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It is solid without a lot of frills.","2025-01-29T12:55:24.452838-05:00",{"id":590,"logo":604,"name":605,"slug":606,"tags":509,"bluesky":26,"twitter":607,"youtube":608,"facebook":607,"mastodon":26,"muckrack":26,"claimed_at":26,"description":609,"website_url":610,"score_format":47,"average_score":48,"default_timezone":49,"last_review_date":26,"stats_updated_at":50,"headquarters_city":26,"news_editor_email":611,"platforms_covered":26,"claimed_by_user_id":26,"reviews_this_month":17,"active_authors_count":17,"headquarters_country":26,"reviews_editor_email":611,"editor_in_chief_email":611,"published_authors_count":17,"published_reviews_count":17},"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FGameSkinny-logo.png","Game Skinny","game-skinny","GameSkinny","@gameskinny4737","Video game guides, reviews, news, and culture.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gameskinny.com","N\u002FA",{"id":613,"game_id":5,"outlet_id":318,"author":614,"original_score":147,"normalized_score":148,"review_url":621,"review_date":622,"summary":623,"created_at":624,"updated_at":624,"author_id":615,"last_edited_at":624,"outlet":625},71426,{"id":615,"bio":26,"name":616,"avg_score":617,"outlet_id":318,"created_at":618,"profile_id":26,"updated_at":619,"claim_token":26,"article_count":620,"claimed_by_user_id":26},4753,"Lucas M. Thomas",62.983870967741936,"2025-01-26T11:07:31.91334-05:00","2025-02-07T10:47:40.895613-05:00",124,"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ign.com\u002Farticles\u002F2008\u002F07\u002F02\u002Fsamurai-shodown-review","2008-07-02","And that’s what it all comes back to with Samurai Shodown. You should own this game in some format – there’s no doubt about that. It’s a classic fighting design that’s just as venerable as the original Street Fighter 2, and it hasn’t lost any of its fun factor in the past 15 years. The question is just one of personal preference for you, then. If you’re not much of an old-school Neo Geo fan, then you could justifiably get away with only owning this and maybe the original Metal Slug in VC form, and not bothering with any of the physical disc compilations. But if you do have fond memories of that arcade age when SNK’s multi cabinets rotated between Samurai Shodown and several other MVS hits, you’d probably be better off saving your Wii Points and not downloading this one – investing instead in the fuller variety offered by SNK Arcade Classics: Volume 1. The choice is yours. Pick your side in the format fight.","2025-01-30T09:53:04.651884-05:00",{"id":318,"logo":626,"name":627,"slug":628,"tags":184,"bluesky":629,"twitter":627,"youtube":630,"facebook":627,"mastodon":26,"muckrack":26,"claimed_at":26,"description":631,"website_url":632,"score_format":47,"average_score":415,"default_timezone":49,"last_review_date":26,"stats_updated_at":50,"headquarters_city":633,"news_editor_email":26,"platforms_covered":26,"claimed_by_user_id":26,"reviews_this_month":17,"active_authors_count":17,"headquarters_country":267,"reviews_editor_email":26,"editor_in_chief_email":26,"published_authors_count":17,"published_reviews_count":17},"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FIGN-logo.jpg","IGN","ign","ign.com","@IGN","We're all about video games, movies, TV, and comics!","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ign.com\u002F","Los Angeles",{"id":635,"game_id":5,"outlet_id":636,"author":637,"original_score":305,"normalized_score":174,"review_url":644,"review_date":645,"summary":646,"created_at":647,"updated_at":647,"author_id":638,"last_edited_at":179,"outlet":648},30719,34,{"id":638,"bio":26,"name":639,"avg_score":640,"outlet_id":26,"created_at":641,"profile_id":26,"updated_at":642,"claim_token":26,"article_count":643,"claimed_by_user_id":26},1225,"Damien McFerran",82.94117647058823,"2024-11-27T15:24:00.316294-05:00","2025-10-24T13:06:07.218755-04:00",17,"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nintendolife.com\u002Freviews\u002Fneogeo\u002Fsamurai_shodown","2008-05-30","With Fatal Fury, SNK proved it could compete with Capcom, but with Samurai Showdown it showed it had the talent to surpass its rival. 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We are the most visited #Nintendo site in the world.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nintendolife.com\u002F"]