pleased with the return of those which had been dropped from the roster in Samurai Shodown III. He particularly praised the visuals, remarking that "The fighters have superb animation; several fighting stages are outright beautiful; and the special moves look awesome." The four reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the Neo Geo home version a unanimous score of 8 out of 10, praising the high number of characters and the size of the character sprites. In a review of the Virtual Console release, Nintendo Life also gave the game an 8 out of 10, but their praise focused more on the animations, heavy challenge, and the thrilling pacing of battles, commenting, "a single slash [is] capable of turning the tide against any opponent." Notes See also shiro-tokisada-amakusa is catholics-rebel during japan-shogun-period References External links Samurai Shodown IV at GameFAQs Samurai Shodown IV at Giant Bomb Samurai Shodown IV at Killer List of Videogames Samurai Shodown IV at MobyGames 1996 video games ACA Neo Geo games Arcade video games D4 Enterprise games Fighting games 2D fighting games Interquel video games Multiplayer and single-player video games Neo Geo games Neo Geo CD games Nintendo Switch games PlayStation (console) games PlayStation Network games PlayStation 4 games Samurai Shodown video games Sega Saturn games SNK games SNK Playmore games Video game sequels Video games about samurai Virtual Console games Video games developed in Japan Xbox One games Hamster Corporation games