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Released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC in 2019, it took the Fighting Game Community by storm and it quickly earned a spot in Evolution Championship Series 2019, thus completing the resurgence of SNK. They expressed the desire to bring the franchise back from the grave and made steps for it when they came back to the mainline gaming scene, by including the franchise heroine and company co-mascot Nakoruru into The King of Fighters XIV and SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy, this way, it brought back the attention of the mainstream to the series.Īnd bring the franchise back they did with a new game simply titled Samurai Shodown again, a 2.5D game running on Unreal Engine 4 which harkens back to the classic gameplay.

SNK didn't give up on the franchise, however. The franchise went onto a hiatus after Edge of Destiny, seeing that the game was very much reviled, relegating Samurai Shodown into either mobile/pachislot titles. The circle was completed when Haohmaru was announced as a DLC character for the Soul Calibur VI Season 2 pass. It even gets some small nods in various outfits for the characters that echo those found in Samurai Shodown. It is in its own way, a sort of spiritual predecessor and inspiration for the current dominant weapons fighter - SoulCalibur.
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That doesn't mean that the games' English translations aren't full of accidental misspellings and "Blind Idiot" Translation, though.

Incidentally, the title is deliberately misspelled, a sort of portmanteau of "showdown" and "shodo" (calligraphy). While perhaps not entirely historically authentic - the period between Sengoku and Bakumatsu was awfully short on fire-breathing kabuki actors, green cavemen, and clockwork robot onmyoji, and none of the Tokugawas was a Handsome Lech who wielded eight swords at once - the game is notable for its atmosphere, which enthusiastically recalls the Edo period's music, style of dress, etc. Capcom series, and the third Days of Memories game features only Samurai Shodown characters. A few characters have appeared in crossover games like the SNK vs. A few Spin Offs were made, like Shinsetsu Samurai Spirits: Bushido Retsuden, (aka Samurai Shodown RPG) for the Neo-Geo CD, Nakoruru: Ano Hito kara no Okurimono for the PC and Dreamcast, as well as a pachislot game. Ports of most games existed - including two for the Neo-Geo Pocket - but were not numerous. Samurai Shodown VI was released for the Atomiswave arcade board and Samurai Shodown: Edge of Destiny was released for the Taito Type X2. Other two games, Samurai Shodown 64 and Samurai Shodown 64: Warriors Rage, were released for the ill-fated Hyper Neo-Geo 64 in the late nineties, while a Distant Finale game, sharing the title (losing only the "64") Samurai Shodown: Warriors Rage was later released for the Playstation, much to the confusion of the players in Japan the games are known as Samurai Spirits 2 Asura Zanmaden and Kenkaku Ibunroku - Yomigaerishi Soukou no Yaiba - Samurai Supirittsu Shinshou respectively.
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An update for that game called Samurai Shodown V Perfect was in development, but was never actually released until years later as part of a collection, then finally getting an official arcade release a full 18 years after the release of Special. Also, on a lesser note, it's rather bloody to say the may not have focused on the gore aspect like Mortal Kombat, but it can fill almost as many buckets.Ī total of six games were made for the original Neo-Geo (MVS and AES) system, with Samurai Shodown V Special being the last game to be released for the system. However, for this very reason, its remained mostly in the cult favorite realm as high-speed super-combo-chaining fighters have taken nearly complete prominence. It leads to a more chess-like experience with a focus on hit-an-run tactics that makes play quite unlike most other 2-D fighters. Specifically, thanks to the high damage output of singular moves, the battles here would run either incredibly quick or maddeningly slow. Overall compared to its numerous fighting game brethren, Samurai Shodown stood out from the crowd namely by being more about finesse and less about chaining super combos. Samurai Shodown 2 is also credited with introducing the first "parry" system. Once filled, this gauge increases the strength of attacks starting with the second game, Samurai Shodown 2, each character also has a super move that empties the gauge after successfully connecting. The first game, Samurai Shodown, was the debut of the Weapon Fighter subgenre, and the one of the first fighting games to introduce a super meter, the Rage Gauge. Known as Samurai Spirits in Japan, this SNK one-on-one Fighting Game series is set during the closing years of the Edo period.
