I feel a great chance has been lost to continue with the SS legacy. It all looks so dumbed down, the attraction for the saga was as much to with it being a vs fighting game as it was how faithful it was to a sort of manga take on feudal martial arts. This one looks like Naruto One Piece Treasure Ronald McDonald Ultra Mega Fighting Bash.
they would make a looooot more money and gratify both fan crowds porting and localizing Samurai Shodown RPG.
would have the atmosphere and genius of the classics, with the forward thinking depth of epic RPGing.
SNK could then boast having the first fighting RPG available on modern western platforms.
they should do so before another fighting company beats them to it with a SF RPG worldwide launch.
the fan localization was dropped. SNK could outsource to a dev to do the porting and localizing like how they been doing with their NeoGeo games on modern platforms.
https://www.arcade-projects.com/for...i-shodown-rpg-neo-geo-cd-english-translation/
SNK shouldnt underestimate the profitabiltiy of RPGs, even retro games are making it big these days, just look at Bloodstained ROTN, even with its chuggie 2.5D appearance, its still winning a lot of praise. now imagine a hardcore masterpiece like Samurai Shodown RPG
Shinretsu Samurai Spirits Bushido Retsuden deserves to be ported and localized on PS4 and Switch at least.
like, we know their fighting games are not selling as much as they should. Samurai Shodown RPG can be an easy sleeper hit for them.
RPGs are more in demand than fighting games these days. especially classics people havent played before.
and that RPG would raise Samurai Shodown brand to a wider fanbase and prosperous profits.
the game is complete, and would be low risk, high reward for SNK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l25eIOnhqA