Samurai Shodown Launches In The West Next Month On The Nintendo Switch

The game looks pretty good, I've been liking what I've seen from others playing it. I'm hoping it continues to pick up more steam.

Awesome. Looking forward to this. Now I wonder if I should hold up or pass on Fantasy Strike?

Awesome! Already pre-ordered, all the gameplay for the Switch looked great imo, excited to play!

Does it have wireless play?
I'm assuming we will also see a physical release here in US? If so that will be a day one pick up.

I've been eagerly awaiting this one, so is it getting a hard copy or what???

Jesus almighty. Under Night In-Birth finally hits Switch on the 20th, then this on the 25th? Man prepare your wallets...

I'd recommend carefully reading the reviews on this game before you buy it. When it came out for PS4, and instantly ran out and bought it, and kind of regret doing that. In some ways it is pretty good: great moves, good controls, it definitely has the SNK fighter feel to it. But the character roster is REALLY SHORT. And it doesn't offer much to keep you playing unless you just want to fight random people online over and over. I got bored of the game in record time.

@Neopolss

Ah, so its almost like the old Neo Geo CD load times, almost.

That's pretty authentic, yo!

Screw February 25th, just got mine today from overseas, of course the only downside to getting this early for my region is that the DLC characters can't be bought and download yet even though they are already shown to be in the game. Damn SNK even with the delay you still want that extra cash do ya? Anyways the game is still fantastic whether you get it for the DLC characters or not.

@Neopolss Nope the load times are still stupidly long on the Switch version as well but considering I got like 10 other systems that had bad load times anyways this I got use to so it's no big deal to me. Of course you had to look at the bright side, at least it's not a lagfest like the awful Google Stadia port which still kept the long load times in addition to lag and latency issues.

This even has authentic Neo Cd loading times, i love that attention to detail.

Great franchise! Love it!

Day one for me

Very good game. I have it on Stadia. I like it.

FINALLY! I thought I was going to die due to the wait. Preloading on Friday.

Has anybody heard about the collection that is supposed to be coming out?

too expensive. its like $20 on other platforms

@TheFox is there any kind of story mode? That's typically why I like fighters

@Mando44646 too expensive. its like $20 on other platforms

The other platforms:

So whatever did happen to that $20 bucks price tag?

Yes there is a Story Mode but unlike other fighting games nowadays Samurai Shodown Story Mode is basically just an Arcade Mode similar to the good old days. There's no character interaction most of the time and you're basically picking a fighter and fight your way to the final boss. The story unfold the same way any other Samurai Shodown game in the arcade did, short cutscenes will play and you get to see an ending of your fighter once you beat the final boss.

@TheFox That's exactly what I want to do, fight (or get my butt kicked more likely) online. I pre-ordered deluxe and it was also 15% off. This was a no brainer for me. Can't wait.

@retro_player_22

Sorry, ~$30 these days. Though it was $20 on PSN over the holiday and I almost bought it due to that

Examples:
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@cptspaulding If that's what you're looking for, they you'll love it. It's gameplay mechanics are very good. I still think they could have put more fighters into it though.

I see it at 10.1 GB at the moment on the US e-shop. Do you get any pre-order bonuses with this? Thought I saw some game included in a previous post

@Kilamanjaro Yes, you get Samurai Shodown 2 NeoGeo Pocket Color Edition as a pre-order bonus.

@cptspaulding cool! Thanks for the answer. Do you know if this is the case for both physical & digital versions?

@Kilamanjaro If you bought the limited edition Shockbox Gold Edition from pixnlovepublishing.com then you get both the game and the Pocket Color version on physical but if you pre-order the digital version on the eShop you should get the digital version of the Pocket Color game for free once the base game came out. If you're like me and bought the base game physically from Play-Asia, then you're not gonna get the Pocket Color version like at all as they won't email you the code and the Pocket Color version is not available at the eShop.

@retro_player_22 thanks for clearing that up! Sucks about the play asia situation, really excited for this release now, thank you!

@Supadav03 You probably should go for this. IMHO Fantasy Strike doesn’t look all that great. This is coming from someone who only enjoys fighters on a very casual level as well.

ooo...I am not a huge fighter gamer, but this looks really interesting. As a casual fighter gamer, would this be something to enjoy?