Samurai Shodown Anthology is exactly as the title implies - and that's all it needs to be. For the price, you get five great fighting games from the arguably golden age of 2D fighting from a classic developer. Come for the classic experience, stay for the arranged soundtracks. You also get Samurai Shodown 6, which is kind of the benign tumor of the group. (* In the words of the Simpsons' Comic Book Guy. "Best Soundtrack Ever.")
VGChartz's Adam Cartwright: "The Neo Geo was something of an oddity in the gaming market – a family of systems that included the MVS arcade machine, AES home console machine, and a number of short-lived experiments such as the Neo Geo CD and Neo Geo Pocket. What tied these all together were the brilliant 2D titles created by SNK, which included a number of the most enjoyable fighting games of their time. Thanks to the company’s resurrection in recent years and some internal cheerleaders at Sony, the Vita has been home to a great number of Neo Geo games, although sadly it hasn’t received the brilliant Arcade Archives series by Hamster, meaning it's an incomplete library."
The switch is also another portable NeoGeo, lots of incredible games on it. If you like old school beat them ups and fighting games, as well shoot them ups, it's the place to be. The Vita will go down as an incredible piece of tech that got overlooked. Still playing mine to this day.
Cmack of Play Legit Writes "The Japanese have a long history of developing great games, franchises, and consoles, but they also have an even longer history of great warriors"
Honorable Mentions: Auron from Final Fantasy X, Jetstream Sam from Metal Gear Rising
Also:
Date Masamune(Sengoku Basara).
Ryoma(Power Stone).
Bishamon(Darkstalkers).
Damn, the three of them from Capcom, lol.
The definitive list:
1. Oda Nobunaga
2. Hideyoshi Toyotomi
3. Saigo Takamori
4. Takeda Shingen
5. Miyamoto Musashi
My Take Radio's Rich shares his list of memorable fighting games that he feels should be refreshed for the current generation of consoles.
I would love a Rival Schools 3 or an HD remake of Rival Schools 1 and 2. I loved those games and they never appeared on the PSN store. What's up with that Capcom?
I have to say, this reviewer of SSA was very precise and caring on how this title was done. I could tell he's "BEEN THERE AND DONE THAT" when he describe the particulars of the the artwork, characters, the soundtracks of the series. To bad that SS5sp didn't make the cut. SNK of America just LIED about adding it to the anthology, (*UNLESS HE REVIEWED THE PAL VERSION.)Why are some of these gaming site are still saying there will be SEVEN games and not SIX? And I wish he could've been alittle more informative in describing the blood effects and if the killer finishes(SS's 1-4) and fatalities(SS's 3,4)in SS remanded intact.