The game is designed to place emphasis on the qualities that are unique to the Samurai Shodown series. With much less of a focus on combos and supers, victory in Samurai Shodown V Special at high level play will usually come down to using range and spacing to your advantage.
| Release date: | 01 Apr 2004 |
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| Last update: | 20 Feb 2020 (on Steam, public branch) |
| Developers: | Yuki Enterprise, SNK Corporation, Code Mystics |
| Publishers: | SNK Corporation, HAMSTER Corporation |