VC-Reviews writes: If you like SNK fighters and N64 puzzlers you're in luck today. There's two new games that fall into the former category, and one that falls in the latter. I think you can guess the N64 game!
The top pick this week is Samurai Shodown. Instead of making yet another generic modern-day fighter with special moves, like fireballs and such, they decided to make Samurai Shodown, which does pretty much all of those things differently. It's set in the past, you use swords instead of your body and the special moves are far more interesting. The graphics and music are also unlike those of any other fighter, obviously being very Japanese. If you were to get one Neo Geo fighter only, we would recommend it to be a game from the Samurai Shodown series!
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?
