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Guilty Gear Character to Appear in Samurai Shodown Game's 3rd Season Pass
posted on by Adriana Hazra
SNK announced on Sunday during the Japan Fighting Game Publishers Roundtable that its Samurai Shodown (Samurai Spirits) fighting game will feature a character from the Guilty Gear franchise as the fourth DLC character in its 3rd Season Pass.
The company also announced that the game will release the DLC character Cham Cham with its 3rd Season Pass on March 16. The company streamed a video for the character.
The game will release for the Xbox Series X|S on the same day.
The game launched for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in Japan and the West in June 2019. The Nintendo Switch version launched in Japan in December 2019 and in the West in February 2020. The arcade version of the game debuted in October 2019, and the game then launched for Stadia in November 2019. The game launched for the PC in June 2020. Sony's "PlayStation LineUp Tour" streaming event announced the game in September 2018.
The game's Season Pass 1 includes DLC characters Rimururu, Basara, Kazuki, and wan-Fu. Season Pass 2 includes DLC characters Mina, Sogetsu, Iroha, and Warden from Ubisoft's For Honor game. The Season Pass 3 will also include The Last Blade 2 character Hibiki Takane.
SNK developed the game using Unreal Engine 4. The game enables up to 10 players to play multiplayer online. The game has Japanese audio with subtitles in English, Japanese, traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, Korean, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Pan-American Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese.
The game is set between the events of the original game and Samurai Shodown V. The game features three new playable fighters: Darli Dagger, Wu-Ruixiang, and Yashamaru Kurama. The returning fighters from previous games in the series include Haōmaru, Nakoruru, Earthquake, Galford, Hanzo Hattori, Tam Tam, Kyoshiro Senryo, Jubei Yagyu, Ukyo Tachibana, Charlotte, Genjuro Kibagami, Shiki, and Yoshitora Tokugawa.
Sources: Japan Fighting Game Publishers Roundtable livestream, SNK's YouTube channel and Twitter account, 4Gamer (T田)
