Like its predecessor, the game uses whole-width fonts in the dialogs. Certain finishing overkill moves had to be simplified to accommodate the epilogues for each character, due to the limited memory of the platform.Knowing full-well she's not going to be in it as they're already finishing VI, it was a big bait and switch they were going to pull. Brandon Sheffield, Necrosoft Games director reveal that Yuki Enterprise were planning to put Hazuki Kazama in the next game, Samurai Shodown VI, as fans keep asking her to be in.The game was not yet localized properly at the time of the discovery, and it was thus reworked prior to its release in the collection. Necrosoft Games director Brandon Sheffield and SNK employee Adam Laatz discovered a surviving copy of Samurai Shodown V Perfect while he was interviewing Kouji Takaya for the Samurai Shodown NeoGeo Collection.Īccording to SNK, this is the final official game made for the NeoGeo platform. In fact, they found out when the game was in location test in one single location, so they immediately ordered V Perfect‘s cancellation. The game was pulled from location test so fast that the director Takaya didn't even have time to get to the site to watch people play before it was pulled. SNK hadn't been told this game was being made, as they were already developing Samurai Shodown VI by this point. Samurai Shodown V Perfect was meant to fix some of the gameplay issues still present in Special as well as introduce new stories for every character.

The only 3 photos of the 'Red Logo' edition.Īfter work on Samurai Shodown V Special, Yuki Enterprise and director Kouji Takaya decided to begin development on a third and final update.

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