The Last Blade seemed a bit like a more "watered down"Įven so, The Last Blade still holds its own as a high quality 2D fighting game from SNK.
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Ideologies were fighting to decide Japan's new society. STORY : The Last Blade is set in 1863 during theīakumatsu, the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate where a clash of