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Samurai Shodown NeoGeo Collection
The ULTIMATE collection is here! Six NEOGEO titles as well as one mysterious, unreleased game are featured! Featuring Online Battle Modes as well as a Museum Mode and Music Player. This collection is a must-have for all SAMURAI SHODOWN fans across the globe!
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2D fighting games were the bomb back in the '90s and now, you can enjoy a great franchise from that era in one convenient collection.
I hadn’t played Samurai Shodown in any form since a torrid weekend with the Super Nintendo port of the original sometime in the mid-90s, but I was always intrigued by the series from afar. To that end, I’m glad that the Samurai Shodown SNK Collection was a 10 in terms of my quest for knowledge and also has some good fighting action behind it—and by default it’s less expensive than buying the games piecemeal in the Archives.
In the early 90s, arcade fighters were all the rage. Companies such as Capcom and SNK had built a reputation as masters of the genre and as a result, aficionados eagerly awaited releases from the Japanese giants. Although not as popular as Street Fighter or King of Fighters, Samurai Shodown quickly gained a cult following due to its weapon-based combat and focus on precision rather than volume of attacks. With the success of the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection and classic fighters being available on digital stores, is Samurai Shodown NeoGeo Collection worth revisiting?
A few years ago, Capcom commissioned Digital Eclipse, one of the best retro compilation developers in the business, to come up with a collection comprised of tons of classic Street Fighter games from the 90’s. The end result was a commendable experience, albeit flawed, as it was filled with repeated entries with minimal differences between each other (FIVE versions of Street Fighter II, may I remind you). Not to mention little to no quality of life improvements, such as a more stable framer...
For its commitment to accuracy, success in diving into gaming history and unearthing new stories, and celebration of everything that made classic Samurai Shodown fun and unique, the Samurai Shodown NeoGeo Collection deserves a perfect score. The games themselves, though, may not have much appeal to people who were not already part of the small but devoted fanbase. This contradiction makes the SamSho NeoGeo bundle difficult to score, but it is definitely worth checking out, even if only for the wealth of features and art, the ups and down in the story of the series' creation, and the novelty of...