(c)1992 HUDSON SOFT
Vol.50
Release : 1992-7-10 (¥6500)
HuCard (4 Mbits) HC92056
Shooter / Vertical
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Released in America as
SOLDIER BLADE
( TGX040082 )
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Soldier Blade is the third and last Star Soldier game
from Hudson Soft released for the PC Engine system. It is a vertical
shoot'em up , your ship can collect three sorts of power ups:
Vulcan style gun (red), Laser (blue) and Laser-waves (green). When you
collect a bonus, a flying robot-pod (which can be also seen on the
game cover and title screen) follows you and shoot anything is sight.
A great originality of the weapon system is that you can store up
to three different power-ups. At any time, the current weapon can be
turned into a devastative bomb and clean up everything on screen (each
of them having their own way of doing so),
leaving place to the second stored weapon. As usual with any
Star Soldier game, stages are very long and this episode
counts seven of them, and some even have a middle-boss.
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Soldier Blade was part of the Caravan Competition organised by
Hudson Soft in 1992 and a Special Version of the game exists. It is
probably the most common of all, despite being insanely rare. It
comes as a single HuCard and offers the usual Time Attack modes.
(See Super Star Soldier for more information about
the Caravan Competition).
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Game teaser from the American version:
Searching for new resources, the Reconnaisance Fleet
goes into the deep space. But four months after their
missiong begins, all contact is lost. Suddenly, three
years later... the Fleet returns, but they have been
consumed by alien life forms. Now they have come to
attack the earth. But no need to be flurried. Now the
time has come to "Soldier Blade." Equipped with a
miniature Bias Drive, the fight goes on ! You become a
member of the team "Super Interception Airforce", and
destroy the enemy !
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Game Staff (Copied from the end credits) :
SOLDIER BLADE
STAFF
Direction
Charley Nakata
Game Design
Ukiuki Uribo
System Programing
Hikaru Aoyama
Enemy Programing
Charley Nakata
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Production Programing
Hikaru Aoyama
Art Direction
Ukiuki Uribo
Mechanical Art
Tatsuya Doe
Graphic Design
Ukiuki Uribo
Tatsuya Doe
Yukinori Kouzen
Rururira Hidebo
Atsushi Kakutani
Kuboq
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Music Composing
Keita Hoshi
Makiko Tanifuji
Sound Effect
Keita Hoshi
Sound System Programing
Lu. Iwabuchi
Super Voice
Nimai C. Malle
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Special Thanks
Futofuto Satoh
Hector Oyama
Manga
Masaaki Inoue
Masanori Wake
Mccol Iwata
Satoshi Mikami
Tetsuya Wakabayashi
Toshiya Abe
Team Young Power
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Planning
Shigeki Fujiwara
Supervision
Tatsujin Kawada
SOLDIER BLADE
OPERATION COMPLETE
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LK
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Add your Pov here !
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I personnaly think Soldier Blade is the best of the Star Soldier series.
Hudson Soft at his best. Shooting greatness. Better and amazingly detailed graphics,
awesome and varied levels, catchy music, gorgeous bosses and it has a (sort of) story
line ! It is such a nice touch to meet the main boss at the begining of the game who,
when beaten, flies off shouting "I'll be back!", and it does several times ! Once again, if you love
shoot'em up, Soldier Blade is a must have! Shame it is now so expensive though...
Soldier Blade is however not as intense and fast paced as Super Star Soldier,
we could describe it as a bit more "mature" shooter. I'm not sure if "mature" is
the right work though, it is hard to describe really. But a lot more work was
spent on level structure and design, but also "anticipation" before an enemy appears, like the huge tank in stage 3,
or the big red ship which
drops other ships in stage one and re-appears two stages later as a boss. Ok, I won't spoil
the game any longer. You see what I mean.
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