Hardcore Droid: "SNES veterans may recall 1995’s Samurai Kirby, an 8-in-1 game offering a set of platformer adventures and other mini-games (including) Samurai Kirby...Superstar was ported to the Nintendo DS as the enhanced Kirby Superstar Ultra in 2008—which, perhaps not so coincidentally, was the same year indie developers JForce Games released a remake of Samurai Kirby called Avatar Showdown for the Xbox Live Indie Game platform. Avatar Showdown employs exactly the same setup as Samurai Kirby, with the only modernizing effect being its cash-in on the then-superheated avatar craze. The JForce game topped the Indie Game sales charts upon its release, but apparently, JForce isn’t over their Kirby Samurai obsession, as this year’s Samurai Showdown will attest."
Player 2 takes on the PC version of the Samurai Showdown reboot.
I am actually really impressed with this game. I'm not a diehard Samurai Showdown fan, but this one I've actually had a lot of fun playing. Plus I like that they aren't scared away by SJWs with character designs.
2019 is coming to a close and with it a decade of fighting game play and development. We have come a long way since 2010, when fighting games were just starting to come back into mainstream consciousness after a long slump in the late 90s and the beginning of the new millennium. We are now in a sort of second fighting game renaissance, with multiple major companies and indie developers entering the genre, producing new and innovative games with mechanics and systems we have never seen before.
SFIV hands down. I wouldn't say it revived it but it breathed some much needed new life into the FGC. I only started to get into it properly back in AE but seeing the FGC go from strength to strength has been an absolute joy. The newer people will never know the struggles of being a European staying up to watch tournaments in Tournament Standard Time (2-3 hour delays)
Fighting games release in cycles. Every so often you’ll get a year where every major fighting game producer releases a new AAA fighter to play, swamping consumers with choices. Then, they all take a break for a year, leaning on DLC and letting players dive deep into their mechanics.This was one of those years.
Very proud of SNK for bringing back SS...even if it's horrible unbalanced. But it does make me hopeful for the new KoF.
Mk11 for me. Samsho is pretty good though too, I preordered it just because it came with the season pass and I support that practice on principle.
