Plasma Sword playthrough (Dreamcast) (1CC)
294Playthrough with Hayato. This game was called Star Gladiator 2 in Japan, I don't know why Capcom decided to re-name it for the other regions.
They made it easier to get the true ending for this sequel. Instead of having to beat the game as quickly as possible, you need to get a certain amount of battle ability points by the time you beat the eight opponent. If you don't have enough points, you'll get a shorter ending, but if you do have enough points, you'll get to fight an extra opponent. Beating them will get you your character's full ending.
I also fight one of the hidden characters. If you get at least two perfect, two plasma-strike finishes and one plasma field finish during the game, you'll fight either Rai-On or Kaede at some point before the boss (I fight Rai-On).
Plasma Sword looks pretty unimpressive for a Dreamcast game. The problem was that the arcade version ran on the ZN-2 hardware, which was based on the Playstation. A bunch of games for this hardware -such as Rival Schools, Street Fighter EX2 Plus and Strider 2 -all received Playstation ports, but Plasma Sword didn't. It was rumored at the time that a Playstation port of the game was in the works, but it was never released. So Plasma Sword was a Dreamcast exclusive.