Shinsetsu Samurai Spirits Bushidou Retsuden — known in the West as Samurai Spirits RPG — is a 1997 SNK RPG set in the Samurai Shodown universe. Unusually, its Neo Geo CD, Sega Saturn, and PlayStation versions each carried different bonus content, making version differences a persistent topic for collectors and preservationists.
The Vault · 1997
Shinsetsu Samurai Spirits Bushidou Retsuden
The Samurai Shodown RPG with more secrets than any one version ever showed you.
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