Samurai Shodown for Genesis

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Samurai Shodown

Choose your weapons

Genre: fighting - 1v1

Publisher: Takara

Year: 1994

System: Genesis

Gameplay Score: 3

Gameplay Notes:

Easy to pull off special moves 12 fighters that all feel distinct and interesting Some strange but unique features like grappling that happens when you lock swords with the opponent or a special move that I couldn't figure out but my opponent used to clobber me more than once. Weapon based fighting creates various amounts of reach for your attacks Refined gameplay

Level Design Score: 4

Level Design Notes:

Lovely backgrounds with tons of animation Story, versus, and the beat everyone with 3 min mode seen in other SNK games No practice tho

Theme Score: 4

Theme Notes:

I really liked the Samurai setting. Maybe a bit too japanese for my taste but it was unique anyway. I loved the weapons based theme

Art Style Score: 4

Art Style Notes:

Beautiful game drawn graphics and animation Character models are varied and interesting Sprites are very small unfortunately

Audio Score: 1

Audio Notes:

Music is strangely very quiet. It's also very slow and folksy japanese stuff that isn't upbeat enough for my taste. Sound effects are very poor quality and sound like theyre being played on the other side of a door. Very muffled Definitely the most disappointing aspect of the game

Overall Score: 64

Review ID: 1217