Blade Warrior

Blade Warrior is an arcade game with a strongly emphasized adventure theme, prepared in 1991 by Image Works. Its main character is a battle-experienced warrior, who is sent on a mission to find seven fragments of a magical statue. This artifact is essential to the fight against the mighty creature Murk, who cast a curse on the whole land and introduced chaos in the form of a hordes of bloodthirsty monsters.

At first glance, Blade Warrior resembles games such as Rastan or Savage - because we're moving in one direction, eliminating all the monsters we encounter. The matter becomes more complicated when we come to the end of the route and in no traditional way can we proceed to the next stage. Then it turns out that the Image Works product is more than just an action game....

Our hero carries a book of spells with him, at the beginning of the game incomplete. While wandering, you should find pages with the spells written down, and then find the right amount of ingredients for their execution (e.g. a living frog or a mandragora root - twelve different components in total). In most cases, this is the only way to successfully navigate through the vast land. A map that shows the position of the hero in relation to all the most important locations also helps in the journey. In addition to ingredients to prepare spells, we are also looking for a variety of items, such as keys to open previously inaccessible gates.

Blade Warrior is characterized by a unique visual setting. Both the main character and all objects in the game are presented in the form of black outlines, not abounding in any details. In this way, the authors made it clear that the action of the programme takes place only at night. This, of course, has its drawbacks, which mainly translate into increased levels of difficulty. Sometimes it's simply difficult to see an enemy that suddenly appeared on one side of the screen. It is also a lot of problems to determine the distance at which our hero can safely attack with a sword. When you enter between trees, the warrior is virtually invisible.

The vast world, avant-garde workmanship, as well as a large number of adventure elements make Blade Warrior a product that stands out from the classic frames of the genre, and can bring a lot of joy to players bored with traditional battles.

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Last updated on August 14, 2015