Many of these special moves can be taken away from you in an instant slash at a foe attempting the same blow as you, and your weapons clash together, prompting you into a desperate button mash to gain the upper hand. That, or pelt them with cannonballing attacks from afar, or plague them from the skies with her pet hawk. The battle-scarred Jubei fights with twin katana, that he uses to become a whirlwind of cutting steel while the lithe Nakoruru uses a combination of her grace and speed to dart beneath defences and plague them with viper-like strikes with her concealed dagger.
Hanzo is a black-clad ninja who can vanish in a puff of smoke leaving nothing but a substitute block of wood in his wake while the toad-like Gen-An can spew streams of poison for unwary foes to stumble into and use his razor claws to bundle into foes like a buzz saw. The cast is filled with both those you would expect and those you would not. But it’s not always about clashing katana and Eastern sheen: Charlotte is a French crusader clad in bulky torso armour and armed with a rapier who might well find herself in the dusty wasteland of Texas, besieged by winds and rolling tumbleweed while facing off against Earthquake, a big, fat Yank with a spear on a chain and a recent diploma from a newly-founded Ninja Correspondent School who has no problems with grabbing his always-smaller opponent by the scalp and farting a cloud of noxious, health-plummeting gasses in their face. Haohmaru’s in it for nothing but the fight: to test himself against any and all, while Ukyo is more poetic and reserved, more concerned with the fleeting beauty of life. The first outing starts out solid it primarily follows the pride-filled Haohmaru’s rivalry over the more subdued and laid-back Ukyo who both bring their own individualistic aspects to the game’s heavy samurai vibe.
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SNK have always had a habit of throwing out excellent 2D fighters that unfairly get eclipsed by Capcom’s efforts (and fairly by Arc’s!) but the Shodown series has never really got the credit it probably deserves. If it sounds like I’m a fan of this game, it’s because I am. Mixed in between fluttering wind pipes and backdropped by vibrant and lively stages, players did their level best to stab the hell out of each other. Released back in 1993, the first Shodown took a distinctly oriental approach, mixed its twelve-strong cast between the serious and the cartoonish and did what it could to produce a more tactical tournament fighter. Samurai Shodown is what Soul Calibur would be if it played in 2D and hated you more. " Samurai Shodown is what Soul Calibur would be if it played in 2D and hated you more.
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