Samurai Shodown has at all times been top-of-the-line, if not the most effective weapon-based preventing sequence. Most individuals know the sequence from the arcade or house console iterations, however the sequence has additionally been featured on SNK’s handheld gadgets. The Neo Geo Pocket and the Neo Geo Pocket Shade performed host to some handheld SamSho video games. Now, newcomers to the franchise can expertise a type of early handheld titles on the Nintendo Swap: Samurai Shodown! 2.
The gameplay can be very acquainted to anybody who has performed typical, console/arcade variations of Samurai Shodown video games. The fight is quick and frantic, and every character has their very own weapon that gamers should grasp. Fan favorites similar to Haohmaru, Genjuro, and Ukyo are featured within the recreation’s roster. With 16+ characters, there’s fairly a bit right here for a handheld preventing recreation. Gamers might want to counter combos by their opponents or block incoming assaults in the event that they need to final within the later encounters and beat the sport’s boss. For a handheld preventing recreation, there’s a whole lot of variety to the gameplay. Enemies may be surprised, flipped in mid-air, and countered even after powering up a ending transfer. I wasn’t too eager on the music within the recreation, however it was positively serviceable for the {hardware} on the time.
The sport encompasses a typical single-player mode to play by means of, full with a boss battle on the finish. Those that need extra of a problem may even deal with the sport’s Survival mode, which assessments your skills working by means of an onslaught of opponents. After every opponent is defeated, you’ll regain a little bit of your well being earlier than transferring on to the subsequent spherical. Preserve surviving for as many rounds as you possibly can! There may be additionally a multiplayer mode that makes use of the Swap’s display in a novel method. It should break up up the display in half with one participant on one aspect of the Swap and one other participant on the opposite aspect (just like the two-player desk arcade machines). I wouldn’t advocate this on the Swap Lite, however I’m positive it’s a lot better on the common Swap, particularly since you can detach the Pleasure-Cons for extra consolation.
From a presentation perspective, the sport runs superbly and has some sharp-looking sprites. The colours actually pop on every stage whereas the characters themselves are a bit duller to assist differentiate between them and the background. Animations are all fairly good, and I might acknowledge lots of the strikes from the console/arcade SamSho video games being reproduced fairly faithfully on this moveable rendition. Ukyo’s basic throwing of the apple and slicing it in mid-air might be my favourite of the bunch.
General, Samurai Shodown! 2 has come over fairly nicely to the Swap. If you happen to’ve performed the unique, you’ll discover most the whole lot is in-tact save for the buying and selling card ship/obtain system (which is comprehensible). Playing cards can nonetheless be collected in-game, simply not traded to mates from what I might inform. I can consider some higher preventing video games on the Swap that I might most likely buy first however for a stroll down reminiscence lane or to see a basic moveable preventing recreation in motion, Samurai Shodown! 2 is definitely a enjoyable novelty.
