{"id":21173,"date":"2021-04-21T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T00:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=21173"},"modified":"2021-03-30T12:47:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T12:47:40","slug":"bladed-fury-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/21\/bladed-fury-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Bladed Fury (Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In ancient China lives a princess named Qi, who is also very skilled with swords.\u00a0 One day she battles a demon in her father\u2019s quarters, but gets tricked and ends up being accused of killing her father herself.\u00a0 While fleeing from her palace, Qi notices some people who shouldn\u2019t be there, and decides that something isn\u2019t right.\u00a0 Now in exile, Qi must battle warriors and demons to prove her innocence and find out what\u2019s really going on in her kingdom.\u00a0 Bladed Fury is a 2-D platform hack and slash with fast action and a unique visual style.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on most current consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

Qi is extremely nimble and fun to control.\u00a0 She can double jump and dash both in the air and on the ground when you press the right shoulder button.\u00a0 The left shoulder button blocks attacks.\u00a0 She also has two types of sword attacks.\u00a0 By pressing the X button, she\u2019ll dish out quick damage with her small sword.\u00a0 Early in the game she\u2019ll get a giant sword that you can use with the Y button.\u00a0 It\u2019s slower but much more powerful.\u00a0 The big sword can also break enemy armor and swat back projectiles if you time it right.\u00a0 Sometimes when you defeat a mid-boss or powerful leader, you\u2019ll be able to use their attacks by holding down the left trigger button and one of the face buttons.\u00a0 The right trigger button will regenerate your health, but you can only use it a few times.\u00a0 You\u2019ll save your game at lanterns, and if you run out of energy you\u2019ll start back at the last one you saved at.\u00a0 Lanterns serve a couple of other functions as well.\u00a0 As you defeat enemies, you\u2019ll earn souls.\u00a0 Spend these souls to unlock upgrades for Qi at the lanterns, and also sort out which defeated boss skills you want to have.<\/p>\n

I really liked the visual style of this game.\u00a0 The segmented sprites kind of reminded me of VanillaWare games like Odin Sphere, Dragon\u2019s Crown, and especially Muramasa: The Demon Blade, a hidden Wii gem.\u00a0 It also makes me think of cartoons like Samurai Jack.\u00a0 The small and big sword attacks, plus the use of defeated enemy powers also reminded me of Brave Fencer Musashi, a PSOne favorite of mine.\u00a0 Some of the levels also have neat ideas.\u00a0 Like one stage where you collect these tablets, then place them on a map to create parts of the level.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t care much for the story, though.\u00a0 Talking to people and reading the text really breaks up the action, and I ended up skipping a lot of it.\u00a0 Really these types of games don\u2019t need much backstory.\u00a0 For all I care, the plot could\u2019ve been \u201cA Chinese princess decides to eat a can of spinach and beat up all the bad guys\u201d and I\u2019d be OK with that.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad the game has an Easy difficulty selection, but it still gets tough later on.\u00a0 It also looks better in TV mode rather than in handheld mode on the Switch.\u00a0 The only other problem I had was the action gets a bit repetitive sometimes.\u00a0 But otherwise, this is still a surprisingly fun action platform game with hack and slash elements, and I really liked it for the most part.<\/p>\n

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Bladed Fury is rated T for Teen with ESRB descriptors of Fantasy Violence, Mild Blood, Mild Language, Suggestive Themes, and Partial Nudity.\u00a0 You slash all sorts of warriors and demons who just disappear when defeated.\u00a0 When you get hit, Qi gets thrown back a bit and lets out an \u201cugh!\u201d\u00a0 I didn\u2019t really notice much blood, though.\u00a0 The main character and other ladies wear really skimpy robes, and the way Qi moves I don\u2019t know how her clothes stay on her.\u00a0 Other adult themes are just in the text only.\u00a0 Reading skill is a must, and some gamers may find it too difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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