(rating will likely change as i put more time into this)

look at what they did to my boy Tam Tam... already kinda mid tier in samsho v special and they remove the few things he had going for him like his jumping heavy slash. Okay, so apparently he still has his heavy slash. This game is way different in controls and systems than the previous games so I actually missed it somehow. Maybe I'm capping...

last boss of arcade mode is mega bullshit. not THE hardest boss i've ever fought in a fighting game, but he's probably top 5 if you don't cheese him out like i did with Mina. i wanted to beat the arcade mode with Andrew, but ended up switching to Tam Tam on the second to last boss and still won despite his mega nerf cause i'm a sir ..

anyway if anyone wants to play this game with me sometime that would be cool. there's like nobody on this game in fightcade. it does have a really insane bigass roster with like every previous samsho character along with a bunch of new guys like anime Andrew Jackson (possibly my main? still need to figure him out lol...) Sieger life baby

IMPORTANT TIP: This game is listed as Samurai Spirits Tenkaichi Kenkakuden on fightcade. i had trouble finding it until i saw a reddit post talking about it.

Upon booting the game up and seeing the massive roster I wondered to myself "Why don't I like SamSho again? This game has everyone! This roster rules!" and upon doing a story mode playthrough I was having a good time. Until the boss fights. In the hiatus between the last time I played some SNK fighters to now, I had forgotten the atrocities that are SNK bosses, and they still sour the single player fun here as they do anywhere else they rear their stupid heads in. Everything from the menus to getting into matches is sluggish and slow, with a lot of loading screens between matches. The gameplay itself is also slow, but thats deliberate and how samsho is usually paced. All in all, if you have friends and are only playing this multiplayer against people, theres a decent enough time to be had here, the roster has literally EVERYONE from the previous samsho titles. If you don't have friends to play against, you can play way more fun fighting games out there.