I don't really understand SamSho, but I wish I did. The idea of a fighting game where sword damage is taken to an extreme to create a tense footsies based atmosphere is very cool, but for some reason I never really was able to get the hang of this series. Maybe try playing it and see if you can see what I can't, I guess. Amakusa is a cheating bastard and this game is plagued with the unfortunate SNK boss syndrome countless other neo geo fighting games suffer from.