Samurai Shodown
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One clean slash can swing an entire round in Samurai Shodown, and that single idea changed what a fighting game could feel like. SNK's 1993 arcade hit traded long combos for patience, spacing and devastating weapon strikes, with slow motion emphasizing every heavy blow. It collected Game of the Year honors from Gamest and Electronic Gaming Monthly, and Takara brought it to the Genesis in North America in 1994.
The setting is feudal Japan in the late 1700s, where the sorcerer Amakusa threatens to plunge the world into darkness. The Genesis roster brings home most of the arcade's colorful cast: the wandering swordsman Haohmaru, the nature-loving Nakoruru and her hawk, the ailing iaido master Ukyo Tachibana, the American ninja Galford and his dog Poppy, the French fencer Charlotte, Hanzo Hattori, Jubei Yagyu, Kyoshiro Senryo, Tam Tam, Wan-Fu and Gen-an Shiranui. Every fighter carries a weapon, and the presentation is full of personality. A black-clad referee raises flags as hits land, and a delivery man dashes through the background tossing items such as bombs or health-restoring chicken into the fight.
The Genesis version makes its own trade-offs. The giant Earthquake and his stage did not make the cut, and the arcade's signature camera zoom gives way to a fixed, close-up view. That shrinks the playfield but shows the characters large and detailed, and GamePro actually preferred it to the Super NES port for that reason. The heart of the game comes through: a rage gauge that builds as you take damage, blade clashes that can send a weapon spinning out of a fighter's hands, and a final boss that two players can pick without a code.
Samurai Shodown launched one of SNK's longest-running series and helped define the weapon-based fighter. On the Genesis, it is the cartridge that put Haohmaru and company on a home console with real visual punch, and a fascinating counterpoint to the Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat carts that dominated the fighting-game shelf at the time.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1993
- Publisher
- Japan Home Video Co.
- Developer
- SNK
- Genre
- Fighting
- Players
- Single player, Multiplayer
About the game
In early Japan, a man named Shiro Tokisada Amakusa preaches a heretic religion. Little does anyone know that Amakusa is really a servant of the evil Ambrosia, who took over Amakusa's body. Ambrosia wishes to shroud the world in darkness. Now, choose between 12 warriors (and 3 bonus characters) to fight for the honor of destroying Amakusa, and fulfilling a mission.
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