Samurai Shodown 3: Garbage A.I.

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Published on May 8, 2021 10:59:44 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irv-MMdkt8I

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Samurai Shodown III (1995)

Duration: 1:49

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In this video you will see this games shameful A.I. button read my every move, completely ignore all frame recovery on their own moves and aggressively chop you down on the games easiest difficulty setting. This alone is enough for me to condemn this game to the level of GARBAGE. It was made towards the end of the arcade glory days and designed to shamelessly eat as much money as you could feed it. This foul practice was not present in Samurai Shodown 1 or 2. Add to this that the game's tempo for 3 has been significantly increased, doing away with the risk/reward, Patience/Punish gameplay that makes the first two games in the series do beloved & timeless. Part two in particular is hailed as one of the top ten best fighting games EVER made! Let's not forget to mention that 3 also is a graphical downgrade from 1&2 both in visuals and in frame rate. 3 took this series down a B-rated dark path that it didn't fully recover from until the reboot in recent years that makes sure to play like the original 2 games in the series. I don't know what was up at SNK when they made this game, but it wasn't good.