Talk:Samurai Shodown

Inspiration?

I think Samurai Reincarnation was a big influence on this game. Sonny Chiba's portrayal of Jubei Yagyu seems to have been a big influence on his portrayal in the series, and it Shiro Amakusa as the main villain...

Canon

Is Samurai Shodown 6 canon..? It looks negligible, as Ukyo is alive, as well as Gaoh. It seems more like an compulation game than an continuation of the storyline. -Zero^Talk 20:49, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Samurai Shodown 6 is not canon. :) you also forgot Mina's alive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.78.80.249 (talk) 21:49, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Mobile Games?

There appears to be two Samurai Spirits games in Japan released by SNK Playmore for iMode mobile phones... http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/mobile/i-mode/king-apri.php

The first is サムライスピリッツ－魔界輪廻記－ (Samurai Spirits -Makai Rinne Ki-, which means something like "Chronicle of Hell's Endless Cycle of Rebirth"). It appears to be a top-down adventure game, similair to Legend of Zelda. It seems to have been released in late 2005. Looks like it has a storyline. Some screenshots can be found here: http://watch.impress.co.jp/game%2Fdocs/20050704/snk.htm and http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/mobile/ez-brew/brew-apri.php.

The second is 侍魂～四面楚歌～ (Samurai Spirits ~Shimensoka~, which means something like "Surrounded by Enemies on All Sides"), which appears to be a sidescrolling action game, with Haohmaru and Nakororu playable. It appears to have stages with various generic enemies (it shows generic shinobi enemies), with bosses at the end of each. You can gain experience and level up. There is also a final boss of some sort. Judging from the text bubbles, it also has a storyline. It uses the same Japanese logo that the HNG64 games used. Screens at http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/mobile/i-mode/special/shimensoka.php and http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20051121/soka.htm.

No idea if they really bear mentioning. There's also those dating sims and stuff, which I don't think are technically part of the series, but these two seem to be. WtW-Suzaku 09:49, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Character Section?

Just curious, but what happened to the character section? YeldellGW 07:14, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

I concur. I believe the character section had no right to be disabled and redirected here. The S 04:39, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry; I didn't read that right the first time. I thought it said something else. I also believe that the character articles should be separate from the main article. There's too much history for the characters to try and cram it all on here. Sake neko 12:18, 03 September 2007 (UTC)

I think it's been removed again. TwilightDog 21:49, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Even if we merged the character pages together with the main article, it still makes the characters themselves seem baseless. Does anyone want to try and follow the format that Guilty Gear has right now? I prefer that over trying to cram all the characters together for the sake of beefing up an article. Sake neko 16:34 PM, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Cramming all the characters here is not an option... The point was that characters who appear in only one game don't need an article; i.e. they should be mentioned in the article of their unique game only. Those who appear in more games can be mentioned here as part of a global plot summary. Kariteh 08:55, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps there ought to be a separate characters article for the entire series. Character bios can be as short or as long as necessary. Some of the characters appearing in the games preclude the existence of the series, such as Jubei Yagyu and Hanzo Hattori. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.164.82.11 (talk) 03:50, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Character articles are not made just like that because someone thinks it would be nice to do so. Articles must follow the WP:N and WP:FICT criteria. Kariteh 08:07, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Then it's notable at least in the cases of Haohmaru and Nakoruru as they are "mascot" characters to SNK-Playmore with an extensive history inside and outside their games. Sake neko 01:17, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

As long as these two articles provide sources to back up this claim, then yes it's fine for these two. Kariteh 08:23, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

I don't want to be a jerk here, but these stupid attempts to 'organize' fluff like this only hurt users in the end and satisfy no one but the morons who think it's a great idea to remove information for what they consider to be important -- not taking in to consideration the informaiton the USER may want to find. It's frustrating to have someone ask you a question you know you could find the answer too in a series of well done articles only to find they were all meaninglessly removed with not even a character summery page. This is just embarrassing.--Kayin 20:48, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Whoa, what happened. Imagine my surprise when I go to look up information, that I know I have seen before on Wikipedia, yet this time nothing is to be found. And yeah, I agree with everyone else here, it's utterly ridiculous that all the individual character pages redirect here. Even the least popular characters have been in two or three different games, and the more iconic characters have been in A LOT of different things. And I don't just mean the SS series. They've been in the CvS series, SvC Chaos, all the Card Fighters games, Battle Colisseum... And yet, I appear to be unable to look up information about these people. It's especially hilarious when thinking about anyone actually listing the characters in the main series article. Not only does almost every character have a half-dozen games worth of personality and story, but each of them should also have (and used to have!) a good trivia section. Crossover appearances, cameos, relationships, signature moves and fighting styles, the basis behind their designs (often being historical figures), and any other interesting facts. Thinking about it, I'm not surprised that I can no longer find information about the characters. No one is foolish enough to want to bloat up the main article so hideously. I utterly fail to see what's wrong with the series article listing any impact and popularity of the series, the individual game pages listing the innovations and roster for each game, and then each character having a page which describes the character and what they've been in. It would be well-structured, informative, and convenient. Crazy concepts, I know. And I can't say much about all this "notability" stuff, but on the other hand, what importance did Samurai Shodown itself ever have? The games never inspired anyone to cure cancer, that I can recall. The games themselves aren't notable in the least. It's a niche market for people who enjoy playing video games and like good character designs. So should we just tear down the entire series as a whole? I propose that, instead of deleting information, we actually keep it around so that people may utilize it. Xerox1919 2:06, 25 October 2007

Although I agree with you, this has been happening all around wikipedia for all fictional characters alike due to the new deletion policy. [1] It really would take a character to "change a person's life" to make any of the characters "notable". The only ones I can slightly say that for are the original characters from SSV since Nobuhiro Watsuki has been inspired by SS series and designing those guys was his dream come true (and even then barely). To be honest, I'm a little dinged that the characters are being wiped out because they're not a "Ryu" or "Chun-li". It seems popularity = notability sometimes... Sake neko 06:11, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Well, I think nobody with a working brain should object if List of Samurai Shodown characters were to be reverted. It keeps all the characters on one page, and as long as the cruft is kept down, we don't really need much more than that. Now being an amorphous video game glitch myself, I may be a bit biased; I don't like to wildly point fingers at human users, but it seems to me that TTN seems to be on a personal vendetta against this information being here on Wikipedia, whereas most other people seem interested in keeping it around. If this is the case, I suggest that he grow aTHIS CONTENT REMOVED IN THE NAME OF WP:CIVILecause Nakoruru and Haohmaru each garner tens of thousands of hits on Google, and are pretty much 90% SS-related (that's just the romanized forms, mind you, not the Japanese names which return a bit more hits). The information is indeed notable; if there's a problem with the information, it needs to be fixed, not removed. -MissingNOOO 14:31, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

BOY, WIKIPEDIA SURE IS GREAT —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.74.198.219 (talk) 19:05, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

• As I've said time and time again, a majority of Wikipedia editors seem to have a general bias toward anime, comic books, video games, et cetera, and utterly destroy any articles they themselves don't deem "noteworthy". This is simply their opinion, which holds no distinction on article editing. I went into further detail on this rubbish here The S 14:29, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Update on page status! The page of characters is under going construction here [2] and needs help to meet Wikipedia standards. Please check the discussion page to see what needs to be done to keep it an article. Hopefully, we can get our characters back! Sake neko 04:57, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

List of Samurai Shodown characters is no more too. --84.234.60.154 (talk) 13:43, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Irony!

"However, lacking grammar and grasp of English first of all became evident in story-telling cutscenes, which rival AYBABTU pages long" makes no sense. I would fix it if I knew what they were trying to say. Recury 19:25, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Too much opinion

There are entirely too many sentences that start with "some think," or "many believe." Please edit the speculative introductory comments. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.149.151.59 (talk) 20:10, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

To save programming time?

"To save programming time, SNK left out the 'w' in the word 'Showdown' so the number of letters in 'Spirits' matched 'Shodown'. This would allow some letters to be changed with little effort instead of having to also add another character."

Adding a character to a string is not at all time consuming. It's actually just as easy as changing a string in MS Word. I haven't played the game yet, but I would guess that the name only appears as a sprite anyway. If time was taken to develop the sprite, why not just draw in a 'w'? "Samurai Shodown" is just typical SNK engrish. nflenz December 6 2007

It is time-consuming when you have to re-factor some of the program to change the animation. Keep in mind that Neo Geo games have all languages on one cart (basically changing languages based on the “soft DIP” settings and what country the BIOS reports), and that nearly all the Neo Geo’s graphics involve moving tile-based sprites. It’s not a string. -BRPXQZME (talk) 12:36, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Samurai Shodown Sen

Should we create an article for it now or when the game is released? Sake neko (talk) 17:55, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Added a page with future game label; needs work Sake neko (talk) 20:11, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

List of Samurai Shodown Characters

If you're going to attempt to salvage that, you really need to trim it down. You need to get rid of the infoboxes. They take up way too much space and they're just unnecessary. If it's important, include it in the prose. You should try to get them all down to two paragraphs (three for the major characters). Remember that the sections are to describe the characters in general. The main game articles should take care of the plot. Also, characters that only appear in a few games should just redirect right to their game of origin. There is no need to list them all. The end result should be between fifty to sixty KB. TTN (talk) 23:41, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

I like the suggestions but I'd rather they be shared with everyone and not just me. I've had that trimming idea for sometime now and even though there's that wikiBold and size policy, a lot of people may not understand the reason for a trim. It may seem futile but I'd like to repost your suggestions on the article's discussion page because 1) it'll give time for anyone else to notice and see if they really care and 2} to see if anyone else will help with the change. Frankly, it's a little demoralizing to see that most of the newer edits made by other editors have been over the more trivial details. Is this all right with you? Sake neko (talk) 09:06, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Do whatever you would like. TTN (talk) 13:49, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

first release date

the official release dates are here http://neogeomuseum.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/catalogue/index.php mvs version was released earlier — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.83.35.43 (talk) 22:14, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Rumor: New main game and anime in 2017

Just rumor at the moment but there is talk that a new Samurai Shodown game is in development and will launch in 2017 and graphic-wise, like KOFXIV, it will be 2.5D. SNK is also working on a new anime alongside the game.195.67.78.50 (talk) 08:47, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

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List of Samurai Shodown characters, vandalized few years ago, needs to be restored

Last version from before the nothingness: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Samurai_Shodown_characters&oldid=753901914 Mind you Nakoruru/Rera and Haohmaru have since then became standalone articles. SNAAAAKE!! (talk) 22:15, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

All the false redirects such as Galford D. Weller (etc.) to "Samurai Shodown#Plot" (despite zero instances of "Galford" in this section) need to be fixed too while working on repairing the damage done. SNAAAAKE!! (talk) 22:21, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

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