MiSTer PC-Engine 🕹 The Legendary Axe 2 - ZONE.4C

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Published on August 25, 2023 10:00:27 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvOYa-ZBcNc

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The Legendary Axe II (1990)

Duration: 32:05

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📙 I have a MiSTer! Let's try out a classic PC-Engine/TurboGrafx-16 game. Today I'm playing one of my favorite PC-Engine games, the awesome 'The Legendary Axe' from 1988. This is a great game that fits my temperament uniquely well. It's similar to the old linear Castlevania games, but with a few key design elements that separates it and makes for a more tactical game:

The enemies don't respawn in Legendary Axe, which allows you to strategically reposition yourself on safe ground and fight them there. The enemies are difficult, but relatively few, and are reused in different combinations. Every enemy is tricky, but you get to fully learn their patterns and exploit their weaknesses.

The game has a focus on precision attacks, where your attack strength is maximized by *not* spamming the attack button, and waiting for your attack guage to fill. Focusing on precision hits that do lots of damage makes the basic combat more engaging than games like Castlevania. You only have one weapon, which makes it possible to become intimately familiar with its timing and hitboxes. Your weapon upgrades make a big difference, and since the enemies are reused a lot, it feels great to kill an enemy in fewer hits than earlier in the game.

'The Legendary Axe' was developed by 'Victor Musical Industries', originally a part of Japanese electronics giant JVC, which incidentally stands for 'Japan Victor Company'. Game designer Keisuke Abe also worked on all the Bonk games, which seem similarly well-designed.

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