22nd July 2011, 8:45 PM
PS2
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Samurai Shodown Anthology - Samurai Shodown IV (Rimururu, difficulty 4), Samurai Shodown 6 (Chamcham, difficulty 1). SamSho IV is my favorite game in the series, and the one I'm the best at by far; I'm really not that good at the other ones. There really are some significant differences from title to title in this series, being good at one doesn't mean you will be good at all of them. And indeed, after hours of trying I just wasn't able to beat the final boss of SS6 with Nakoruru at diff. 4, so I ended up giving up and playing on the easiest setting. At that difficulty, at least, the bosses are beatable. On 4, though... this game is just crazy hard! It's a very good game, better than SSV for sure (though not up to SSIV's level), but the bosses are absurdly hard on anything above the lowest settings. SSV is similar, if I remember right from the Xbox version. (And on that note there's not much reason to play SSV here, the XBox version has a bunch of added features, while SSI-V here are essentially just Neo-Geo romdumps with an added color edit function. SS6, though, is a new game.)
I then tried to play SSIII, but yeah, I'm terrible at that game too... it plays oddly, it's got some mechanics that aren't in the other titles. Of course, the same is true for V and 6. I'd just need to spend some time with SSIII in order to get good enough to actually compete against the difficulty-4 computer. maybe I will, we'll see... I do like this series quite a bit. The Last Blade is better, but SamSho's a great series even so.
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Samurai Shodown Anthology - Samurai Shodown IV (Rimururu, difficulty 4), Samurai Shodown 6 (Chamcham, difficulty 1). SamSho IV is my favorite game in the series, and the one I'm the best at by far; I'm really not that good at the other ones. There really are some significant differences from title to title in this series, being good at one doesn't mean you will be good at all of them. And indeed, after hours of trying I just wasn't able to beat the final boss of SS6 with Nakoruru at diff. 4, so I ended up giving up and playing on the easiest setting. At that difficulty, at least, the bosses are beatable. On 4, though... this game is just crazy hard! It's a very good game, better than SSV for sure (though not up to SSIV's level), but the bosses are absurdly hard on anything above the lowest settings. SSV is similar, if I remember right from the Xbox version. (And on that note there's not much reason to play SSV here, the XBox version has a bunch of added features, while SSI-V here are essentially just Neo-Geo romdumps with an added color edit function. SS6, though, is a new game.)
I then tried to play SSIII, but yeah, I'm terrible at that game too... it plays oddly, it's got some mechanics that aren't in the other titles. Of course, the same is true for V and 6. I'd just need to spend some time with SSIII in order to get good enough to actually compete against the difficulty-4 computer. maybe I will, we'll see... I do like this series quite a bit. The Last Blade is better, but SamSho's a great series even so.