Samurai Shodown! 2
Samurai Shodown! 2 is a handheld game in SNK's Samurai Shodown series of fighting games. Unlike its predecessor, it was released on the Neo-Geo Pocket Color system, so its graphics were no longer monochrome…
Samurai Shodown! 2 is a fighting, released 30 April 1999 on Nintendo Switch and Neo Geo Pocket Color.
What Samurai Shodown! 2 is
Samurai Shodown! 2 was released in 1999. It was published by SNK. It is available on Nintendo Switch and Neo Geo Pocket Color.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Samurai Shodown! 2 is a handheld game in SNK's Samurai Shodown series of fighting games. Unlike its predecessor, it was released on the Neo-Geo Pocket Color system, so its graphics were no longer monochrome. It was designed as a conversion from the most recent game in the Samurai Shodown series, Samurai Shodown 64: Warriors Rage, and almost all of its story events, endings and cutscenes are derived from its arcade cousin. Almost all of the characters from Samurai Shodown 64: Warriors Rage are included (the sole exception being Hanma Yagyu). It also re-added two series favorites who were not in the arcade, Charlotte and Yagyu Jubei.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Samurai Shodown series
Samurai Shodown! 2 is the 13th of 31 entries we hold in the Samurai Shodown series. The next entry was Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 in 2000.
What it launched against
Samurai Shodown! 2 launched on 30 April 1999, within three weeks of Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, Star Wars: Episode I - Racer and Super Mario Bros. Deluxe. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, Star Wars: Episode I - Racer, Super Mario Bros. Deluxe.
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