13th October 2019, 11:20 PM
Xbox One
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Samurai Shodown (2019) - $40, new. Gamestop has cut the price on this one, so I decided to get it. Well, the game is as promised -- it's a very good, classic '90s style fighting game, with okay but not great 3d graphics and great, traditional gameplay. I like that it doesn't have a focus on nearly impossible (for me) combos; it's mostly just carter-circle and half-circle moves. This game plays like something from the '90 but modernized a bit, and I can see why it has been talked about as being a much more accessible game than most of the top fighters, because it is. That doesn't mean it doesn't have a high skill ceiling, though, because it clearly does. The AI is mostly easy, except for the super-frustrating final boss (classic SNK boss stuff there!), but in the so far somewhat rare cases where I actually find another person online to play against I mostly lose... but feel like I kind of have a chance, something I wouldn't in a lot of the 2.5d fighters around these days. So yeah, this is a really good game which I will definitely be playing quite a bit more... though it would be better if more people were playing it online. (I presume things are better on PS4, but I don't have one of those so oh well.)
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Samurai Shodown (2019) - $40, new. Gamestop has cut the price on this one, so I decided to get it. Well, the game is as promised -- it's a very good, classic '90s style fighting game, with okay but not great 3d graphics and great, traditional gameplay. I like that it doesn't have a focus on nearly impossible (for me) combos; it's mostly just carter-circle and half-circle moves. This game plays like something from the '90 but modernized a bit, and I can see why it has been talked about as being a much more accessible game than most of the top fighters, because it is. That doesn't mean it doesn't have a high skill ceiling, though, because it clearly does. The AI is mostly easy, except for the super-frustrating final boss (classic SNK boss stuff there!), but in the so far somewhat rare cases where I actually find another person online to play against I mostly lose... but feel like I kind of have a chance, something I wouldn't in a lot of the 2.5d fighters around these days. So yeah, this is a really good game which I will definitely be playing quite a bit more... though it would be better if more people were playing it online. (I presume things are better on PS4, but I don't have one of those so oh well.)