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Samurai Shodown
"A brand new title from SNK! A new Samurai Shodown is on the horizon! Since its birth in 1993, the Samurai Shodown series has been known as the premier weapon based versus fighting games, and was essential in cultivating the weapon based fighting game genre. As the first new release in the series in more than 10 years, Samurai Shodown is aiming to...
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Samurai Shodown Reviews
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Although a bit archaic on some of the single player content Samurai Shodown manages to successfully bring its style of combat to the current generation of consoles and deliver a technical fighter that is rare to find these days.
SAMURAI SHODOWN has enjoyed worldwide success as a blade-wielding fighting game series since its first release in 1993. Faithfully reproducing the game
Above all, Samurai Shodown proves that SNK still has its fighting spirit. King of Fighters XIV wasn’t an accident and it seems like any future games won’t be, either. Now we just need to get Capcom back on track.
After years in meditative hibernation, this once-lost Shogun warrior has reemerged to do battle with old nemeses Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, and to take a few arms home with it in the process.
Think of the greatest rivalries back from your childhood. Coke versus Pepsi. Tupac versus Biggie. Nickelodeon versus Cartoon Network. Blur versus Oasis. In the realm of Japanese fighting games, the big rivalry was between Capcom and SNK. On one side, you had the ten billion iterations of Street Fighter, plus Darksiders and Rival Schools. On the other side, you had The King of Fighters, Fatal Fury, as well as Samurai Shodown.
An excellent fighting game fine-tuned for tense, thrilling bouts. While the fighting is always fun, its feature set is slim, with only a handful of modes that don't stray far from the core gameplay. If you're looking for a fight, you've found a good one, but don't expect a big story mode or much side content.
If you have access to other consoles, or if you aren’t interested in playing Samurai Shodown on the go, the Switch version of the game might not be the best way to experience the game. However, it’s still fundamentally the same great combat, so if you’re willing to make some visual and performance compromises, you’ll find a solid fighter here.
SNK has revived its sword-swinging fighting series, Samurai Shodown. Does it live up to its predecessors? Here's our review...
Samurai Shodown is a good fighting game. It really is. But with the Switch version’s framerate issues, long loading times, and blurry visuals stacking on top of the existing lack of content and modes, however, its cost is a large pill to swallow. If you’ve got money to burn you’ll certainly get some joy out of it, but with fighters like Under Night In-Birth Exe: Late[cl-r] now available on Switch, it could be better spent elsewhere.
Not showing up anybody.Like many other once dormant series in recent years, Samurai Shodown is making a comeback of its own. [...]
The visuals of Samurai Shodown are sharp and distinct, with a suitably Japanese style emanating out of everything, from the characters to the background. The (optional) blood adds a lot to combat, as it adds some striking and gory color to combat with each slash. The character designs in Samurai Shodown are worth mentioning as well, as they’re so visually diverse and well-designed that I found myself extensively trying out characters that I would typically only use once or twice. The music is wonderful as well, giving off an almost whimsical or romantic Japanese vibe.