Blood Warrior (Syogethu) Arcade Gameplay (2K 60fps)
0Blood Warrior, known in Japan as Ooedo Fight (大江戸ファイト), is a 1993 Atop arcade fighting game and is considered the successor to Shogun Warriors. Like Shogun Warriors, the game is based on popular Japanese mythological tropes; such as samurai, ninja, kabuki and yōkai. Taking heavy inspiration from Midway's Mortal Kombat, it uses digitized images for its fighters and has an emphasis on comedic amounts of blood and gore. However, its gameplay is closer to Street Fighter II than anything else.
It's a very unbalanced, mediocre game that mostly holds novelty in its wacky design choices. Each character has a lot of command normals so there is a large emphasis on just footsies and pokes, but the game also has comboability despite their being no combo counter thanks to large hitstun values. There is (or was,) surprisingly, a very small scene in Japan centered around the game, so competitive match footage does exist.