SSV Special a reality!

[Goemon]

"According to 1up.com:

SNK Playmore plans to release an upgraded version of Samurai Spirits Zero (Samurai Shodown V to American players) in Japanese arcades this spring, according to order solicitations from arcade distributors. Samurai Spirits Zero Special will feature adjustments to gameplay balance based on player feedback from the original version, as well as new playable characters.
Those characters may cause some balance problems of their own, though. They're all boss characters -- Amakusa Shiro from the original Samurai Spirits, Zankuro from Samurai Spirits 3, and the trio of Yumeji, Sankuro, and Gaoh from Samurai Spirits Zero proper. Mizuki, the second game's boss, is sadly nowhere to be seen.

A PlayStation 2 version of Samurai Spirits Zero is in the works, although its release date is unspecified. Hopefully we'll see the improvements from the Special version included in the home release as well, when SNK chooses to update the world with more information."

Since this hasn't been officially stated by playmore i'm not sure what to make of it, seems weird that they would just add 2 lame SS bosses & no one else. Anyways if this is true ill be happy cause its not about the new characters to me but a rebalance of the game.

Jacked this news from a thread on ng.com forums Here's the original if your interested www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthread.php?s=2ed67948663be7d97ccb64ecf525ae00&threadid=79378

[hullcityfcmad]

i certainly hope this is going to happen......out of all the the newest releases ssv has been my favourite.if the character imbalances are sorted then there will be one hell of a game.
hullcityfcmad ;D

[Kazuya_UK]

They need to sort of the balance issues most importantly, but they also need to translate the story to English, give us fatalities back and to tweak some of the stages so they look a bit better... especially the ones that look worse than they did back in SS3 etc. Oh, and either totally ditch or really improve that SUCK-ASS striker using mofo of a sub boss

If they do all of that then it will be worth it and I think it could become one of my favourite SS games... won't beat SS2 though

Edit: they could also do with adding my nemesis Cham Cham in there... that would make me REALLY happy, that is if they could fit her in with the game...

Kaz

[Goemon]

It would be so easy for them to add earquake & shiki with their new SvC sprites... Maybe snkp doesn't want to add too many SS2 characters cause they still want people to buy SS2 carts ;D

[Daaren]

Just readed that news, thats great

[Goemon]

This will be cool and all but i think id rather snkp actually refine the incomplete (imo) mslug5. Even if they rebalance 5 ill still like SS4 & 2 better cause they are both perfect in their own style.

[Raiken]

Goemon said:

This will be cool and all but i think id rather snkp actually redid the incomplete (imo) mslug5. Even if they rebalance ill still like SS4 & 2 better cause they are both perfect in their own style.

Indeed. I don't really care if they ever balance out ssv, it's ms5 that's really needs to be redone in a few places.

[seiryu]

they need to butch up the animation.
Is it just me or are there less animationframes in SS5 compared to 4 or 3?

[Kazuya_UK]

I kind of want to see a special version of SS0 more than I want to see MS5... MS5 is at least still pretty enjoyable, while I just can't seem to get into SS0 at all at the moment. It's a shame cos it has the potential to be great, but lacks too many of the things that have always made SS a great series. Let's just hope that they truly make this SS0 Special worth it.

I'm willing to bet we'll see some kind of upgraded MS5 in time, even if it is an upgraded port to PS2/Xbox. We better anyway ;D

Kaz

[Throwen]

I would be really happy with that.
My Motivations were all mentioned by Kaz already, the English-translation (maybe most important!), then the Fatalities (were a great Addition)!!

[Daaren]

There's screenshots on the SS0 website
www.samurai-zero.jp/

[Goemon]

Thanks for keepin us informed Daaren. (Infact this is newsworthy of ngfl's home page ) That new artwork is amazing imo, very stylish. I absolutely love that new stage even though its just a remix. The only thing that leaves me extremely sour about this new new version is the fact that instead of adding some old characters worth playing as or some new ones they decided to obviously be lazy and bring back those 2 old bosses cause they would have actually had to some work it placing in some SS2 characters and making them fit. Hopefully they actually put a decent amout of work in balancing all the characters and this could be a possibly great game.