Samurai Showdown V Special Controversy Brewing...

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ferrarimanf355

It Wandered In From the Wastes
It's like the Fallout: POS uproar, times 100. SNK Playmore promised a great send off for the Neo Geo AES homecart system with their release of Samurai Showdown V Special. They promised a lot of bloodletting, and Kill Bill-style dismemberments and decapatations. Well, guess what?
They lied.
They cut the blood and fatalities from the homecart release... in both the US and Japanese releases. (first time ever, according to sources) And to rub some salt into the gaping flesh wound, the MVS arcade cartridge version has the promised blood and body parts flying, there appears to be no way to unlock the crimson goodness (the only time that the debug BIOS is fooled)... oh, and the home cart cost $359, before shipping, from the Neo Store . Ouch. :evil:


Here's a neo-geo.com thread on the brouhaha.
And another.
And one more.
Read my thoughts on this whole brouhaha in the second page on this thread: and yeah, it's a dumb decision, especially since they PROMISED the red rivers... :evil:
 
I doubt most even care, any real gamers in the neo geo community have already gone the way of MVS. Most dont consider any of the newer neo geo releases are from SNK, which they arent, its just playmore humping their corpse. To say its 100 times worse than the Fallout:pos situation, I dont know since it only affects less than a couple hundred who will buy the AES cartridge. I still think the situation is kinda stupid and there was no reason for taking out the violence since the hardest of their fans are the only ones that they are serving, they should just give it to them since they've been loyal for all these damn years. Its not like its some big budget game that could get into legal issues with people.
 
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