Samurai Shodown

She had a cute butt.

Totally cute.

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Samurai Shodown 2 is the greatest fighting game ever made.

More.

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>citation needed.

I'm gonna unsheathe my katana!

Samurai Showdown has interesting gameplay and a cool aesthetic but always had abysmal BONG BONG BONG!... YOOOOOOOOOO!!!! tier music

I can't give my source and I shouldn't do this at all, but since I was surprised by the popularity of one of our last thread, I though that it would be a good thing to share this with you. If you don't want to believe me, then don't, it's not important.

Don't get cut. Take care.

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>she doesn't wear panties

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>game will have a lot of characters
I hope you're right.

I beginning to feel doubtful. The most recent trailer didn't have anyone new from the original.

>bow
Oh no, I don't want to play a zoner.

I'll be surprised if it's more than 20 desu

When is pax ?

Fuck you, that music is god tier and is the best possible for those games.

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20 would be very good. Most 2D fighters don't launch with that many.

Too bad for you because that's what she is.

20 would be fucking nice. That's a lot for a fighter launching and that should cover quite a bit of characters in the franchise.

They weren't supposed to show anything during the Evo lineup announcement, even them were surprised to get this.
It's just a teaser made in a short time, it's apparently not a little project for SNK.
I don't know the number, but it's not a small roster like the first games.

Guess I'm not playing best girl then.

Last Blade superior

Yes, honestly I'm not even sure about 20. Only reason I said that is because SNK pumped out a shitload of characters for KoF.

Do any of the older games still hold up well? Should I try out whatever the latest one was?

Thx even if you are making this up, always nice to talk with other anons of a long forgotten franchise that may get a revival.

You started a SamSho thread without knowing a damn thing about it? Literally all games, barring Sen and Revenge, all take within a 4 years timespam, every single character could appear save 2 or 3 from the aforementioned games.

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>but always had abysmal BONG BONG BONG!... YOOOOOOOOOO!!!! tier music
This might be first time a really meant this: Kill yourself.

MY FUCKING NIGGA RIGHT THERE!
This user knows whats up.

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I hope this guys in. I used to play him at the mini arcade at a donut shop

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Try 2.

The best ones are Samurai Shodown 2 and Samurai Shodown V Special

God no. Just play 2 and 5 Special. Each version has its fans but those 2 are generally accepted to be the best. The new one is looking closer to 2.

Alright I'll give it a shot.

>make a sexy character
>give her one of the most heartbreaking story mode endings
she didn't deserve it

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I want Iroha in so I can finally behead her.

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I did enjoy it more, but SS is still pretty solid.

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Patiently waiting

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In what aspect? If Last Blade was superior it would have gotten more than two games.

>not hibiki

>You started a SamSho thread without knowing a damn thing about it?
>all take within a 4 years timespam
>every single character could appear
Are you fucking retarded? Can you even read?
I just said that the game is set between SS5 and 1 (It's official), because a lot of people think that it's a Samurai Shodown remake/reboot and that we will get characters from SS1 and 2 and nothing else.

Haohmaru rejected this for a generic yamato nadeshiko, Samurai Shodown is nationalist propaganda.

>Japanese saumrai game
>WTF WHY DOES IT HAVE JAPANESE SAMURAI MUSIC
kys

it has no combos, how is it great?

SS gameplay blew dicks, no combos, and every attack did like a third or more of your hp in damage, its a 2d bushido blade(which also sucked ass)

>Galford wants to bang nakoruru
What did Japan mean by this

Can anyone explain this pose/fighting stance for me? I never understood it and it looks so weird.

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She's asking for the axe, with that position.

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Is this going to be like the last 3D game that relied on gory shock value?

They knew the gaijin would forever want their pure breed japanese waifus.

Combos are the most brainless part of fighting games desu

reminder this game should be rated adults only, zankuro brutally rapes basara's wife and forces him to watch before killing them both

no, its the series' sf4

CHAM CHAM WHEN

Legit would breed nakoruru

They';re the most fun which is why the genre evolved to have more combo mechanics. This game will die if it doesn't have crazy combos, this hit someone 2-3 times shit is boring as fuck like a bad movie fight scene

>set between SS5 and SS1

Damn, was kinda hoping for a reboot.

Ah well, put Mina in and all is forgiven.

based

I'm excited. My interest in fighting games had completely dried up after consecutive disappointments (SFV, MvC:I, DBZ, BBC:Tag) but this looks promising. I hope it does well and doesn't die after a week.

Several Samurai Shodown games rely on gory shock value, it only varies how violent it can be.

- Not violent: SSI, SS6.
- Violent but not by much: SS2, SS3, SS64, Warrior Revenge.
- Japanese Mortal Kombat: SS5 Special, SS Sen

>Combos are the most brainless part of fighting games desu

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Post more sexy girls

>- Japanese Mortal Kombat: SS5 Special, SS Sen

Eh, MK is worse.

>reminder this game should be rated adults only
Japan is being held by the balls with how neutered CERO has become, this game won't be V Special levels of violent, you can already see Black & White filters on the violence on the reveal teaser from 5 months ago.

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It will die fast if they don't add longer combos

*sigh* fine

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>Japan is being held by the balls with how neutered CERO has become

What the fuck
Who is responsible for this
Why must everything be ruined

dropped

youtu.be/6V98dTOShSc?t=66

I demand this level of violence or else

best song?

youtube.com/watch?v=V3-nux4NqWc&list=PLC7869BFBF1B9C6D0&index=20

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you're in the wrong thread if you want combos
samurai shodown is a traditional fighter about spacing and rewarding huge damage on reads

sounds boring, even sfv has longer combos man

Maybe the international release is uncensored like with Resident Evil/Biohazard.

Media uproar in Japan in the early 2000's when a highschooler beheaded one his colleagues, nation wide hysteria tried to point fingers and video games of course where one of the "possible" causes teens could be that degenerate, CERO reacted by making stronger guidelines for their ratings.

You are maining best girl, right Yea Forums?

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Only if Gen-an is gone.

SamSho 2 character select gets me pumped all the time.

youtube.com/watch?v=2Kw98oAY2uo

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T H I C C

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We can only hope.

I think they say that there is an option for it.

>They';re the most fun
If you're a brainlet, yeah.

There's nothing genuinely interesting about mindlessly reciting a canned button sequence while having almost no interaction with your opponent.

>Samurai Showdown has interesting gameplay
Oh hell yeah, standing around for 97 seconds just so you can try to get the first hit in during the last 2 seconds so you win, because playing normally would make you lose since the game is based around one shotting the opponents with counters, is so fucking interesting.

dumb weeb

Yeah, it's more fun to watch 2 people spam their one best normal over and over. I'm sure this is why all those console fighting games from the 90s did so well

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Quick what's your favorite samsho engrish

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just play Marvel

You can confirm a few of those things, mainly the lack of info and the it being set between 5 and 1 since a year is given in very first trailer. The last point is just common sense.

Smells of evil... and gym socks!

>SS64, Warrior Revenge.
Are these finally playable in mame?

Been wanting to mess around with them forever.

When?

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There's so many good ones but this one will always be my personal favorite.

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Nigga just say you're scared of footsies.

Wtf lol

If those 2 people are actually interacting with each other, yes, neutral is genuinely way more interesting than combos. What shitty game has a "one best normal"? What are you even talking about?

>I'm sure this is why all those console fighting games from the 90s did so well
You mean like, gee, I dunno... SF2 and mortal kombat?

If anything, long combos are inversely correlated with popularity. I don't see anime fighters blowing up the charts.

Shit you really make me mad. I'm involved with the troubles user. I'll fuck you up.

youtube.com/watch?v=g1sO7jUp4jI

This opening is my favorite shit.

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>no Gen-An
Charlotte and Jubei being back is good at least but I want the goblin man back.

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>You mean like, gee, I dunno... SF2 and mortal kombat?
No, those originated from the arcades. I mean like Eternal Champions, Brutal, Ballz, etc.

>anything, long combos are inversely correlated with popularity

Tekken 7 says otherwise. Two characters pacing back and forth afraid to hit one another is fuckin boring as shit.

The second Eternal Champions actually had some pretty insane combo potential.

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Not as insane as current fighters

What the fuck was up with SSVI's translation? There are moments where it is reads like it went through google translate and others where it's just crazy shit being said.

Earthquake being in makes me feel like Gen-An has some damn good chances. SS7 looks like it is the SFIV approach with getting as many characters from the first two games in.

Thanks for showing me this guy. I'll get into this series now.

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No Gen-an
No buy

No shit, it was released 24 years ago.

NRS games consistently outsell MK games, and SF is still a bigger property despite capcom's sfv fuckup.

In any case the notion that games will bomb if they don't have CUHRAZY COMBOS XD is completely retarded. Mainstream buyers can't pull of the combos and hardcore players definitely don't mind neutral-focused games.

Yes, the genre has evolved since then, so sam showdown needs to as well, longer combos

SS2 was my first ever one on one fighter. Played it at the arcade shack by the lake I'd swim at during the summer. Good times.

tekken is the most successful fighter this gen, and mvc was liked more than sf til mvci ruined it

MK can have it's crazy combos, has seen in this blockstring infinite.

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My nigga.

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literally the only reason i haven't touched any game past 2.

one of the coolest video game weapons ever.

What about this nigga ?

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I want both of them to bear my fruit!!!

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SamSho had such a unique approach to fighting game music.
youtube.com/watch?v=aPJ3ACXshho
youtube.com/watch?v=vnq7ZvYKpO0

giggity

Are you 12?

>next samurai shodown takes place in the present day
>his descendant has an e-cig

Yes, samsho should abandon what makes it unique so it can be like every other fighting game so it can appeal to combo video trogdolytes who want fighters to be turn-based rhythm games, great idea.

Literally none of you has played Samsho. This series is most likely older than all of you

More like his descendant smokes weed.

you must be fun at parties

I have it installed rn on my computer and i played it yesterday.

Sorry, that's smash ultimate, which has fuck all for combos compared to melee and hasn't been hindered by it at all.

>implying people haven't smoked weed for thousands of years

Any SNK thread has spics, so you wrong you dumb gringo, people in here has played it and played a lot.

How mad will people get if we get Tam Tam instead of Cham Cham, since this one takes place before he gets monkey'd so she has no reason to be out of the village?

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I'm 7 years older than SS and I played it at my friend's house back in the day.

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I'd be happy with that.

I don't think they had hemp in Japan but yeah people have been smoking that since forever, Gauls smoked weed for example.

I would prefer this honestly.

his fatality in V was literally savage.

He's cooler than Cham Cham.

fuck pedos

>Shitting on the music

this is wrong

commit sudoku

Well every 3d fighter added supers and meter and that worked out fine so why not?

Was the SS RPG for the weird neogeo console translated?
Was it good?

youtube.com/watch?v=O6AaAkTYVxM

This is the jam.

Smash isn't a fighter though

So is this.

youtube.com/watch?v=uF6LBY1br40

Jesus christ this is funky. Don't think I have ever given SS3's arranged soundtrack a listen.

And to think, this guy's great great great whatever granddaughter is Mai Shiranui.

Really hope this guy returns.

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Hope you don't forget to mute the tv whenever you play with this character.

Is it because you can relate to him?

Does it have fatalities, OP?

Well yeah, I too ate my daughter as she begged for her life. You would think with such a common problem more characters would go through this struggle bu no.

Will Amakusa be in or not? I only enjoyed IV.

Neither tekken nor soulcalibur players particularly like those additions, they just tolerate them.

It's in a fighting sub-genre, just like tekken.

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i want to see her cute head flying through the sky

Basara killed his own wife. Probably fell for the demon dick

>Inb4 it's another case of SamSho devs having a boner for her that she's inmune to gore finishers

>tfw never played samsho but still know this girl because a top-tier anal doujin artist keeps making porn of her

You are evil.

>Main her for years
>didn't know about this
This is embaressing, tell me more user

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this is samurai brodown
not samurai hoedown

please no

yes, i am

To be fair I think it's mostly because cero has become stupidly strict over the past decade. Often Japanese devs with gore in their games will include it in their international versions as a fuck you to them.

But Nako is for cuddles.

youtu.be/CjYPwfm2NJE?t=113

Chill-out

This is boring, her screams were the cutest part.

Oh my. I only played the 2D games. They really ramped up the gore in those 3D ones, it seems.

Sen is actually pretty tame compared to V Special.

Sen is an oddball title, not a lot of people liked it.

Not really, while V can get bloody there isn't much actual gore. For example, in all the kills that chop people into pieces it's just black on the inside. Probably the most brutal one is Kusaregedo's where he eats the person but even then he drags them offscreen enough where you don't even get to see anything, the screams are pretty brutal though.

You can still use the fatalities on Nako in V Special. One was even kinda sexualized since her cloth had a ripping animation.

Yeah but my main man hasn't been confirmed yet.

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Yeah, that animation was kinda cute.

>Nakoruru is literally split in half and beheaded
user, please.

I don't think it's that bad.

You don't like the fucking explosions and screaming?

I used to mash C+D though 4 when I was a kid-a, boy-o.

I want Rera...

You forgot the best part of that fatality. He spits up something, sometimes their hair, sometimes clothing.

Never played a Samurai Shodown game, can anyone give me a rundown on how it plays? Mostly neutral-based? Tons of damage?

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Small combos, very small, high damage. Counter hits hurt like a mother fucker, very neutral based.

True, but its not like MK, which (sometimes) goes for anatomical accuracy. Just black voids and little splashes of blood.

Though neither of them top Eternal Champions...

I honestly think you couldn't bring this guy back unless it's like Jedah in MvC:I and they neuter the fuck out of him sadly. Definitely one of the cooler characters though and it would be great to see him again.
I wasn't saying they weren't violent, just that the fatalities in Sen are still about as violent as the other games, they're just nowhere near as over the top.
I think what he spits up changes depends on the character too, it's a nice touch.

It's a Kiseru. Unsavory people used them as weapons. And caffene nicotine is a scumbag.

Sounds like 2D SoulCalibur, which is good.

>they want to be back on the market with more than just KOF like it was during their golden era
SNK was the definition of fun, so I'd be fine with them making a comeback.

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>they want to be back on the market with more than just KOF like it was during their golden era (which can lead to more games if this one is a success)
Meanwhile Capcom refuses to do anything other than drive SF and MvC into the ground.

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>Shitting on TING TING TING YOOOOOO

youtube.com/watch?v=S5OZ0BJ07ck

>they went with USF4's shit ugly graphics
of fucking course

Yes it changes. Its unique for every character. Although it is similar to Basara when he pulls them under ground, and a piece of them flies up.

>they have a lot to show but they can't do it because someone in the marketing department don't want to show anything before getting a publisher for each region

Never let marketing fully control brand management. That's a business101 fuck up.

so it's a lot about spacing and pokes? is each character super different from each other or something?

Its funny, for years they were never more than just "that company that makes fighting games and isn't Capcom". But after getting theSS Anthology and the 40th Anniversary Collection, they really deserve all the praise.

damn you're right, i won't buy the new one now

Yeah but V also had like the worst song ever. The one in the swamp that just went "UNG, UNG UNGUNGUNG."

Yes, very much so. There are some with kinda similar moves, but still more different than like Street Fighter.

Also I fucking hope Andrew comes back, he was the best part of VI. Playing as Andrew Jackson was the fucking best.

SNK has been close to bankruptcy for years, they make most of their small income off of gacha shit no one really plays. The fact they even revived it despite it not having the fame of something like KoF or Metal Slug is honestly amazing. Yeah nothing will beat sprites but still, if it delivers at least in terms of gameplay and gore I can forgive them.

The game would lose a lot of potential sales from that decision. Even if they don't want to admit it (see SNK heroines) she's one of their most popular characters.

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sounds pretty fun
what games is the new one going to be the most like? I want to maybe try to get into one of them on fightcade or something to get a feel for the games

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Rival Schools when?

Probably V Special, that is usually considered the best.

People are saying closer to SS2. Get that and V Special roms and give them a try.

youtube.com/watch?v=O6AaAkTYVxM
You're not talking about this one right?

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Considering that they can't even revive Darkstalkers, which was by far the most successful of the non-SF/Marvel games? Never.

V Special is the most popular one but SamSho II has a decently active scene on Fightcade if I remember right.

Yes there we go "Da DAdadada DA Da da"

thanks guys
are there any characters i should either steer clear from or go to first? i'm just basing it off who i think looks the coolest right now but Mina, Mizuki, Tachibana, Tokugawa and Amakusa all look cool

It fits the character, and the sudden "Da.........DAdadada" makes the match more intense. Your opinion is wrong.

Mina is a hard zoning character, but really mobile. Tokugawa is solid all around, he has one of the coolest Heavy attacks. Ukiyo has great pokes.

Anyone wanna play in Fightcade?

>TFW they never kept this for ssvsp instead

youtube.com/watch?v=J5lPHnrnfsA

I did prefer a lot of the V music, just not that one in the swap.

>tfw I forgot to download all my roms again after first getting my new comp
>tfw fightan vidya took down all their games because of nintendo autism
I only have 3S because a friend threw it on mega for me so we could play a few rounds.

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Just get them off Emuparadise.

What's stopping someone from turtling in this game if there are no block strings and the grabs are broken in every single game?

I honestly thought that site was just gone, thanks.

Throws in V Special are fine, they have a 3d startup but you can combo in the corner. Plus your have auto guard on throws, making them good, and if you can't throw them it option selects to a hop, which again, you can use to attack.

No, the work around to download from it takes like a minute to install. I still use it as my primary site for roms, nothing compares. People worry it might not stay up permanently but as of now the work around lets you download stuff as if nothing happened.

Just tell me when you're in? What's your ID?
Mine is Xpheno

Thanks again, thought I just lost my shit for good because I got lazy with double checking.

Brav0man, but don't expect a good fight, I didn't play the SS games too much.
Which one are you going to be waiting in btw? I'm just making sure since I'm getting jojo back first.

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You should try Samsho4, it has all the hueg combos you want. It's also pretty kusoge. The fighting game genre evolving toward what it is today with the 10hrs long combos was a mistake.

V Special. I can play Jojo as well.

Yeah? What's the problem?

im gonna take a bet and say that they actuallyu didnt expect to sell the game in the US when it originally came out in arcade.

therefore, the (possibily obligated by Sammy) English translation was done extremely halfassedly, cuz they really didn't expect anyone to buy the kit for the arcade, or they really never planned to release the arcade in the US.

>saigado
a man of culture

You there?

Hopefulle, the new SamSho will be another entry in the Japanese MK category.

just now had to make sure it worked and map my inputs.

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I played it on an Emulator a few years ago.

Samsho4 had long combos and it died pretty fast.

It reminded me of a 2d tekken with weapons and small combos, improperly applied aggression, puts you at a great risk to devastating counter attacks

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>I'm sure this is why all those console fighting games from the 90s did so well
Most of them do suck but limited combo system wasn't the reason why.

no
yes if you like nako

>Two characters pacing back and forth afraid to hit one another is fuckin boring as shit.
Back and forth is hype. Games where you see players get hit with those longass combos more time than they play neutral game are pretty boring.

Where do you live, some of those matches were really jumpy.

Some asshole, allegedly, made a beta translation of it but doesn't seem to keen on sharing.

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Smash isn't a fighter.

too bad he gets riced

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Almost all SNK girls are top tier waifu material

youtube.com/watch?v=2Kw98oAY2uo

BASED

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East coast.

there won't be any gore

>be on the age where even SS is on that ugly 3D instead of 2D with those amazing backgrounds

I know the SNK problems, but what a terrible time.

>Nakoruru
>Japanese
She's Ainu

What fighting game is samurai showdown most similar to?

Go get a time machine and stay in the 90's. 2d sprites are expensive and time-consuming and nobody's willing to work with them anymore.

Mostly fighting games series created before 1994. Soul Calibur, Bushido Blade, even if they are a bit of a stretch.

It sucks, but what can you do? Shit's expensive.

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It's not like any 2-d fighter I've played. I would say it's tekken-like in general strategy (spacing, defense, and punishment)
The counter hits are very unique.

She's Ainu, asshole.

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Original SF2

You never hear the audience blow up in excitement when someone does a long combo.
They get hype as fuck when someone threads the needle and lands that decisive hit in the neutral. The hits after the one that starts and before the one that ends the combo have little impact.

He's in

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What is this?

Depends on the combo. I remember during some KOF 13 matches at EVO the audience would exclaim during certain hits of drive combos.

I remember reynald pulling a hell of a comeback with just ex kyo

Implying something like that wouldn't hype everyone.

Shit's Kurosawa as fuck but I just got the imagine in my head of some fucko going NOPE TOO BORING WHERE"S THE ULTRA COMBO!

Hype monkeys would be screaming at the top of their lungs if that happened in a tournament.

You're not wrong, SS is going to get a lot of flak from some retards but hopefully enough people are able to appreciate the game's appeal instead of hating it for not being super fast and aggressive.

I pray to god best girl(male) is in

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> and not a single bitch mentions best boy itt

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This guy said it all You can like combos but hype shit is still hype.

I confess, I don't watch a whole lot of tournaments. Did people land instant kills in GG that often? I imagine that would be the closest equivalent

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>only played samsho a couple times in my life
>still manage to name 15 characters off the top of my head
feels good man

Ainu are japanese ancestors you dumb fucking inbred

I want him to slice my nuts off

That isn't true at all holy shit.

Its the only fightan where u can deal 70% of hp damage with just a single heavy slash

The Ainu aren't japanese are you fucking retarded?

Stupid zoomer never heard of bushido blade huh?

Japan is some crazy ass mix of Japan and Korea

*China, meant to say.

Im too drunk for this shit right now.

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>The Ainu aren't japanese
You're retarded too. Ainu are as japanese as possible. They were there even before the yamato.

youtu.be/hh6TlnZlAFM?t=253

>Ainu
>japanese
Go back to school.

Yeah but they aren't actually "Japanese" in terms of ethnic group, they were displaced by the current japanese people. The ainu don't consider themselves japanes, and the japanese don't consider them japanese. Shit, they are really more russian than anything,

IIRC the yamato people and the koreans have the same origin.
God damn, the guy you replied to said something stupid but you're close to beating him in retardedness.

He's already in. There are silhouettes in the original trailer

>Ainu are japanese ancestors
Idiot.

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I imagine the entire SS1 roster will be included.

They aren't though. They're officially some mixed up Jap/Russian genes

Stop saying dumb shit and use the proper terms. Are gauls descendants not french because the francs came later ?

Japan isn't an ethnic group faggot.

What fucking proper terms? The ethnic japanse people are different than the Ainu, how fucking hard is that to understand?

The Ainu are an ethnic group of Japan which primarily exist in Hokkaido. The archetypal Japanese person is of the Yamato race are from mainland japan.

IK landings are pretty rare but hype people up just the same.
It's not just about landing an instant kill (although that is a significant part of it), but also about people actually seeing the payoff of a tense situation like that huge life loss he was at. You think people remember evo moment 37 or justin's cyclops comeback because they pulled fuckhuge combos? I think samurai showdown is something that'll scratch a different itch all these blockstring simulators can't all the time. Nothing against modern fighters since I still enjoy a lot of them, though. I think the only one I haven't played at this point is tekken due to something else on my radar popping up when it's on sale.

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Ainu are the first settlers of islands that becomes Japan later, dumb fuck

Ainu are ethnic japanese. The yamato too and that's the term you want to use.

Not even gonna consider buying the new game if she isnt in

Retarded weebu

>>set between SS5 and SS1 (so no, you will get more than SS1/2 characters)

So much for Iroha then

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i like both but nah

>This thread

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Ainu were japanese before the "japanese".

Ainu are japanese ancestors you dumb fucking inbreds

Are these games playable on switch? Recommended one to start?

Ainu are trash

>I confess, I don't watch a whole lot of tournaments. Did people land instant kills in GG that often? I imagine that would be the closest equivalent
It's not that uncommon in guilty Gear, it really depend on the character, watch some Nage matches, Faust have different ways to setup his IK.

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I believe they are but if you are actually intending to find other humans to play then just download fightcade.

Doesnt matter too much the online, is just to see which character is best for me

Look at this cool dude.

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what newcomers will we get

Iroha is loosely defined that you can put her anywhere and she'd work (inb4 I'd loosely define Iroha).

Look like ancient slav

Iroha is a stupid bird

Samurai shodown pachislot anime where its a retelling of the first game but with characters from later games
its weirdly romantic too

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There is a lot of connections between the two groups, yes.

Without beard. Look at that chad.

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Rude

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That's pretty much what they are. Archaic Slavs.

it'd be cool if we somehow got a last blade guest character

lol

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So chad, they got btfo and confined to Hokkaido.

Russian as fuck. WTF japs are russians?

anyone have a link to that samsho match where both players didnt attack till the last seconds

Their religion or some shit forbade them to fight for land.

i wanna flip this bird

Yeah but they let chinese niggers immigrate in their country and they fucked up everything.

>My religion requires me to be a bitch.

Sounds non-canon?

Ainu are magic chads. Best swordsman's, defended Hokkaido from nips for some centuries.

I see.

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Nietzsche 101

>WTF japs are russians?
Kinda. Yeah. RussioChinkoKoreos.

They weren't sedentary, they didn't really bothered with stuff like that and it was quickly too late.

fighting games dont have canon ever

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I'm a '96 babby but I got SamSho II on Wii Virtual Console many years ago and loved it. I also main Haohmaru in CvS2 and nut every single time I land st.HP

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Nako, what in kamuy's name are you wearing?

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I started playing Samourai Shodown 1 on SNES with my 7 year older brother. Then I discovered the 4th and 5th on Neo geo and love the 4th.

What about that cute girl with the umbrella?

>girl

>girl

Lul, basically chinese/slav mix

lmao

Most other fighters this gen have "crazier" combos than Tekken 7 though, aside from SFV and Soul Calibur, as much as Yea Forums doesn't like to admit it.

I think it's an alright look to be honest. I like it better than the latest kof and SF5

DBFZ's fucking blockstrings are longer than the average Tekken combo even, why do people like that game?

No russian gene in modern japanese tho. They’re 100% asian

If SF4 had the focus attack aesthetic the entire time yeah

There was an option/costume for that.

That stance is called "waki," I believe. It's to make your enemy think your sword is shorter than it is.

i hope they introduce suio style at some point, ogami itto doesnt get enough love

>how mad would people be if we got this based motherfucker instead of loli pedoshit
Sounds like a win win honestly

>not getting in because ukyo's in
feels bad

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>new trailer shows Haohmaru use a super move that deletes 80% of his opponents health bar
No way that shit is in the final build right?

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sounds right to me

youtube.com/watch?v=NmFDtMw2Ee0

How many hits with a samurai sword do you think you could take before going down?

Sound like Samsho to me especially on counterhit

>an actual comfy Samsho thread on Yea Forums
Sometimes, this place is alright.

Welcome to Samurai Shodown, where a counter hit can mean death.

SamSho was always about big damage over few hits. You're sword fighting after all.

Is best boy, Shizumaru, going to be in this?
Dopest weapon in a fighting game, ever.

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Samurai Showdown 0.5 geez, what happened to moving forward!?

I wanted a new SS after SS2 that is not like those silly old NG64 titles, or the PsX gameused too, but Japan has CERO now

Doesn't she kill herself in her own ending?

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>>they have a lot to show but they can't do it because someone in the marketing department don't want to show anything before getting a publisher for each region

the game is supposed to come out in june, how the fuck are they waiting this late for this

>OH NO NO NO NO NO HIGH DAMAGE LET ME OUT I want Blazblue babby damage!

Never stopped Nakoruru.

So which characters exactly are 100% confirmed so far?

the only ones we can absolutely confirm are the ones on that poster snk themselves showed us that i can't find right now

Haomaru
Galford
Nakoruru
Jubei
Earthquake

also Hanzo, Charlotte and Ukyo

that game has infinites so I'm not sure you know what you're talking about

t. Brainless chimp that wants to mash buttons for miniscule damage but pretend he's doing something

O-O
HOT.

youtube.com/watch?v=KWoIDljo2Go

They're the ancestors of some people in northern Japan because the Japanese came and pretty much wiped out their culture and even their racial identity by interbreeding with them. All that's left of their culture is pieced together and from a Japanese perspective. Even what's left of their language is filtered through the Japanese language and pretty much forgotten.

No, they aren't even related, Boco, you fucking idiot,

Gen-An Shiranui

It had blood before MK, so, god, I hope so

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Samurai Showdown came out a year after MK.

Play CvS2 and pick K-groove Haohmaru then get full rage and hit a motherfucker with counterhit far fierce

Looks like the dude from Big Bang theory.

No relation.

>80%
Yeah, that is no where near enough

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Any chance umbrella boy comes back? Didn't play much samsho before but I remember enjoying him a lot

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Can't unsee

I want to say no because he was picked up by Hao Hiko Style later in the time line.

I'm in my 30s, so yes I did play it. Go away you underage faggot.

the ainu should be proud we got revenge for them by dropping some nukes lmao

How small is his pee pee? Enough for a fujo to suckle on?

>"Well, Sheldon. it looks like your time machine works, but now we're stuck in ancient Japan, somehow!"
>*laughtrack*

youtube.com/watch?v=lpgWTL7T77g
>you will never eat a cute girl
Why live?

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>Quiet, I'm trying to play Warriors Rage on this badly coded Hyper 64 emulator ~desuinga

Oh my.

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And yet he exists in Samsho V, which was supposedly a prequel to the first game. I still have hopes.
Also, can we all agree that this is the best roster Samsho had ever seen?
And can we expect something like this for the new game?

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>Also, can we all agree that this is the best roster Samsho had ever seen?
Doesn't 6 have everyone though?

eventhubs.com/news/2018/dec/09/new-samurai-shodown-reportedly-aiming-mature-rating-charlotte-shown-during-closed-demonstration-plus-king-fighters-15-details/

Yeah I know
>EventHubs
But it's still something. Anything pointing to us never having something like this happen again is good.

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Yes, but it's shit. Don't bother with it.

SUZUHIME NEVER EVER

I think they'd go with black ink dripping instead because of the whole style. Which honestly I hope their is an option for cause I love that shit

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It has anime Andrew Jackson. That's something.

>Great, a free meal

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That is something, but he has no business existing there. Same with Iroha, who's only there for fanservice.

I though most Yamato Japanese had a small percentage of Ainu blood? Or am I thinking of a different group that Japanese are related to?

>Oh look, a free imeal

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>tfw your main is as good as confirmed
Who /kabuki/ here?

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You're thinking of people who want to get tuition discounts and Casino tax breaks

Redpill me on Sen. Was it really a straightforward mash-up between MK and SolCal?

Buy SamSho V Special on PS4, it's like $12 or something. Let's play something while we wait.

Even better is SNK are some crazy motherfuckers who never let actual English speakers translate their games, it's both a blessing and a curse.

What is the deal with samsho and these shirts?

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It was a different time.

>not youtube.com/watch?v=kbBH8y_oNek
The arranged version is pretty sweet too although I could only find it in this which contains all of 2's arranged tracks.
youtu.be/Oi6FlwukGcw?t=1205

I'll be fucking monkey's uncle if we don't get this
youtube.com/watch?v=Iv4VriQyGIA

They really shouldn't have let Raimi direct

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>tekken is the most successful fighter this gen
But isn't that bullshit? MK sells like mad.

Most successful just means whatever game the FGC fellates the most

Base roster for KOF14 was 50 characters.
And it was a new game (with shitty graphics, but still).
SNK is really generous with their roster.

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I want my Last Blade 3 SNK!

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If SNK is serious about running with the big dogs then they need to put a better effort into making a playable online game. SNK is the worst fighting game company when it comes to making a good online.

20 is the safest bet. Better models and not a team game. Maybe 25 if we get lucky.

Never ever

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>People defending "muh combos" shit gameplay

Yeah but Heroines was complete ass.

KOF14 has a great online, user.
And please, don't give me that rollback bullshit.

unironically the Character Select theme from SS5S

youtube.com/watch?v=4FNLFvU14gs

>this is the best roster Samsho had ever seen?
Best out of piles of shit is still shit, VSP not only had a boring evil clone (Haohmaru's, Rera was actually fine), but also two extra pairs of visually dull headswaps. Mina was a mistake, as was Rimururu.

It's probably just one shitposter. I doubt most SamShofags want long flashy combos in the new game.

KoF14 was the most soulless KoF ever.

Even worse than 2001 and 2002.

>Mina was a mistake, as was Rimururu.
You'll be getting both and you know it

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>the most soulless KoF ever.
>game that gave Clark back his actual Running Three
Pick one. Also XII exists.

It will happen!

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Yo I never really played this games very much but if you don't put in the guy that explodes out of his pants you should kill yourself

I hate this, she doesn't mesh well with the whole feudal Japan aesthetic SS strives to have. This is a problem with many of the series' female design, most offensive being Cham-Cham and Iroha. Last Blade's character designs were more cohesive as a whole.

12 was shit, not soulless. 14 was manufactured to be the lowest possible cost while still cashing out on brand's recognition.

Cham and Tam are from South America though. They aren't meant to be fitting

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>14 is a cashgrab
>when cutdown beta version released solely to gather money to continue develepment of XIII wasn't
Okay buddy

Samurai Shodown 2 has always had whacky character designs and Last Blade was the more serious one.

...please tell me thats real

LB2 could just be flat out depressing

Feels like you haven't played much of 14, the game is full of detail and the gameplay is amazing. The detail on Rock's animations to match his sprite must have taken a lot of work. His jacket even moves in the same way

Got the game. I'm a fan, but I have to agree. There are glimpses of SNK soul. (Vice's aerial super, Terry turning his cap backwards before super, HERE'S A BIG WAN!), but the graphics, lack of character intros, no team mates in background, etc hurt the game really bad.

Excellent gameplay. But it feels empty as fuck.

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MK is fucking dogshit lmao

I don't have anything against Tam or other foreigners who actually look the part. But Cham is just a shitty comic relief straight outta the anime of the era she was created in, nothing in her design ties her to a specific place or time.

>Samurai Shodown 2 has always had whacky character designs
And what I'm saying is that they clash like hell with the overall dark athmosphere and constant bloodletting of SamSho.

That's beside the point

...Farquaad?

Yeah, Rock's jacket (and Najd's cape) look good. But if you wanna talk aesthetics, his hair flick looks shit. And his keyframed animation makes every other non-keyframed character look even worse by comparison. Look at Terry's jacket or Iori's. The textures are top-tier, though.

I love all the posts in this thread defending SamSho saying its gameplay is the most fun and saying combos are boring and spectators will blow up watching this game.

Tell me again how often SamSho games have ever gotten slots at EVO or other big fighting game tournaments or even rated in the top 5 fighting games at any given time? SamSho needs to drop it's stupid no combos 2-3 hit kills gimmick and join every other good fighter with combos or fade away. So one wants to watch or play a game where you bainlessly swing and hope you get lucky.

Doesn't matter. Sales = motivation for everything these companies do. MK, regardless of how janky and broken it is, is at the top of the mountain. That's why Capcom tried to copy them. NRS copy Capcom to try and get fgc respect. Capcom try to copy NRS to make more money. Both fail.

t. SEETHING smashfag

There hasn't been a real Samurai Shodown for around 13 years so that argument doesn't have any value.

>the overall dark athmosphere and constant bloodletting of SamSho
I really wouldn't say that is the overall atmosphere. 3 got a bit darker, but in doing so they attempted to make originally silly elements like Kyoshiro a bit less silly. Then it fluctuated a lot. 2 and 5 are still the most popular and they are very bright games with comedic elements.

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What a retarded fucking weapon

It's Deep Silver in the states and Europe. I don't know how this is a huge secret? Deep Silver's also publishing a "complete edition" for KOF 14 on PS4, Switch and Xbone during the summer.

'01 and '02 had some soul.

KOF14 was made with a small budget and a young team.
Instead of making a good looking game with a small roster like KOF12, they wanted to give everything with a 50 characters roster (which is important for KOF game) and they did one of the best gameplay in the whole series.
Yeah, the game looks like shit, but it's still a good fighting game.

Sadly if a game doesn't look good then most people aren't even gonna try it.

>tentacles
boring desu

>So one wants to watch or play a game where you bainlessly swing and hope you get lucky
>brainlessly swing
>get lucky
Sure, little boy.

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Just no.

Im still pretty sore about the pachisluts eating up space.

it looks too shitty for me to try it and it makes me sad because it looks like its right up my alley. the visuals of fighting games are so important imo, it allows you to be drawn into the grind of hours of training mode and learning matchups

So funny story about this. While filming the guy operating the house pressure was new and super nervous about working with Kurosawa so she really wanted to impress him and really over did the pressure. Kursosawa was surprised and impressed.

>2 and 5 are still the most popular and they are very bright games with comedic elements.
I really don't agree, the music is very somber in 5, a lot of characters get depressing endings, gameplay itself lends to it as your character can get cut in half and bleed out like a pig, hell one of the poster boys is terminally ill and another got an incredibly violent past. It's what makes those wacky moments really stand out and be an eyesore.

Nice.

is nobody worried about the proportions?
it's like sfv all over again.

This. Nakoruru and Charlotte are great. Shiki is cool. Pedobait like Cham Cham and Mina are just grating and Iroha is soulless and is better off sucking dicks in spinoffs. Rimururu is a bit in between good and bad but she also blew in every game she was in. If you're really desperate for cool female characters in SamSho just put Shiki in.

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>Rimururu
>mistake
Do you want an untimely and painful death?

doesn't atlus usually pick up SNK games?

Just smelled some bullshit and had to make you wipe your own ass biased neckbeard loser.

People from all around the world are in feudal Japan and this has been a thing since the very first game. If you were old enough you would know this.

Nice projecting, you fucking mk fatass lmao

SamSho has always been chunky. Did it before Street Fighter Alpha.

Rera is cool too.

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Okay but I'm pretty sure she could have a more sensible garb and ditch that dumbass monkey.

>14 was manufactured to be the lowest possible cost while still cashing out on brand's recognition.
You actually have no idea what the fuck you're talking about. If it was made to be as cheap as possible, why the fuck would they make a massive 50 character roster out of the gate? Why wouldn't they make a much smaller 30 character roster like XIII had? Why would they make a brand new engine for said game when that shit is pretty fucking expensive to do? That's why no one fucking does it anymore and everyone moved to Unreal Engine. Why would they bother to animate everything by hand instead of using shorthand physics objects like Capcom and Tekken do? Why would they do per character lighting to keep the visual look of characters consistent regardless of what side they're on, which is something only fucking ArcSys does (granted, to a more extreme extent)? None of what you're saying makes any fucking sense if you actually look at what they did or how they made the game for more than 5 minutes. It's incredibly apparent that XIV was made with as much attention to detail as any other SNK title, it was just made by a team that was inexperienced at the medium they were working with, and it wasn't made to be cheap, it just wasn't made to intentionally bankrupt the company like XIII was. There's a lot of things that SNK does that genuinely look better than other companies right now, the animation on the DLC characters in XIV is much more impressive than the animation in SFV and a lot of other 2D fighters that use 3D. Oswald is a perfectly faithful recreation of his original sprite in terms of animation, it's like the best transition from 2D to 3D animation that isn't trying to pretend to look 2D like an ArcSys game.

Lmao thanks for proving everything I said, salty bullshitters boy.

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KoF15 will no doubt improve the visuals, it was clear from the start that priority was on translating the core 2D mechanics into 2.5D.

She is but I don't see her getting in ever again on the account of being Nakoruru, even though her gameplay is more than a little bit different.

>It's what makes those wacky moments really stand out and be an eyesore.
I don't think you can just sideline them like that though, because they are so common throughout the series. Even someone like Galford is an american ninja with a ninja dog. The comedic vs the violent is a core element of the series. 5's protag is Tokugawa, who's swords are named after girls he slept with who are always chasing after him. Mina's whole ending wouldn't work if she didn't have a dumb little animal friend who you wouldn't suspect. The violence often contrast the more positive fun elements of the characters which is partly what makes those land.

It is like MK, yeah characters can get chopped in half, yeah many endings have them dying gruesomely. But being silly is still a huge part of the core identity, those elements can blend.

I actually like it because her design pops out, something that's always been a strong characteristic of SamSho characters.

As much as I like the Galfords' themes from 1 and 2, 3 had that extra something.

Also
youtube.com/watch?v=T3CsAH-1yT0

It is. I remember playing through SS6 on the PS2 and the translation was completely fucked.

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There seems to be some interesting female characters in Warriors Rage

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>it has no combos, how is it great?

Who needs combos when one single heavy attack does half an entire lifebar?

>replace the entire roster with uninteresting expies
There's a reason nobody wants to talk about that game.

Played 1 and 2 when they came out and had the Genesis, SNES, and Gameboy versions of SS1.
Always pissed me off that there was no port of SS2 for the SNES or Genesis .

Ya, the translations for all of the Samsho games are hilariously awful.

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please, be in.

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>hilariously awful

I have a classic here.

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This. Hibiki best girl.

There's a lot of reasons. I like a few of the new WR characters honestly but even that aside the game is jank and the only home ports even janker.

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The newcomers weren't that bad

It's had side tournies at Evo every year though
You know that the games on the main stage aren't the only games played there right?

Why is she so oblivious!?!

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Fuck no, she's cancer to fight against and no one disputes that. Fuck you guys who won't buy or play the game either way who keep asking for her.

Could it have Golden Kamuy guest characters or do the time periods not quite match up?

I miss it

Not even close.

Golden Kamuy is early 20th Century isn't it? Samsho is set in late 18th

That user was talking about The Last Blade
Still think GK is set a bit later on though

If SamSho can come back, then maybe...?

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That's off by about 30-40 years still.

Unfortunately, LB isn't coming back, it's been confirmed along with any potential CvS games. The reasons stated was something along the lines that it pretty much wrapped up and they want its legacy to be left in tact.

I don't think SNK would want to have two samurai fighters out right now. Really stretches the product thin.

I wish more companies would have that idea. I respect that.

In MK the majority of silly shit happens away from the main spectacle. Various funny fatalities are optional, krypt shit is optional, hell, only a few characters are allowed to joke. Story and gameplay in MK however play the "edgy violent fighter" thing completely straight, it doesn't juxtapose Kitana being turned into a toddler and Jax losing his arms. Guess that's what rubs me the wrong way in SamSho, this clash between silliness and violence happening simultaneously.

>In MK the majority of silly shit happens away from the main spectacle.
I completely disagree with that. Especially because of the character designs, but also you have some pretty silly moves and voice clips. Intros in the latest games are nearly always jokey banter as well.

Also I don't think you can just claim that is optional and doesn't count. Because a primary reason you used for SamSho being dark is the story and fatalities

I don't think story is optional and SamSho's fatalities are actually a part of the gameplay instead of basically being a post-game taunt in MK.

>I don't think story is optional
Then MK4 and the quippy new games story make it silly alone