Also, you can play with a buddy and just button mash your way through it and have a blast together. It is a fun game that is very addictive and you will want to master it. If this is a franchise you are new to, I would recommend that you skip the first one and jump straight into this. First time I saw this in arcades in the mid-90s I was amazed at how much better it was than the first game. I think that Samurai Shodown 2 is a truly awesome fighting game. Sure, it does nothing to the gameplay, but it is a nice touch and helps the stages feel more “real” if you know what I am saying. I liked how there were many breakable things in the stages.
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The artwork in this game is just amazing, the characters have a ton of animation and each stage is full of little details. What makes them stand out is that SNK quality.
Like in other fighting games in character has their own backstory, design, moves and so on. Pretty much the whole roster from the first game is here along with 6 brand new characters. Although, against the AI button mashing on the higher difficulties is not going to get you anywhere as the AI can be super cheap! However, the gameplay also suits people who just want to button mash and have fun. Things feel much tighter and more responsive and as a result, the game is way more fun.Ī huge part of what makes Samurai Shodown 2 is the fact that the fighting is very deep and you can certainly master a character like you would in Street Fighter. You have many new moves that you can do such as a parry which was if I am not mistaken one of the first times this was used in a fighting game. SNK enhanced pretty much everything that could be enhanced with this game. I said that once you play this there is no going back to the first game and the reason for that is the gameplay. Plus, each character has their own story and ending so you will want to beat the game with everyone. However, the setting and the presentation really do make you take notice of what is going down. Big evil wanting to take over the world, blah, blah you know the deal. The game is set just a year after the first game and Samurai Shodown 2 introduces a new big bad for the characters to take on.
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No part of this site may be reproduced without permission.I like how SNK introduced some fun lore into the series here.
Registered trademarks and tradenames are property of their respective owners. It’s actually still available to buy on GOG.com, at the time of writing. Samurai Shodown II‘s been re-released a number of times, including for Virtual Console, and for PC. It also contains some unintentionally hilarious, badly translated text, which will probably warm the cockles of your heart… Samurai Shodown II contains stunning graphics and animation, and fantastic gameplay, and is up there the very best Neo Geo beat ’em ups – or indeed the very best Neo Geo games of all-time. There’s also an innovative ‘defensive parry’ in Samurai Shodown II, which – if you it use correctly, at the right time at the last second – you can deflect an opponent’s attack, stunning them, and leaving them wide open to counterattack for a few seconds. After that: it’s lightning-fast action, as the screen zooms in and out to keep everyone visible while you hack each other to pieces.įighters use various weapons, but can have them temporarily destroyed by an opponent with certain special moves, forcing them to fight without a weapon for a short time. The size of the character ‘Earthquake’, for example, is a sight to behold – showing off the sprite-chucking abilities of the Neo Geo.īefore a bout: the fighters are introduced, then there’s an “En Garde” message, and then the round begins. There are 12 playable characters in total, some of them impressive. SNK‘s Samurai Shodown II is a legendary fighting game for the Neo Geo, first released in arcades in 1994, then later for home consoles.Īfter part one, the developers rebuilt the game from the ground up – tweaking the previous cast, adding new characters, more moves, a ‘POW’ meter for super special moves, better controls, and many other things.
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