A long time ago i showed one of the the many awesome Japanese editions, i also got back in the day the European one but forgot to show it here (the quality of the pictures didn’t help ^_^u) until now. It’s not quite as magnificent as the Japanese one, but still quite cool. This is the Switch version but the PS4 one is bound to be the same, i also thing the USA version is identical but haven’t really checked it.
That there is going to be a second season pass is nothing new, it was announced alongside Mina, then Sogetsu was confirmed in a possibly not wanted way… and now we have confirmation that Iroha (and a 4th still unknown character) will be joining Samurai Shodown.
Iroha first appeared in Samurai Shodown VI, that for whatever reason is not too appreciated when i think it’s a lot of fun. Iroha became super popular in no time for a good while but eventually her popularity faded and by now she was mostly forgotten by SNK (I can’t believe she wasn’t included in SNK Heroines!).
By preordering or buying Samurai Shodown within the first days, PS4 and Xbox One users could get the first Fighter Pass (5 DLC characters) for free, for Nintendo Switch it’s quite a bit different, you get only 1 of the DLC characters (Shizumaru, you have to pay for the remaining 4), but more importantly, you get “Samurai Shodown! 2” a NeoGeo Pocket Color game that is nothing short of awesome, probably i’m about the only one who think this, but Switch owners get the better deal!.
The emulator includes a graphic filter that emulates very well how games really looked in a NGP Color screen, hopefully youtube doesn’t destroy the video and it can be appreciated! ^_^uuu
It has taken a good while (and still will take in most parts of the world) but Samurai Shodown (2019) is already available for Switch. While some sacrifices had to be done i would say that Safari Games (they took care of the Switch version) did an awersome job!.
It was a small dream of mine to have some SNK representation in Smash and it finally realized; ideally it would have been Mai Shiranui but it couldn’t be (for now) and Terry is one of my favorite characters (pretty much i like anything Fatal Fury related) so I’m really happy. Aside of the really ugly KOF stadium which is his stage (there are already a few look alike stadiums in the game so…) pretty much anything else is great, Sakurai’s team made a wonderful job integrating Terry within smash framework adding a few irks exclusives to Terry (i think most DLC characters add some exclusive elements to the gameplay). Specially noteworthy is the insane amount of music tracks added to the game, 50, with a few great remixes, specially noteworthy is a new remix of the classic Psycho Soldier theme made by Yuzo Koshiro (if you don’t know who he is… please, make yourself a favor and look for some information). Some Mii costumes has been also added, Nakoruru, Iori and Ryo Sakazaki… i’m not a big fan of the Miis but the costumes are really cute!.
If you haven’t watched the official presentation video of Terry, well, it’s great… in my totally biased opinion, the best one so far, and all of them have been great!
That Mai was joining the DOA 6 cast was wll known even previously to the release of the game but we didn’t know about Kula until very recently, in any case both character are already available!. Just like it was the case with Mai in DOA 5 Last Round, Ninja Team has done a superb job adapting these popular SNK girls into the DOA world, changing their fighting style to adapt it to DOA but still keeping their full essence.
Just a couple of months after Super Real Mahjong PV, SRM PVI arrives to the Japanese eShop and even if it’s quite barebone, it has a couple of new features, like a gallery and a mini game and of course a new cast of girls to play with.
Super Real Mahjong games are kind of like strip poker games, but with mahjong instead of poker, as you keep winning your adversary will undress until be mostly nude, but these scenes has been censored with some light beams covering the girls for the Switch version.
The last (official) NeoGeo game is finally available in the ACA NeoGeo series and it also marks the ends of these releases, at least for the time beign (there are still more NeoGeo games unreleased). Samurai Shodown V Special is considered by many the best Samurai Shodown, i don’t like it that much but it certainly is worthy of beign the last NeoGeo game.
If you were wondering, this release of SSVS is uncensored.
As gorgeous as the previously released Pyra figure and created by Max Factory and Good Smile company, Mythra has been finally released after a short delay.
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