somebody must have voted and bumped this old thread. Fuck it, let's talk about the NGPC. For the past month, I've been playing only SamSho! and First Contact.
SS! is a great game and might have even been my favorite of all, except for one thing...needs better AI. You can easilly breeze through it on the hardest setting without losing a round. Other than that, it's a perfect game. Good roster -- I choose 1 over 2 just for having Shizumaru (I wish Basara was playable instead of Shiki, though), hillarious Looney Toons style animations for when you fall from a great height and smash flat on the ground, etc., great music, great aesthetic (like the opening of the game depending on the NGPC's internal calendar...snowflakes in Winter, falling cherry blossom leaves in Spring).
Great game. Not perfect, but close. The game would be fun as hell with 2 players.