SNES Longplay [240] Samurai Shodown
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Pretty good port, but doesnt reach the technical excellence of the NeoGeo original. -
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I'll give Ryo, the award of the best announcer in early SNK games.
I used to play this on the SNES back in the 90s and it was pretty good translation from the arcade to a home system all things considered. The graphic and music were close to the arcade and the game play intensity was spot on. The only thing missing was the scaling effect and I really did not miss it that much.
I remember playing this on the SNES. But unlike the original, most ports of this game, including the AES version of this game, had the fatalities removed and blood changed to a different color or none at all. The reason that SNK did this is because they don't want any controversies similar to Mortal Kombat over here in the U.S. It is still a good version of the game despite it doesn't have the cut in half fatalities and blood in it.
Ooohhh yeeaaa ❤️❤️❤️.. I finally found it. A neighbor of mine had the lit Nintendo set up with all them games. We couldn't afford it. So I was always at my friends house watching 👀👀.mortal combat, street fighter and all the goodies. But the Faszination with this one was always of the hook . Didn't know what the game of my childhood was called but now I'm happy. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Check out Samurai Showdown II. It's one of the greatest fighting games ever. It's a work of art.
That character select tune is timeless. Feels like being in rural japan fighting against other skilled samurai
LA CANAL DE JAPANESE SAMURAI
At least they had all the characters for this game. Genesis was missing Earthquake, the Introduction, missing moves and it's locked zoom in, meaning all the sprites look bigger but the stages are smaller because of it. Also some endings for certain characters were removed.
+Theshark15z SNES version also censored any form of the death in the game
Theshark15z I'd rather have bigger characters than more background. SNES version was awful.
the sega genesis version is also censored in one way: the character quotes are altered to not make references to hell and death
yeah bigger characters and areas to see more of genesis flaws and lack of color palette :)
@@DaedalosC9 the Sprite are near equal to neo geo, and the gameplay is more close in terms of jugability.
I'm a samurai! A rebel guy. We must part.
SNK, the Holy Grail of 2-D fighters. Samauri Shodown, World Heroes, Fatal Fury, and so many others were some of the best times I had playing fighters. Sure the SNK bosses were cheap and unbeatable, but two player games kept the fun going when the game became unbalanced, and it did quite often. Takara's home port wasn't half bad either.
One of my favorite additions to the game was the song that played at the conclusion of the final round. I usually forget how that wasn't in the arcade version.
hell yeah, gotta love the SNES games system.
Love both the Anime and game.
32:02 THAT soundtrack!!!!
The complete OST is amazing
I wish they would have ported SS2 to SNES. That's one of my fav. fighting games.
There is a bootleg. Choppy af but its called soul edge vs samurai. Its basically SS2. Stages, gfx and all but there are also Soul Edge characters added in.
There was talk of it, but it never came to be.
Epic game, pure nostalgy! I'll play it now! LOL
This and the Genesis versions both have their shortcomings, but both are still fun to play. Of course the original arcade Neo Geo version, the system the game was built for, rips both of their bellies open, Kyoshiro style.
SNES > Geo Neo
@@camulodunon SNES sure did have more of a diverse library, the Neo Geo home consoles could've used more RPG's, outside of the Samurai Shodown RPG, and adventure games.
@@Bloodreign1 wait there was a Sam Sho RPG? Sounds like it would be bad. About as bad as the 1994 Sam Sho anime. Tell me about it.
@@camulodunon It's actually pretty good, not sure if it's ever been fan translated or not, but I don't think it has. It's definitely a beautiful game, and is on the Neo CD, PS1, and Sega Saturn, all Japanese releases of course.
i remember when i was at my cousins house and my uncle brought out their snes and had this
My first fighting game
BTW, What's with the "SINCE 1788" on the VS screen?
This game takes place in 1788.
this is as close to the arcade as you can get when it comes to 16-bit ports hands down especially sega cd version
So he fights mai at the end o.O
wtf... I don't remember that many frames of animation being cut out! And the muffled sound effects! What are we playing on, a Sega Genesis?
Sound samples on the Genesis are better known for sounding like sandpaper than being muffled, but okay.
The 16 bit consoles weren't arcade hardware, and no way could retain all the frames that the arcade version had. There's even more animation frames cut out of the Genesis version, even win poses there have less frames in them. Some like Haohmaru's aren't even complete win poses, he doesn't even bow to his opponent after a win like you see in this version, and the arcade version.
Considered the "small" size of 32megs, it's a well done port with good, colorful graphics, also the majority of the sounds and overall game content is still included (the Neo Geo original has 118megs, so it's no contest). You have the outzoomed view all the time, some missing animations and cutscenes and some censoring, but the typical feeling and gameplay of the original is still there. The 24megs Genesis port on the other hand has the inzoomed view all the time, which I would prefer, but Earthquake and even some moves are missing, also the gameplay isn't as good and responsive like the SNES version. Takara did a good job with the convertion, just like most of the time.
There's a lot more missing to the Genesis version than Earthquake and his stage, trust me. Those zoomed in sprites came in at a hefty price, a dear price that involved removing a LOT of content.
@@Bloodreign1 indeed, I regognized a ton of missing animations in the Genesis version, and even missing moves. The Sega CD version is even worse, that's unusual.
While the NEO GEO version was made for this game, it was way to expensive during that time. So it was either the SNES or Genesis. The SNES version is miles better mostly because it’s a complete game with all characters and movesets. I could care less about the graphics, no blood, and no zooming cause this game already looks pretty great on it’s own.
Gameplay and features is all it matters to me. And since Genesis is missing a character and stages, there is no reason to get that version unless you’re a graphics maniac.
SEGA fanboys will always say that their graphics are the best and that Earthquake is boring or not needed. Which is not a really good excuse to have cut content from the Arcade.
SNES wins.
You won't believe it but once I got labeled as a "clown" in a Spanish videogame forum by the administrator because he got enraged when I decided to end the stupid debate about what version was better by listing all the pros and contras of the two versions. I did it honestly and the Snes version won by far.
He was a huge Sega fanboy and he couldn't bear the "check mate". That ended with me leaving the forum due to the cult-like environment. Nobody likes getting labeled as a "clown" in the profile just for arguing logically. That's insane. I knew that the next step was banning me so I decided to leave before that to not let him feel the pleasure of kicking me out. But the truth had been written down and proved: the Snes version was better.
That was around 2005. And now one only has to come to these videos to see the Sega fanboys still trying to convince themselves about the impossible.
It's a common trait in the Sega fanboys: they don't follow logic. They just keep saying "Sega version is better" without looking the evidence against that, which is obvious.
They do so with all the ports of all games. I don't know why Sega attracts that bigotry. Specially when it comes to the Megadrive/Genesis they get specially fanatical and mind-blind. Maybe they need that attitude to compensate the shortcomings of their favourite console, like a man with sexual complexes about his private parts usually tries to compensate them with a boastful attitude.
@@asamiyashin444 It's because their favorite company got waxed by Nintendo, and Sony, in every console generation. Sega could never get the generation victory in any generation of consoles they were involved in. They still think the console war is alive, and that one day Sega will surpass Nintendo in console sales. For them, they are bitter, very bitter that once the SNES started hitting full gear, the Genesis could no longer compete with it (and hence why the 32X and Sega CD, both failures, came to be). SNES worldwide sold over 9 million units more than the Genesis, with Europe helping Sega to close the gap somewhat after Sega got their asses handed to them in America, and got destroyed in Japan. Without Europe, that sales gap would've been far, far wider.
I too have made a list somewhere on UA-cam on the shortcomings of the Genesis version compared to the SNES and arcade versions, people want to call me a fanboy for it. But they don't know that I also collect Genesis games alongside SNES games, that would ruin their labeling of me seriously if they saw the games I own in person overall, especially for the SNES, Genesis, GB, and NES.
To be honest the Genesis version is alright, but seems to not feel quite like the arcade version, while this SNES version is tons more faithful to the Neo Geo arcade original. The Japanese SFC version surprisingly has even more animation in the backgrounds than the US SNES version, and waaaaay more than the Genesis version has. They try to convince themselves that their version is better, and it's hard to find anyone that has studied both versions enough to actually tell the truth like you did. the SNES was a powerhouse, and you have sites like Sega Retro, who did a comparison, and absolutely pulled fake numbers out of their asses to give Sega a fake advantage in every area between the consoles.
@@Bloodreign1 Yes, it is scary how bigotry can make some people stop thinking.
@@asamiyashin444 Sadly it only continues to get worse, especially with Sega fanboys, or fangirls, as in the case of VC Deicide purposely handicapping comparison videos against SNES, while making Genesis games look better in her videos, and her comments section is pretty much where the enttire Sega fanboy/girl cancer seems to live at. Her comments section is a regular cesspool, so once got a plugin that allowed me to permanently block her channel on UA-cam from appearing in my feed, it was all good as I'd not have to ever see her trash content ever again. A lot of console know-nothings stay in her comments section, a regular assortment of idiots who still post Sega wins, when Sega games aren't even being compared. They complain about the Nintendo half of the console fanbase, yet I see nothing but class from that side of the spectrum, it's the Sega fanboys that are toxic as hell, what they claim the Nintendo fanboys to be.
Of course if we are looking at the modern times, at Nintendo still in the console and games business, while Sega has become the bitch of Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft, making games for all 3.
It's Samurai Shrinky-Dinks!
10:00 Psuedo fatality.
21:35 too
aaaa que tiempos 💗
What level? Who is in the stone, the same devil?
He was referring to Jubei Yamada. The cookie man.
Hey, this is what I was talking about. Look at the final slash against Charlotte at the end of the battle. A glitch in the game? We all know that was supposed to be the arterial blood spray fatality.
SNES version video comments: 50% fans enjoying the video 50% sega fanboys crying
Genesis version video comments: nobody cares to watch and casual comments like "GENESIS DOES WHAT NINTENDON'T HUEHUEHUE"
NEO GEO fans: Your system can't handle the game
The snes fans do this everytime...
But seriously snes has so much censorship , small and ugly pixel arts. Glad they fixed it in neo geo
@@Rustycube88 the neo geo is the original
@@elianandres4326 wait didnt SNES came out first? [Trought i prefer neo geo more(
As SNES Art of Fighting 1&2 both had scale & zoom effects, to this day I still wonder why this port of Samurai Shodown did not? I'm sure they could've done it with mode 7.
Then Earthquake would've had to be axed out. Takara decided not to use scaling as they wanted to keep the game intact for the SFC/SNES version.
@@Bloodreign1 A wrong decision :(
Mode 7 is used to transform backgrounds, not sprites. It could have been achieved with special chips like the FX though.
@@Gladson art of fighting has scaling, I dont remember if they used somekind of chip, but I don t think so.
@mat mathew AOF 1 and 2 for the SNES do have some simple scaling but it's a zoom out effect, the standard frames are zoomed out when characters are far apart so I suppose it wouldn't be a good idea here since the standard character frames are already too small and would be even smaller.
Seriously, why are the sprites sooo small in these SNK fighters on SNES?
Just this game only, and it was done to allow Earthquake to be playable, and to allow more animation and background detail to be present. If the sprites were made bigger, tons of corners would've had to been cut like the Genesis version (that game has a shitload of cuts, yet a lot of people don't realize it seriously hurt that version) You need to look at the game more closely, you'd see why.
Smash bros samurai
Final boss is ridiculous on expert difficulty. It's unbeatable.
I remember buying this game back in 1994 and I was at die hard samurai showdown fan and the fact that they came out on different ports like the Genesis and the super nintendo I was absolutely floored. So me owning a super nintendo get the super nintendo port and boy was I disappointed the sprites were small there was no a
Scaling in-and-out but I wasn't surprized that because the superintendentt couldn't do that although arch of fighting was able to do that just barely it was limited to its color plate with samurai showdown was a big left down for the super nintendo believe it or not the Genesis version is much better and I'm sorry I didn't get it
You sure about that with the Genesis version being better?
Because boy oh boy when you realize how much content was cut from the Genesis version to get those bigger sprites, then you'd be heavily disappointed. The Genesis version is the second worst port, only to the disappointing Sega CD version, and maybe, MAYBE a hair ahead of the FM Towns version, which required a TON of RAM to get the game running at decent speed.
Those who say the Genesis version is the better one, really don't bother to look at the things missing under the hood. It's the sports car that has no engine, no transmission, nothing. The SNES version is the economy car that has everything intact under the hood, and actually runs. A lot of people are absolutely blind to the things wrong with the Genesis, and there is a LOT wrong with it, just many stick their fingers in the ears, close their eyes, and go "nyah nyah nyah can't hear you" when you explain it to them.
SNES version isn't perfect no (far from it), but does not bear the issues that plague the Genesis version.
And LOL yes, the SNES can do scaling, look at the 2 Art of Fighting games to see it zoom in and out on sprites. I tell you, fanboys are blind as a bat.
congratulation,many thanks for your playing XD,Engrish at it's finest.
Man, those sprites are TINY, even compared to the GEN version.
SNES went with filling the entire background to capture the presentation instead of having 50% more zoom on the characters.
1Smoking Lizard
The backgrounds look pretty well on both version though
milkmanv1 That was the only thing I didn't like about the snes version, but everything else was fine.
+milkmanv1 Correct, this SNES ROM installment was a budget build to save on rom. They can't afford $$ to shell out on a cartridge based home console. Even though that the SNES has more virtual ram than the Neo Geo. Capcom had the same issue with trying to build the X-Men Vs. Street fighter to a PSX.
Maybe, those sprites fits for the GBA...
This game should be called SD Samurai Showdown, looks almost as a chibi GB Fighter
Not even a little.
Look up samurai showdown NEO geo pocket. A chibi SamSho exists lol
@@djhero0071 There's two Game Boy ones as well that use chibi sprites and artwork.
It could have been a great port if they just did bigger sprites and non censorship! I really think this is a decent port.
Had they gone with bigger sprites, you'd have the same situation as the Genesis version, loads of things cut out, not just Earthquake and his stage.
mortal kombat 2 was uncensored on snes so why was this censored half a year after mk2?
i guess it also had to do with mk2 being such a huge game in the arcade
Shoe3003 The home version of "Mortal Kombat II" on the SNES was released after the "Samurai Shodown" console ports.
Here's the kicker, NOA isn't at fault here, the SFC version is also censored, blame SNK likely on that one.
Bloodreign1 Takara did this port not SNK.
SixPack Shakur
Neither Takara or SNK made this port, Monolith corp did it, Takara was the publisher
32 megas. Why Takara? Why? I had Snes Art of Fighting 1 and 2, so I was very hyped when I found this 32 megas catridge and bought it whitout even test it. I went back to the store the next day because I was very sure the catridge had some kind of problem. Ooh I was so dissapointed.
AoF had less animations in the backgrounds and fighters, SS had a ton more. Scaling would've had to come with sacrifices, ones not worth making if it meant a ton more content would've had to be axed out. AoF 1 and 2 could get away with scaling on the console as there was far less animation in those 2 games than SS had in it. You gotta study the SNK fighters to see stuff like this, and I have put time into many of them as I own many of them across various consoles.
@@Bloodreign1 then, those sacrifices should be done. Even scaling wasnt important. Just see the 24 mgs Genesis port.
The best fighting game ever made end of talking period lol
You think this even with the SNES version? :-o
@@inceptional Considering this version plays faithfully to the arcade version, while the other 16 bit version does not, that is a resounding YES.
29:39 DOLBY SURROUND INTENSIFIED.
please someone tell me how to do the "pow" moves....
The only purpose the POW meter served in the first game, was to make your moves more powerful once you built the meter up enough. The second game started the desperation move power meter.
Those sprits are soo tiny for this game it looks funny in my eyes, i know that sometimes small is very cool but not for this game but better fitted for atomic runner for the Genesis!
Bigger sprites would've meant no Earthquake and shitloads of animation cuts and details in the background lost, no thanks.
What are these little sprites worthy of an 8 Bit game ???
Those small sprites were to help maintain a lot of the detail of the arcade game, the Genesis version used larger sprites sure, but lost a ton of content in the process.
Adorava esse jogo.
LOL At 24:10
"No, I'm Not Related to that guy (Geese) in Fatal Fury!"
don't you mean Jubei Yamada, and not Geese?
First of all, Did Jubei breaks the forth wall?
Second of all, Did Wan-Fu learn from James Bond's quote of "The Name's Bond. James Bond."?
24:10
The blood was a little too orange, and the sprite's should have been bigger, but overall not a bad version.
To prevent the law from being pissed off by the amazing violence, blood was banished in place of orange juice.
para su epoca,fue muy buena conversion,tomando en cuenta las limitaciones de la consola y cierta vensura por las "fatalities" ,eso serian susdebilidades,pero aun asi,era muy entretenida y divertida,y mucho mejor que la de Sega Genesis
+revueltas28jr La versiones contenidas en el juego Samurai shodown Anthology son muy buenas, son versiones muy buenas de los 5 juegos arcade más Samurai Shodown 6; no sé si la has visto son buenas conversiones, es como jugar en las maquinitas. Muy buena versión.
+Henry Castellanos González si la he jugado, aparte que esa versión la hizo la misma SNK, y esta de SNES es por Takara, obviamente que la versión de antología es mucho mejor definitivamente
+Henry Castellanos González También es muy buena la conversión a la 3do.
Jugar la version de Snes era una ofensa por lo ridiculos que se veian los personajes de ese tamaño. Aun con faltantes, la version de Sega Genesis era graficamente mas cercana a la de Neo-Geo, de hecho, los sprites de los personajes eran identicos, ni Capcom logró eso con Street Fighters II
@@carloscaribe7740 No, no eran idénticos. Les faltaban muchos golpes y colores. Por no hablar de que faltaba Earthquake. Caballo grande ande o no ande. Esa fue la mentalidad de los creadores de esa conversión. Era una chapuza. Pero tantos años después y el fanatismo ciego de los segueros resentidos sigue dando caña en internet.
El de Snes tenía los personajes pequeños pero matones. Estaban casi todos los golpes, todos los personajes y tenía más colores en la paleta. Eligieron calidad por encima de tamaño bruto.
I know, that bad thing is Earthqruake not in the genesis with Large graphic. No Zoom in and out. :-(
Harumaru is the fucking shit. Thank you for this.
Videogameadventure is right. The negativity that violent video games sparked, mostly due to Mortal Kombat, was the reason they decided to censor the game for MOST platforms.
i actually think the music was done more effectively on this version than the neo geo version despite a disadvantage in capability.
those blazing flame pyres in gen-an's stage are unmatched on the neo-geo aes system, with good speakers and stereo output you can almost feel the scorching heat coming from them
Yeah but earthquake's SNES theme was trash compared to Neo geo
I liked to play with the Indian guy.
Very Nice!
Ippon!
Hilarious dialogue and music
So much censorship in this version... I mean, look at their quotes and compare with the original.
This is why Neo geo is my fav
This showcased the worst thing about the SNES, in my opinion: That terrible "reverb" effect, which was essentially a stereo delay not an actual reverb effect.
I'd love a hack that would get rid of that effect.
💗💗💗💗💗
I forgot they were zoomed out in this. The Genesis actually beat this version.
That's not the reason at all. It didn't have any blood in it because of the Nintendo no blood policy.
Nope, because the SFC version is also censored, and NOJ wasn't NOA when it came to that. SNK was likely behind it. I know about the SFC version, because I own it.
Ah.
Samurai Goku 🤣🤣🤣🤣 llamaba a Haohmaru
Break dance practice, UA-cam
Snes port was better genesis
Bleh. Glad I never played the game on the home consoles. The NEO GEO is so much better.
I agree
Samurai Shodown SNES Sprites RPG
Quiz Es Un RPG Mas Que Súper Mario RPG
@Jon Verdad
wtf is with sound
Lol what kind of fucking ending was that???
dwarf fight, wtf
There's a reason for it, bigger sprites would've meant tons of corners would've had to been cut like the Genesis version did.
*S E R V I N G T H E D A R K G U Y*
Robot samurai
He must've been playing on easy mode.
Horistizam
6:12, nunca pude vencer este personaje, siempre se me hizo muy comolicado, una vez estube a punto de ganarle, pero me gano en el ultimo round😔 (tengo 14 años💀)
Achei a do snes melhor na jogabilidade
tem todos os elementos do arcade, inclusive a jogabilidade, gráfico show, som show tb, pena os personagens serem pequenos, poderiam ter tirado o earthquaque e deixado os outros maiores assim como fizeram no genesis, péssima escolha fez essa empresa, se tivesse feito isso daria até pra colocar o zoom q o snes tem capacidade pra fazer, prova disso é q tem esse efeito no art of fighting, é uma pena, mesmo tendo todos os elementos do arcade não dá pra jogar com esses bonequinhos não, prefiro jogar o do mega todo cheio de defeitos mas pelo menos o boneco é grande!!!
I love SNES but NeoGeo is superior
Well yeah I mean the Neo Geo was a top of the line arcade for it's time. cost a lot more than a SNES too! It was like the rolls royce of gaming at the time,
Same
Full of ad longplay
AHAHAHAH
i dont like this game at all.. good to know that i didnt missed a thing.. !
Sega genesis winnn
If you like a game with only 50% of the arcade content.
Background detail, lost in a lot of stages, look at Hanzo's stage, the clouds do not move, nor does the fiery background
Winposes for each character, limited to 1 when they have up to 3 in arcades, and 2 on SNES
Character animation cut down considerably
Everyone's ending chopped in half
Amakusa in flame form after the 4th fight, GONE
Amakusa transformation after beating him 1 round, GONE
Character names not spoken when they win
Ref/announcer speaks even less than the SNES version
Medium attacks, GONE
Earthquake, GONE
Earthquake's stage, GONE
SNES version:
Bonus rounds don't change
Ref/announcer has missing speech, but has more than the Genesis
1 of each characters winposes got cut, but has more than the Genesis version
I swear a lot of you are blind as shit to things like this. The small sprites can be less detailed sure, but thanks to them, a lot of the content is intact. Someone else mentioned the AoF games, but you must realize the details and animation in those games are not as numerous as Sam Sho, which has a LOT of animation in the game.
Que fea version....Está mejor la de sega genesis
Ladies & gentlemen... The worst console version of Samurai Showdown ever.
NeoGeo > Sega Mega CD > MegaDrive > Snes.
The Mega/Sega CD was pitiful on this game, missing voices, more so than the SNES and Genesis versions, no ref to moderate the matches either. No thanks. You also forgot to mention one, the 3DO version. Fatal Fury Special on the MCD/SCD also suffered from lack of voices, plus Jubei's stage contained no paintings to smash, something the SNES versions of 2 and Special, and the version of 2 on the Genesis had. Plus atrocious load times, something people loved to complain about with fighting games and CD systems (unless it was Saturn and 4 MB carts, where loading was non-existent for the games that took advantage of it).
These days the series can be played via Sam Sho Anthology on PS2, Wii, and PSP, which are the top versions due to being emulations of the AES versions. Plus the load times are quite minimal.
you must be shitting me right now
NeoGeo > SNES > Genesis >>>>>>> Sega CD
Pure nonsense, what matters are the graphics, despite have some limitations, and the closest graphically is the game in sega genesis.
Spot the sega fanboy
I totally agree
this time sega genesis win...
Not really, too much sacrificed in the Genesis version just to get bigger sprites. It's a fun port to play, but when you see the little things not named Earthquake missing, you start to scratch your head and wonder why they went with bigger sprites.
Neo Geo wins it all
@@sladejosephwilson2300 i agree again
Sega Megadrive/Genesis never had a single port better than the Snes. Never. It is a worse console. That's why fanboys are so bigotted. They need to compensate boasting what the console lacks. It's tiresome watching Sega fanboys barkings still in 2020.
@@asamiyashin444 I could point out a million thing that are wrong with your statement there, but whatever you want to believe.
Such a terrible port of an awesome 90s fighting game. Sure,the SNES version had all of the characters and the intro,but the small fighters make it look ridiculous. The Sega Genesis port is so much better in my opinion.
Neither Genesis nor SNES port were anything to write home about. You wanted to play Sam Sho in those days, you hunted down the arcade version, these days you hunt down the Anthology on PS2 or Wii (or you could import Sam Spirits Fencing Pack for PS1, with 1 and 2 on it). Genesis version was far from perfect, there's no defense for either 16 bit port, it came down to developers, Saurus did the Genesis port, and the company was a sister company to SNK (Art of Fighting 2 was done on SFC by Saurus as well, and it's splendid).Both 16 bit versions are fun to play, bias be damned, but neither will ever hold a candle to the MVS/AES. NGCD, PS1, or Anthology versions (which are AES versions emulated). I happen to own all ports save for the PS1 version (SFC, Genesis, Gameboy, PS2), and to say one 16 bit port is better than the other is blasphemy (other than World Heroes, but that one falls on Sega for having a 1 man team rush it out).
Trust me, the Genesis version is no better off than the SNES version, missing attacks, less background detail, no intro, no win portraits for the characters, only 1 win pose per character with weapon in hand, like Nakoruru, who doesn't twirl her blade and have Mamahaha land on it during the first round, Haohmaru has 2 win poses (one is unique to this game, but could be an incomplete animation as he doesn't bow to his fallen opponent like he should
), but should have 3, plus a weaponless one (and one without, SNES had two to three win poses per character, plus one without weapon in hand) no Earthquake (the Sega CD has the same issue, plus more, like no announcer, no Kuroko to officiate the fights), music that restarted every round, a feature I disliked in Samurai Spirits 4 on the PS1 (yet I still bought it), it had it's shortcomings. It was also censored a bit as well, yeah it had the cut in half fatalities, but that doesn't make it superior. And the SNES had it's share of issues, censorship, and smaller sprites dampen, but don't destroy the mood. Both games maintain the most important aspect of the game, the atmosphere, and of course, the swordplay.
Pure nonsense, what matters are the graphics, despite have some limitations, and the closest graphically is the game in sega genesis.
Graphics matter none in a game, that's being small minded. Gameplay and replayability is what matters most. Kids today use the graphics thing, and it's annoying. I've literally named a bunch of things missing in the Genesis port, and you're telling me the graphics make something the winner? Hardly, the game could look beautiful, if it plays like shit, then the game is shit, if the game looks ugly, and it plays well, the game is good. Tell that to someone in their 20's, don't tell that to someone who grew up before the 16 bit era, who has watched games evolve, then de-evolve since the near beginning.
The sega genesis version responds correctly to control and has better graphics. Small lost are not enough to make a version worse graphically better.
You call better graphics to lack of decent palette color and terrible textures? And you call "small lost" a whole character and awful soundtrack and all i mentioned before?
The backgrounds are even more vibrant and detailed in the snes version
Granted u have bigger sprites in the genesis but it just shows on detail how bad it looks
Sounds horrible argh!!!
Surround sound makes this sound better, Dolby surround was built into this game. The games reverb is a bit of a downer, but otherwise the music is great.
Bad soundtrack and sprites
Bad soundtrack? You'd be surprised how beloved it is, but it can't hold a candle as expected to the Neo Geo OST, or the NGCD AST.
Bad Soundtrack? This time the reverb of the SNES is an advantage. Gives it a dark ambient feel. Increases the atmosphere of the games ost.
Bad soundtrack? Meh only earthquake... others are better than neo geo. But yeah sprites looks shitty in this version