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^ Samurai
Spirits Zero JPN ^ |
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^ Samurai
Shodown V USA ^ |
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From the back of
the English version of SSZ (Boldface, font size, exclamation
marks, italics, sentence parsing and caps are all Playmore's)
YOUR DESTINY?
IT'S ALL IN THE BLADE, KNAVE!
Which path will
you take?
That of Chivalry? Or Treachery?
After seven years,
relive
the Samurai Shodown experience, back on NEOGEO!
To start with, you'll find a total of 24 warriors
with 4 new characters.
Then you'll thrill to the new "Sword Gauge" and
"Concentration One" game systems!
The Sword Fighting Game
"Samurai Shodown V"
Is Coming For YOU!
We're surprised as anyone that this particular shipment
arrived so quickly but we'll process and ship all preorders
for the English version of Samurai Shodown V today. We
haven't received all of our Japan version shipments just yet
but we'll be able to do a few preorders today and the rest
will ship out on Wednesday or Thursday of this week once
everything else arrives. Posters and flyers will be shipped
separately to our customers in cardboard tubes on
Wednesday-Thursday. The flyer is really a mini-poster with
artwork that is different from the big poster.
Scoping out the game inserts this morning, it seems that the
English version is the superior one. Great, catchy cast
artwork on front and similarly good artwork on back. On the
Japanese insert, we just see an angry Haohmaru gritting his
teeth which tells an incomplete story at first glance. He's
mad at someone but we don't know who until we flip the game
over...
Our initial run this morning was satisfying but this ain't entirely
the Samurai Spirits that we've gotten comfortable with in
the past few incarnations. The controls are somewhat similar
with A and B used for mild and middle-strength attacks. Push
down on both buttons to perform a strong attack. Press C to
kick or move joystick + C to throw down. When D is pushed by
it's lonesome, meditation is activated but there's a few
moves that may be pulled off when D is coupled with a
joystick direction. The meditation meter will take a little
getting used to but a well of spiritual power may be
diverted from the rage meter and stored separately. Once
enough meditation has been shored up, the fighter may be
sent into Enlightenment Mode where the game moves in slow
motion.
There's a total of 24 characters in the game with sixteen familiar
faces such as Basara, Charlotte, Genjuro, Nakoruru, Rimururu,
Ukyo, and many more returning. Amakusa's missing, though.
The eight new characters to the Samurai fold are Kaja,
Kusare Gedou, Lera, Mina Majikina, Rasetsumaru, Un-Rei,
Suija, and Yoshitora Tokugawa. |
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