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Samurai Shodown DLC character announcement set for New Game+ Expo on June 23rd (seems to be Warden from For Honor)

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Samurai Shodown DLC character announcement set for New Game+ Expo

SNK will announce the final downloadable content character for Season 2 of Samurai Shodown during the New Game+ Expo live stream on June 23, the company teased.
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thanks to TheAceBokuto for pointing this out in the OT.
 
Big Yoshi

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What??? Thats is wild. You would think if they were gonna get a ubisoft character it would be the prince, is the warden even a specific character?
Pretty cool nonetheless.
 
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That would be an even bigger waste of a character slot than Iroha, who was already one of the worst characters in SamSho history.
 
shadowman16

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Well that might have Cole beat for most pointless guest character in a fighter... with all the Samurai Shodown (or just SNK weapon related) characters that haven't been included in the game they go ahead and do this... not a fan of the choice. Here's hoping the rest of the season pass is better.
 
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Disappointed about no Samurai Shodown Sen representation. Say what you want about the game but the character designs were top notch.

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Seijuro

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Personally was hoping for Sieger. And even though the silhouette fits the Warden, I have a hard time believing out of all the possible western IPs they could do a collaboration with they choose a nameless grunt. I like the medieval knight idea though.
 
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Seijuro said:
Personally was hoping for Sieger. And even though the silhouette fits the Warden, I have a hard time believing out of all the possible western IPs they could do a collaboration with they choose a nameless grunt.
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I mean, a nameless grunt ends up adding a unique flavor if it's the only character of that type in the game. For me it's always fun having "the generic faceless foot soldier guy" as an option in a cast of otherwise ridiculous over-the-top personalities. Their lack of character becomes their character.

Though here, the main issue is that this is a long-running series with many character options, and the faceless guy is from another game entirely.
 
Burning Kasshu

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Honestly if it is this character I would find it kinda lame, but interested in how this came about. The only connection I could find (once others started to point out the silhouette similarities on twitter) is that samsho characters appeared in the Ubisoft mobile game Might & Magic Elemental Guardians.
shadowman16 said:
Well that might have Cole beat for most pointless guest character in a fighter... with all the Samurai Shodown (or just SNK weapon related) characters that haven't been included in the game they go ahead and do this... not a fan of the choice. Here's hoping the rest of the season pass is better.
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Unless they add another character as a bonus like season 1, this is the last character of season 2. With KOFXV on the horizon, I doubt samsho gets another season.
 
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TheAceBokuto said:
Honestly if it is this character I would find it kinda lame, but interested in how this came about. The only connection I could find (once others started to point out the silhouette similarities on twitter) is that samsho characters appeared in the Ubisoft mobile game Might & Magic Elemental Guardians.

Unless they add another character as a bonus like season 1, this is the last character of season 2. With KOFXV on the horizon, I doubt samsho gets another season.
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Oh... that's rather disappointing then. Well its just one character out of the roster, hardly that big of a deal but I think the spot could have probably gone to someone more deserving.
 
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As a daily FH player, this is not at all what I was expecting coming into this thread. Gonna be shoulder bashes for days.
 
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I love this game. It's my second favorite fighting game this generation and Darli Dagger is one of my favorite fighting game characters of all time. I've fallen off of the game since season one, but I want to get back into it.

This character ain't gonna be the one to bring me back tho.
 
Burning Kasshu

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Speaking of Sen, it could be Walter from Sen with a redesign but if your going to bring a character from Sen why the hell would you pick the generic knight.
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Zyrox

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The Warden from For Honor? Ngl that's kinda cool. Now Samsho players can experience the miserum as well. Incredibilis.
 
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Warden is my FH main but I'm probably not going to redownload this laggy game that fuck all ppl play. Not much space on my HDD.

That's a really cool addition though.
 
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No major interest in For Honor, but I honestly kind of love it getting a guest in here (if it does turn out to be him).
 

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I find the idea of a For Honour character being in this SNK fighting game to be completely laughable tbh
 
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The pose is similar (not 100%), but is there any other reason to believe it's that character? Any other hints?

It could be anybody wearing armour in a similar pose.
 
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That's interesting. It's a far cry from the old rumored guest character Baiken, but I guess that was just all bogus.
 
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If it actually ends up being Warden that'd be super hype lol, and I only really play the samurais. I still stand by FH being the best FG this gen, even if it isn't traditional.

Plus, for people who care, I know there's probably a strong chance it won't be, but it could be another female character.
 
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mazi said:
the silhouette is a perfect match for that render. it doesn't just kinda look it.
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They fit within the silhouette, the pose is exactly the same.
The silhouette is bigger and lumpier though, so it's not a perfect match. If it is meant to be this character though, they probably did this to obscure them a little (for people like me to doubt).
 
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They fit within the silhouette, the pose is exactly the same.
The silhouette is bigger and lumpier though, so it's not a perfect match. If it is meant to be this character though, they probably did this to obscure them a little (for people like me to doubt).
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I feel that it's just because of the artstyle, because it won't be Ubisoft's actual render.

I think if it isn't Warden, then their artists were very inspired by the Warden art lol. Unless of course it's a complete fakeout.
 
RecRoulette

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HOLY FUCK, let's go!!

For Honor was one of my favorite "fighting games" when it came out. What a great pick

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I find the idea of a For Honour character being in this SNK fighting game to be completely laughable tbh
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SNK Heroines dug Skullomania out of the crates for Heroines so stranger things have happened.
 
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Was sceptical at first if it would be Warden, but the comparison of the silhoutte with his official render leaves no doubt. I really liked For Honor and its uniqueness, so I gladly accept this character in a more traditional fighting game.

Another possibility could be that someone at SNKs art department is just a big For Honor fan and used Warden's silhouette as a placeholder thinking nobody would notice.

Edit: But still somehow a very strange and out of left field decision. (if it turns out to be true)
 
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SNK Heroines dug Skullomania out of the crates for Heroines so stranger things have happened.
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That was only because Terry Bogard was a guest in Fighting EX Layer. Skullomania being in SNK Heroines made sense in that regard.



Which, I mentioned this in the SamSho OT, but this guest being a For Honor character would be way out of left field considering most folks would expect a guest from Tekken, Soul Calibur or even the aforementioned Fighting EX Layer. That said, I don't dislike the idea of the character being a For Honor guest.
 
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Which, I mentioned this in the SamSho OT, but this guest being a For Honor character would be way out of left field considering most folks would expect a guest from Tekken, Soul Calibur or even the aforementioned Fighting EX Layer. That said, I don't dislike the idea of the character being a For Honor guest.
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Characters from SAMURAI SHODOWN join the line-up to Ubisoft’s Might and Magic® Elemental Guardians! The collaboration event has begun from today!｜NEWS RELEASE｜SNK USA

Characters from SAMURAI SHODOWN join the line-up to Ubisoft’s Might and Magic® Elemental Guardians! The collaboration event has begun from today!｜The official SNK USA website.
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Cool for SNK I guess, but even if I wasn't expecting a third party character, if we got one I was at least hoping for one with some visual personality.

Like if they needed a generic knight type, Siegfried is right there, and there clearly has already been paperwork between SNK and Bamco before.
 
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Characters from SAMURAI SHODOWN join the line-up to Ubisoft’s Might and Magic® Elemental Guardians! The collaboration event has begun from today!｜NEWS RELEASE｜SNK USA

Characters from SAMURAI SHODOWN join the line-up to Ubisoft’s Might and Magic® Elemental Guardians! The collaboration event has begun from today!｜The official SNK USA website.
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Ehhh, I find that connection tenuous at best. World Wrestling Entertainment was featured in the KOF mobile game, and I'm not expecting John Cena to be a guest character in KOF XV.



If the guest does turn out to be a For Honor character, I wouldn't say that mobile game tie-in was what lead to it.
 
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