Samurai Shodown for SNES

Review #480

Samurai Shodown

Choose your weapons

SNES 1994 Takara Fighting Fighting › 1v1
Samurai Shodown screenshot for SNES
Screenshot used for review/reference purposes.
3 / 5

Gameplay

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

4 / 5

Level Design

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

4 / 5

Theme

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

4 / 5

Art Style

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

1 / 5

Audio

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

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