Sound effects are simple but they do the trick. Other than that, each character has some voiced lines, which also adds a bit of quality to this title.
There’s also a Japanese narrator for the story parts and the commentating that goes on, which is a very nice touch for a game such as this. The music feels like it properly fits the setting and it does get you in the mood to duke it out with other experienced fighters. The sound design of this reboot is quite nice. We are not sure if this is to load the different character models and the environment, but it gets tedious very quickly. We also noticed that the game has extremely long loading times for its levels. Nonetheless, the game looks good, but don’t expect it to shatter your expectations. We reckon SNK does not have the same budget any more than when they were still a leading company in the gaming industry. The backdrops look nice, and there’s a proper variation, but even so, things feel a tad too static. The character models have a certain cel-shading surrounding them, but we can’t help but feel that things are somewhat simplistically handled. The game looks quite good, but in some ways, it also feels dated. In the end, you’ll just have to beat up the different cast of fighters, to eventually end up with a real boss battle that is not like the other battles. Of course, the story is often only a small motivation to keep fighting, but it’s nice that it’s present. Like in many fighting games, the story depends on which character you pick. We were quite eager to see how this series would fare with our modern standards in mind. The game first appeared on consoles, only to arrive on the Epic Games Store recently. Nonetheless, SNK is trying its best to revive the series with the reboot in 2019. The game was very simplistic for that time, and while it was a great fighting game, by today’s standards the mechanics would have been very dated. The game series transported us back to an imperialistic Japanese setting, in which different samurai battled to prove their worth. Samurai Shodown is a series that first came to life in 1993.
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