series' game entries due to NOT affecting them in any way whatsoever at all.

In this regard, both N64's Akumajou games AND also Judgement are uncanon, but only N64's entries actually contradicted mainline at the time (until later retcons induced by Lord of Shadows and etc), while Judgement gets a "pass". It's like with KoF '96 and KoF 2002 in relation to other King of Fighters mainline games - they're uncanon and don't affect series' story in any way whatsoever, but due to them being very solid games in on themselves (as representatives of fighting genre which both are very popular) - they get a pass from both the fanbase and the general public.