Back team: Yasupuu (as Yasu-Puu), Anta-Baka, Y. Kawano, Bad Apples Planners: Head-Ken, Tomi Yan, Kouji Takaya, Guro Support from: Masami Nakaoka, Eiji Shiroi, Y. STAFF Executive producer: Eikichi Kawasaki Producers: Y.
Some of the series' older characters were restored for the 4th game, including Charlotte, Tam Tam and Jubei Yagyu. Certain finishes also enable a "fatality" move in the vein of "Mortal Kombat".
The advantage to this is that the one committing suicide will start the next round with a full "POW" gauge. SNK also added a "suicide" move, allowing a player to forfeit a round. Players can no longer charge up their own POW gauge but a new move called the 'CD combo' was added players can press the C and D buttons together, triggering a strike that can be followed up by a sequence of button taps. Dodges, which allowed players to evade/side-step attacks are also gone. Changes to the established formula include the removal of both aerial blocking and the switch-around move (the latter of which which allowed a player to move quickly behind their opponent's back).
The 4th installment of the weapons-based one-on-one fighting series features seventeen selectable characters and two end bosses. published 25 years ago: Samurai Shodown IV - Amakusa's Revenge © 1996 SNK.