Samurai Shodown Hits Wii Virtual Console
The Wii Virtual Console is home to a few great fighting games, even if the Nintendo Wii itself is terribly lacking in that department. If you’re tired of playing Street Fighter II over and over again, head on over to your Wii and buy some SNK-flavored swordplay in the form of Samurai Shodown.
The version being offered through the Virtual Console is the one that was originally released on the Neo-Geo, so you won’t get the heavily pixelated graphics of the SNES take on the game. As you recall, Samurai Shodown — released in 1993 — was one of the first fighting games to equip its combatants with weapons. There’s nothing quite as satisfying as slashing down your enemies as a kabuki warrior or sending in a bird as a little Japanese girl. Samurai Shodown is definitely a step above Art of Fighting.
In the end, I think that we’d all agree when I saw Haohmaru FTW. He’s still one of my all-time favorites.
Samurai Shodown on the Wii Virtual Console will cost you 900 Wii Points.
One Response to “Samurai Shodown Hits Wii Virtual Console”
June 22nd, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Dude!
I used to love this game!
Haohmaru was okay… ; P My all-time fave was(& still is) Jubei!
God Bless,
Yoon
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