Blades of Vengeance is a platform game that was developed by Beam Software and published by Electronic Arts for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. In this game, one or two players can select one of three fantasy warriors to fight through a large range of platform levels in order to defeat the forces of darkness.
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This is a fairly decent eurostyle (as in big, open levels and wall hugging to find secrets) action platformer that is aesthetically similar to games like Golden Axe and Rastan. The music is pure Genesis twang, although the sound effects are on the "meh" side of things.
My main gripes come with the last couple of levels. Stage 7 is a winding maze, which I always found annoying, and stage 8 drags on and on without much of what made the first half enjoyable.
The other thing I didn't care for is how the armor upgrade had to be purchased in the shop rather than found in the game itself. It essentially makes you quite OP (at least as the Huntress) and you'll no doubt have enough money for it as soon as it becomes available in the shop post stage 3. It would have been fair more rewarding to have to work for it, and it would have made the game a bit more challenging. (As it stands, it was shockingly easy and I cleared it my first time sitting down with it)
Still, I don't regret playing it through having exhausted the Genesis' library of similar games. A solid 6 or 7- fun while it lasted but I don't see myself replaying any time soon.
My main gripes come with the last couple of levels. Stage 7 is a winding maze, which I always found annoying, and stage 8 drags on and on without much of what made the first half enjoyable.
The other thing I didn't care for is how the armor upgrade had to be purchased in the shop rather than found in the game itself. It essentially makes you quite OP (at least as the Huntress) and you'll no doubt have enough money for it as soon as it becomes available in the shop post stage 3. It would have been fair more rewarding to have to work for it, and it would have made the game a bit more challenging. (As it stands, it was shockingly easy and I cleared it my first time sitting down with it)
Still, I don't regret playing it through having exhausted the Genesis' library of similar games. A solid 6 or 7- fun while it lasted but I don't see myself replaying any time soon.
I guess this is passable? More so than it looks, at least. I thought it was going to be one of those Amiga ports while looking through the World of Longplays playlist, but I found that this is both Genesis exclusive and thankfully doesn't really follow that Amiga design philosophy either. I guess that just leaves it as an ugly, but playable game. There's a lot of pretty irritating enemy types, though.
Side scrolling sword and sorcery action game where you can play as a faster woman with a sword, slower and stronger guy with an axe, and a weaker magic user with a ranged attack. Can find potion and magic items to use and silver to buy items in between levels. Each character has an armor upgrade three levels in that changes their appearance and weapon and attacks. Useful but poor looking ducking block that you will need to use but just has enemies attacking through or bouncing off you. Characters have basic, strong, jump/duck attacks, and when they are upgrade some have faster attacking combos you can do. Can hold attack to walk backwards, doesn't do anything useful but it's there.
Screenshots: https://twitter.com/Legolas_Katarn/status/1360203715081170948
Screenshots: https://twitter.com/Legolas_Katarn/status/1360203715081170948
Cadash + rastan = casi perfecto.