Sword Master Longplay (NES) [QHD]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2022
- Game Info
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Developer: Athena Co. Ltd.
Publisher: Activision
Year of Release: 1990
Game Review & Impressions
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Released in 1990, Sword Master combines platforming with basic combat, resulting in a game which feels reminiscent of Ninja Gaiden and Ghosts 'n' Goblins.
The game's USP, such as it is, is the ability to transform between sword-swinging Knight and spellcasting mage. Defeating the first end-of-level boss earns you a mystical rod that allows you to transform, and the designers clearly intended for this to be one of the main mechanics, switching between the two forms to deal with various foes you come up against.
Personally, I found the whole mage form largely redundant. The starting spell -- a sputtering excuse for a fireball -- is next to useless, at least compared to multiple inches of cold steel. More powerful spells can be earned by defeating subsequent bosses, but even these are restricted to a finite number of uses.
With its main feature left pretty much irrelevant, what remains of Sword Master is an average and overly difficult arcade platformer. The visuals are OK, with a kind of Castlevania style, and sound is decent enough, but I'm not sure there's much else to really recommend this.
Information & Trivia
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Video Notes
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- 4:3 aspect ratio
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That shield was doing work. Great job getting through that game with such efficiency. I would have been frustrated early on.
Incredible graphics for NES!
As all true masters, jumping is the key to success...
This is a beautiful example of how graphically impressive 8 bit games could be. The gameplay is a bit repetitive but that was the standard back then. Still the parallax scrolling is something that was thought to NOT be possible back in the day. That’s why systems like snes and Genesis wowed everyone with their games upon their arrival. But as you can see here, even an 8 bit system was capable of that type of scrolling albeit a bit cut back, still impressive!
Technically not parallax scrolling, but some ingenious trickery to give the illusion of such.
this is an emulator.
Don't know why, but, this game reminds me Castlevania and Ninja Gaiden combined ☺ Graphics, music and sound is amazing 🤗
My thoughts exactly.
reminds me of actraiser from snes
Stage 2 was the farthest i could go back then. 28 years later, I finally know, Jump Attack is the key
I loved how you kept almost falling into a pit and jumped through the floor to get higher.
for years i was hackling a certain nintendo friend on youtube to review this gem.
i remember when it came out, most mags slammed this game as a bad one, i rented it one time, then it became a regular rent game when nothing new was there, i loved the graphics, the anime scenes and the music, but the controls were the best.
until this day, i still consider this as one of the earliest forms of a ''souls like'' game , it was helped by the fact that it has some lore same as Demon's souls about a once brave knight that became evil and corrupt.
love this game, wish i bought it as a kid, i rank it highly, thank u for this video, it was a fun run down memory lane, one of the unsung gems of the nes.
wow that's some pretty good animation and scrolling for an NES game.
Always loved Sword Master. That and SETAs Castle of the Dragon. Sick ass games
Красивая игра и красиво же сыграно. Спасибо.
man surprised I missed this back in the day. Would love to have played this.
He was giving that Ox with the axe that work!
I have fond memories of this game on the NES at the time
But I seem to remember Total Nintendo Magazine giving it 7% (!)
A little harsh?
Wow! Very stunning In terms of graphic 😱
Reminds me of Rastan and Castlevania
This reminds me a bit of Gladiator from the arcades mixed with Rastan and a Castlevania/Master of Darkness atmosphere. My favourite type of game like this was The Legendary Axe for the TG-16.
Trojan.
@@caiusmadison2996 Good call. I used to have that game but it never did it for me.
Wonderful to see Athena's works being showcased. I felt that Sword Master was a more streamlined attempt at making a second Dragon Unit (Arcade) but came up short (and not as unique without all the weapons). It was better than Castle of Dragon, but Athena was more suited to trivia games and bowling (Super bowling being a decent game for early Super Nintendo) and some shumps like Biometal.
You're all right! Cheers!
Well played sir
Excellent gameplay bro 😏👉👉
Great Game 😁👍
Sword Master is ABSOLUTELY AWESOME and STUNNINGLY AMAZING
very straight forward game
The sound effects, dark ambient aesthetic remind me of one of my favorite Data East NES titles, Werewolf.
I love this video
Looks great!!!
Certainly Castle of Dragon vibes. Gameplay could have been done better, but still looks great. Maybe some more platforming and make some enemies more long range to make the player use the wizard more.
That last boss looks difficult.
Castle of Dragon crawled so that Sword Master could run.
Well....hobble at least :P
My favorite game on NES, controls are simple, respond quickly. Just what it takes in strategies to beat the bosses (especially the last level where we chain them ) altern with straight attack, upper attack and defense...
Oh! And the Soundtrack, one of the best on NES, It is not for nothing that I had to engrave the ost into vinyl disc ^^
I wholeheartedly agree with the visuals and graphics that was put into an 8-bit system. I will also add that in addition to the simple control features, I can definitely appreciate the blocking mechanic in this game. You are actually using a shield in our responsible for walking on attacks. Surprisingly, you can't really do that in games like Ninja Gaiden or Double Dragon.
Wow I never heard of this game. Looks pretty fun
Man I had this game as a kid, I loved it but I don’t think I ever made it past the 3rd level
The boomerang axes in games 😂😂
The Activision word mark screen looks like this is an MSX2 version.
This is an alright gem if you adjust to its quirks. I dig the fake parallax they did as well (duplicated background sprites that change when the screen scrolls to give that illusion).
It would surely be better if they tweaked the enemy placement, added some health pickups, and gave you a better motivation to use the Wizard, perhaps making usage of him required in certain areas, like perhaps having his spells expose Boss weaknesses.
This armory man reminds me "Dragoon" from Final Fantasy and Tactics Ogre (I like the armor design 😊)
best grafx on nes
Ok this game looks great.
2:30 the boss theme is the same of the game "Granada", for Mega Drive.
Lmao i randomly clicked this video thinking i would watch a few seconds but im almost done with the video and thinking this was a pretty cool game 🤣💯😳
Nice, thats one game i dont know. Looks and sounds great.
This is definitely a hidden gem. I would not have any clue of this game this is if I haven't seen this video. This was considerably ahead of it's time.
Отличная фэнтези игра
never heard of this nes game before
I just did a release date check on Ninja Gaiden 2. Thankfully it was before this game. They took a TON from ninja gaiden 2 from that opening.
0:58 "Prepare thy selves! I WILL ROCK THEE!!!"😎
Megaman in the middle ages😂Played very well👍
Never seen this, pretty cool.. ebay here i come.
Activision may have released some good games for the Commodore 64 and Amiga,
but the Atari 2600 games - mostly PITFALL,
PITFALL II: THE LOST CAVERNS and DECATHLON, are the greatest 😺👍🕹️.
moon patrol is my jam on atari
@@mark6302 Oh, that is classic 😺👍!
Huh, is this game related to Actraiser on the SNES at all? I remember you play as a golden knight there as well.
😁👍
weirdest on coming fireballs I ever seen🤣🤣🤣
The intro and first level themes are pretty banger, but other than that, this game is just kind of frustrating and 'eh'.
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This game reminds me Castle of Dragon a lot...
Same dev team as Castle of Dragon. Sword Master is more of a correction to everything wrong with Castle of Dragon.
@@jprogman thanks!☺️
Deluxe parallax efects...
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15 minutes, that’s a short game!
Definitely a graphics showcase NES title for sure , , almost has a Castlevania flow to it , , , reminds me sadly of of how the NES game WILLOW looks staggering better than "Legend of ZELDA 1 and 2 " , some developers simply put in more effort , , , ,🛡️👍👽
Fuckin sound track is basically Ninja Gaiden! Yall don't hear that tho? Looks to be run on teh same engine too.
Ninja Gaiden with armour
Is this Grandpa of Diablo in 2D?
2:55 is it just me.. or, uh... do those "fire" creatures look, like ..? XD
Activision made a good game?!!!! O_o
I hate it when I have blue scat thrown at me 😄
16 Minutes Longplay.....😳
What will be a speedrun about....5 Minutes?
Please someone help me when i was a kid i played a nes game it was 1vs1 carate fighting game but very slow movements and was the final boss at stage ground stage of a big waterflow and was a type of human reptilian boss i never ben able to damage it more than the 30% of the health was an undefeatet boss please anyone know the name of the game because i have forgoten and i want to watch someone beating that boss
AL82
Longpay. I think you mean longplay 😆
Corrected ;)
Father of actriser ?
3:07
What? Lol
一瓢三花淡奶
Activision before their greed took over..
Nes dark souls
Why does the game look/feel so boring? No, serious question. What are they doing wrong? The graphics are decent for NES, sound and music are okay too, the game concept is a fighting side scroller, which is a similar concept to Castlevania. It looks like a very well made game and still the game play is somehow lacking compared to similar games and I cannot figure out what the problem could be. Is it because you only go to the side and never straight up or diagonally, as in Cactlevania or Ghost'n Goblins?
Фризит игру
SUPERRR
How come no sound?
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