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In the arcades of the 1990s, is there a cooler existence than SNK? There is always something in the Osaka team's game, which combines impeccable style with deep technology and is constantly swaggering. No wonder people like Garou: Mark of the Wolf and Doomblade still talk with humility.

Samurai knockdown review

Developer: SNK
announcer: Athlon games
Play platform: PS4
Availability: Xbox One and PS4 will be available on June 25 and will be available on Switch and PC later this year

It is no wonder, then, that after years of turbulent company quarrels, SNK's name returned correctly in 2016, arousing excitement. King of Fighters 14 is a great way to take note of this occasion, an intricate extension of the series, and now we have something more ambitious. "Samurai Shodown" is a relaunch of the series, which helped build the SNK brand, despite its steel-like coolness, dating back to 1993. I am happy to say that this new product is absolutely outstanding.

It helps to stay true to the core purpose of the original content, and even to many subsequent games. For more than 25 years, many works have entered. "Samurai Shodown" has been a series of experiments on its system, but its backbone has remained basically unchanged. The struggle here is more thoughtful and influential, with major consequences for those who make mistakes. With one breath, more than half of the health devices can be destroyed with one blow.

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This timeout is indeed true, and it feels absolutely cruel. This barbaric behavior is caused by ridiculously overstated violence-dismembered and gushing blood geyser, smearing your character on crimson spots when causing damage-and offset by the beauty of serenity. There are technically complete fighting games out there, but when it comes to style (and uninterrupted commitment to it), Samurai Shodown has almost the upper hand, and its rough rendition of Japan in the Sakoku era vividly shows exquisite details. .

The 3D models have dense ink contours and parchment textures, giving them a unique 2D style, while cherry blossom, woodcut art, hanafuda cards and cabaret uki theater Popular music Color and elegance. This is a comic book approach that gives a real sense of position and gives Unstoppable Aesthetics to General Samurai.

Find more faith in the sword of conflict in battle-and much of the fun of Samurai Landing. Basically, this is a fighting game, using SNK's standard four-button settings, and the main thing is to rely on weapons to make the hit high, the consequences fast, and participate in all carefully designed system sets.

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When you are punished, the rage meter will fill up, and when it is full, it will push you to a more aggressive state. If you want, you can spend the meter for a one-time attack, which will destroy more than half of your opponent's life-a move that has good movie talent because the background becomes dark red in monochrome when the warrior is tall-but once you spend After that, the whole battle disappeared. There are also some supercars, which are equally destructive and are limited to one use in any given battle, which makes the matchup in Samurai Shodown more vivid and easier to understand.

You can shoot down weapons from fighters, making them vulnerable (better still, you can shoot down weapons from your opponents and then land them behind you so that when they raise your fist and hit you, you Can be strictly guarded against despair). There is a counter thatSimilarly, as long as their timing and execution are in place, disarmed players can grab the weapon with their bare hands and throw it aside.

It allows you to meet slowly and deliberately, and it can poke off defense and ensure that you have a good opponent. Compared to many contemporaries, the samurai will be calm and solemn. It's also super fun, the balanced system is unresolved, always pleasantly surprised, and the proper mechanics are used to ensure that battles are often full of awesome moments.

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All the richness shown at important moments, and inevitably when you fight, Samurai Shodown's feature set is not as generous as its style. There are only about 16 characters here, which seem insignificant when placed side by side with characters like The King of Fighters, but they are a bunch of unique ones with some flavor. Favorite of the 13 returnees, including 3 fresh combatants in the form of Wu-Ruixiang, with traps and fireballs, Darli Dagger (zig-zag makes her look like she just slipped in from Monster Hunter) and personal Favorite Yashamaru Kurama (waving part of the savage Nagasaki monster. Basically, this is a slim choice, although you can rest assured that no matter what you choose, it is a worthy fighter.

However, the lack of functionality is unforgivable. In a continuous battle, the story mode is actually nothing more than a handful of cutscenes. This is an effective tutorial, but the fees are low, such as time attack and survival mode. It's also very thin online, with very little content other than casual and leaderboards (however, if you're lucky, I do like to skip the rankings at the beginning of an online career to make sure you have the choice to face the challenge) best as soon as possible) .

The story of innovation is also different, inspired by the career of Virtua Fighter 4 Evo, using the Dojo model-many taste -This is an inspiring machine learning that allows players to upload and download representations of other players, or if you feel a little cynical, you can use the inflated Unreal mode. However, I prefer the former, and although it's somewhat unreliable and spamming from content that has been uploaded too many times, it does seem to be a good simulation of online combat.

This is the real shining battle of "Samurai Shodown", in which the approachable, deep and talented. Putting the packaging in places like Mortal Kombat 11 or Street Fighter 5 in the full version, Samurai will start short. However, its style is too exaggerated and is undoubtedly a swaggering outdated old-fashioned SNK. How glorious it is.