Samurai Shodown (SNES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

A playthrough of Takara's 1994 versus-fighter for the Super Nintendo, Samurai Shodown.

Played as Nakoruru on difficulty level six.

This port of one of the true Neo Geo classics tends to get dumped on a lot, but I've always enjoyed it. It absolutely shows how the SNES was aging, but it retains much of the animation, voice effects, and all of the characters from the original (including Earthquake). The voices sound absolutely horrendous, though - I can only imagine that to fit them all in, they used super low-quality samples and and tried to make them sound better by drowning them in extreme reverb.

I'd take the Genesis version over this, though - the SNES game has much smaller characters, tinnier sound, and a problem with slowdown - even if it does include Earthquake. Of course, there's no point in comparing any of them to the 3DO, since it wins over all of the 16-bit ports in every way.

I used to play SS and SS2 fairly often at the local McDonald's, they had an MVS cab in the corner (next to a Wild West Cowboys of Moo Mesa machine!), and I'd always go straight to it when we'd walk in. Good memories, great game.
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