Retro Gameplay #137 - Dragon Blaze (Nintendo Switch, Arcade) [HD]
3A short, one-credit gameplay session of Dragon Blaze for the Nintendo Switch, a conversion of the Psikyo arcade game by the same name. This was actually the second time I played it and so I only made it a couple of stages in. This is a really nice looking game, possibly one of Psikyo's best from that early 2000's era.
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From Wikipedia:
"Dragon Blaze is a shoot 'em up arcade game developed and published in 2000 by Psikyo. It was ported to the PlayStation 2 as part of Taito's Psikyo Shooting Collection Vol. 3: Sol Divide & Dragon Blaze compilation in 2005. The game was later also released on its own as a budget range title for the PlayStation 2 in Europe by 505 Games on 2006. In 2018 the game was ported to the Nintendo Switch by ZeroDiv as part of their series of re-releases of classic Psikyo games. Not to be confused with the unrelated Dragon Blaze game by Gamevil.
Dragon Blaze plays like many typical 2D vertically scrolling shooters by Psikyo, although this game is closer to the bullet hell genre than most of the company's other output and the colour of the enemies' bullets has been changed from Psikyo's trademark orange to a neon purple. The game gives each character the standard normal shot, charged shot, and magic bomb, but each character (Quaid, Sonia, Ian, Rob) also rides a dragon, which can be dismounted and be used as a weapon itself. The dismounted dragon initially acts as a piercing weapon, and then remains stationary shooting until the player calls it back using the same button. It can also be used to collect items."
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