Frankly? Better at being Super Smash Bros. than Super Smash Bros. has been in a good, long while.

Samurai Gunn 2's a great party-game, and just generally extremely easy and quick to just pick up and play. (Easiest, ofc, when instructed by somebody who already knows it.)

You getting in a verbal fight with your homies and one of them says: "Fight me"?
OK! Hop on Samurai Gunn, scrub.

The depth behind the way stage hazards interact with your characters, and the intricacies of gun and dash mechanics (did you know the orb a dead player leaves behind absorbs shots that hit it? Now you do) are extremely rewarding to learn, and consecutively take advantage of.

Definitely missing the single-player component a bit at this point, and this game has crashed on me more than once (both throwing an error message and just plain soft-locking in the menu). I do hope they'll put the finishing touches on it - what's here already is damn good fun.

Reviewed on Oct 29, 2023


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