Shadow Blade

Shadow Blade

released on Jan 16, 2014

Shadow Blade

released on Jan 16, 2014

Shadow Blade is a fast-paced ninja game.


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Shadow Blade: Reload
Shadow Blade: Reload

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Just to be clear, I played the Apple Arcade version that should be based on this version. SB+ is an action platformer that can be fun. The levels tend to be short and there are optional objectives like collecting 2 kanji and more yellow orbs. It’s very typical, it won’t surprise you in any way. It also doesn’t excel in anything. I was still willing to complete it since I like collecting everything and doing all the optional objectives. That’s no longer happening because of one design decision. Your character has no health. So you have to start from the last checkpoint if you get hit once. The timer does not reset with checkpoints and there’s an optional objective to finish levels within certain times. Not only that, the game is designed in such a way where there will be plenty of cheap sections from chapter 2 onwards. I don’t know about you but life is too short to repeat sections for no good reason just to appear long. There’s nothing groundbreaking here and you can give it a try if it doesn’t bother you. But I don’t know why you would want to play this.