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Samurai Shodown: The Motion Picture (Japanese: SAMURAI SPIRITS 〜破天降魔の章〜, Hepburn: Samurai Spirits: Haten Gōma no Shō) is a Japanese animated television special based upon the 1993 SNK video game Samurai Shodown. It was released by SNK in association with Fuji TV and NAS and animated by both Studio Comet and Studio Gazelle.
Samurai Shodown, known in Japan as Samurai Spirits, [a] is a fighting game series by SNK. The series began in 1993 and is known for being one of the earliest in the genre with a primary focus on weapon-based combat.
Nakoruru (ナコルル, Nakoruru) is a fictional character in the Samurai Shodown (Samurai Spirits in Japan) series of fighting games by SNK.She is one of the series' best known and most popular characters alongside its main protagonist Haohmaru, and has been introduced in the original Samurai Shodown in 1993.
Samurai Shodown! 2 retains most of the gameplay elements of its source game, albeit modified to work within a 2D setting.. The Slash and Bust modes for each character were retained, with all of the moves from the arcade kept intact (except for Yuga, who had a third form in the arcade, which was mostly excised).
[7] All characters from the first two Samurai Shodown games make an appearance, either as a temporary helper, plot device, or enemy. [8] Combat includes an option to input the joystick motions for the various special moves manually, as in the arcade games, rather than simply selecting the moves from a list. [9]
Samurai Shodown was a commercial success, becoming Japan's sixth highest-grossing arcade game of 1993 and one of America's top five highest-grossing arcade conversion kits of 1994. It won several Game of the Year awards from Gamest , Electronic Gaming Monthly and the European Computer Trade Show .
Samurai Shodown (known as Samurai Spirits in Japan) is a 2019 fighting game developed and published by SNK for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Stadia, Xbox Series X and Series S, Android and iOS via Netflix Games, and Windows as an entry in the Samurai Shodown series, as well as a reboot to the series.
The Last Blade series is seen as a spiritual offshoot to SNK's popular Samurai Shodown series, due to it being a similar 2D weapons-based fighting game. [2] It also took over several elements from cancelled Technōs/Face's Dragon's Heaven (which tentatively was named DarkSeed).