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THE FINAL BLADE is a fighting game developed and published by SNK in 1997. Set in Japan during the Edo period, the game features famous swordsmen. Therefore, this game belongs to the fighting game genre and you can fight using different types of skills or sword techniques to defeat opponents and earn more recognition. The combat gameplay of the game is great and ahead of its time with a variety of mechanics allowing players to perform lethal moves to defeat opponents through a variety of tactics. One example of such a mechanism is allowing players to choose a character with either a “Strength” or “Speed” play style.

Unlike the “Speed” system, which emphasizes speed and complex combinations, the “Strength” system emphasizes dealing significant damage. In this game, players can use a special skill known as “Hajiks” to parry or parry attacks. There is also a mechanism that allows you to take desperate actions based on reflexes, so you can apply more tactics in situations. Thus, players can combine different actions in each frame to fight whatever is attacking them. You can parry a counterattack or block incoming deadly skills with great maneuvers. The game focuses on skills and you have to master them in order to perform better in combat.

With the addition of Super Hidden Skills and Super Despair Moves, the game features a host of amazing strikes, which is not the least of the game’s many strengths. However, you need to accumulate energy in order to launch them by attacking or taking damage. This makes the fight more balanced and you will have to perform certain combos to activate the skills and take out the target. Each character has their own activation methods, giving players more ideas for making eye-catching combinations. And in recent years, SNK has partnered with Hamster Corporation to bring many classic NEOGEO titles to modern gaming environments with the ACA NEOGEO series.