{"id":20681,"date":"2020-11-04T00:01:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T00:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20681"},"modified":"2020-11-03T13:37:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T13:37:53","slug":"the-last-blade-beyond-the-destiny-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/04\/the-last-blade-beyond-the-destiny-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Blade: Beyond the Destiny (Switch)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The NEO GEO Pocket Color was a handheld game system that SNK made in the late 90s to compete with Nintendo\u2019s Game Boy Color.\u00a0 I loved SNK\u2019s handheld and for a while I enjoyed it even more than Nintendo\u2019s.\u00a0 So I\u2019m really glad they\u2019ve been releasing some of their games on the Switch.\u00a0 SNK is mostly known for their 2-D one-on-one fighters, so a lot of their series got entries on the handheld.\u00a0 One of their lesser known series is The Last Blade, which only got a couple of entries as opposed to other ones like King of Fighters or Samurai Shodown.\u00a0 I\u2019ve even read that some say that The Last Blade is like a spinoff of Samurai Shodown, since they are both weapons based 2-D fighters set in medieval Japan.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t really know if that\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

For a fighter on a handheld with only two buttons, you can still pull off a lot of complex moves like in a regular brawler game.\u00a0 There is a Story Mode where you pick a character and see them through the end, as well as survival, time attack, and training modes and Vs. mode.\u00a0 In the original handheld, you did two player by using a link cable between two NGPC handhelds.\u00a0 But here they just split the screen and have the other person pick their character on a second NGPC!\u00a0 So that\u2019s neat.\u00a0 As you play, you\u2019ll earn points which you can use to unlock and buy scrolls.\u00a0 These scrolls give more information on the characters, and sometimes you can even unlock new characters and story sections by purchasing them.\u00a0 There are even a couple of mini-games you can unlock this way, like a baseball style game and a 2-D shooter.\u00a0 You view the action on a mock up NEO GEO Pocket Color handheld (which is weird when you are playing the handheld on the Switch handheld mode), but you can choose to zoom in on the screen to make it much easier to see.\u00a0 You can also toggle various screen filters, rewind, and view the game\u2019s original instruction booklet.<\/p>\n

Really the only problem I had with this one is that it\u2019s way too long and cumbersome to unlock anything in this game.\u00a0 Plus you fight nearly all the same characters in Story Mode, no matter who you pick.\u00a0 And on a more personal level, I didn\u2019t find any of the characters as interesting as other SNK fighters.\u00a0 It\u2019s still a good game, it\u2019s just my least favorite in the list of NGPC games ported to the Switch.\u00a0 I do like that the last boss isn\u2019t cheap, and I can actually beat this game.\u00a0 My favorite is still Gals Fighters<\/strong><\/a>, though.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a fighting game, so you attack other players with punches, kicks, swords, and magic blasts.\u00a0 But defeated players just fall down and about the worst thing you see are cartoon dizzy stars.\u00a0 The shorty, squatty cartoony \u201cchibi\u201d design of the characters and graphics also negate a lot of the violence.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpfufl for the text.\u00a0 The Last Blade: Beyond the Destiny is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The NEO GEO Pocket Color was a handheld game system that SNK made in the late 90s to compete with Nintendo\u2019s Game Boy Color.\u00a0 I loved SNK\u2019s handheld and for a while I enjoyed it even more than Nintendo\u2019s.\u00a0 So I\u2019m really glad they\u2019ve been releasing some of their games on the Switch.\u00a0 SNK is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20683,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20681\/revisions\/20683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}