#Samurai shodown ii sieger moveset series#

Everyone was armed with something sharp and unpleasant. The game had two things that made it stand out at the time (considering some modern franchises, 'at the time' is going to be a common theme here). Samurai hate evil, trees, and municipal lighting.

In Samurai Shodown, everyone is armed and it really does matter. Other fighting games had characters with weapons, but it was usually only one character and the weapon did nothing to the game balance. Trust me when I say this was a big deal when the game first came out. Samurai Shodown (no, they can't spell) had a very simple premise: stab people until they stop moving. And would go on to become one of the most controversial games in Japanese arcades and certainly the most controversial game SNK put in the arcade market.

#Samurai shodown ii sieger moveset series#

I'm not sure what inspired this particular franchise, but it feels like they looked at their popular Fatal Fury and King of Fighters series and thought 'what if we took that style and had Mortal Kombat levels of violence!' Well, it worked sorta kinda. and for good reason since most of it was crap. Seriously, they had shit you've never even heard of. Capcom's Street Fighter is still one of the greatest franchises ever, Midway's Mortal Kombat got incredible media attention for it's gore, and SNK had a million billion games. Back in the '90s we had a ton of fighting games.