Power Blade 2 (NES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- A playthrough of Taito's 1992 action-platformer for the NES, Power Blade 2.
Taking place directly after the events of the first Power Blade ( • Power Blade (NES) Play... ), the sequel has you reprising the role of Nova, a superwarrior with a boomerang who just happens to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. It is the year 2200, and a company named Delta has created a fighting cyborg that it offers to sell the US government. In response, the government, citing concerns over "national security," orders Nova to destroy the company.
Now a state-sponsored terrorist, Nova arrives at Delta's facility ready to lay waste to anything standing in the way of America's aggressively paranoid sense of self-entitlement.
And of course, it's Christmas Eve, because...Die Hard and Lethal Weapon, I guess?
Similar to the Mega Man games, you can choose the order in which you wish to tackle the first four stages, and each of these areas contain a power suit that can be used at anytime proving you have enough power. There is the newt suit (allows you to climb and hang from smooth surfaces), the Rocket suit (allows for hovering and flying), the Wet suit (allows for better maneuverability in water), and the Patriot suit (provides armored satellite barriers for added protection). The stages can be beaten in any order, but as you might expect, having the ideal suit unlocked can make some of these areas much easier to get through. And because the suits upgrade your weapon to a strong wave that can pass through walls, the boss fights tend to be trivial affairs with the right one equipped.
The gameplay is similar to the original Power Blade, but it has seen a few important tweaks. Your suits are permanent pickups in the sequel, and can be selected at anytime instead of having to be found in the area you want to use them in. The stage design is also much more linear in the sequel - unlike the first game, none of these stages contain any alternate paths.
Nova can shoot in eight directions, and with the abilities provided by the suits, he can easily handle any situation he finds himself in. I really liked his adaptability and the ease with which he can get around the environments. All of his advantages make Power Blade 2 quite easy as far as NES action games go, but however imbalanced, the action feels great thanks to the smooth controls.
But why does the first level start with you running to the left? That was really unexpected.
It is also a nice looking and sounding game. It wasn't anything Earth-shattering being so late in the NES's life-cycle, but the sprites look good, the colors are bright and provide good contrast for the player and enemy characters, and the soundtrack is catchy and energetic.
I can't in good conscience recommend anyone go out and spend hundreds of dollars on a loose cartridge, but if you have another means of playing it, then I absolutely recommend giving Power Blade 2 a shot.
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Hah, my favourite game in those days. First time I played it I've no idea you can switch suites, so I completed game with just no-suit hero with boomerangs. It was unbelievable hard, but I did it. Still proud of myself, after all these years!
I had this back in my days. So good. I always liked non-linear way of playing game + upgrades.
Bro sorry i know you personally you were only non linear on games not upgrades. 😱
Leave it to the NES to feature a game where the unlicensed likeness of Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a terrorist at the behest of the US government. It's a great play, but that price tag....ouch!
This predates that mecha game on XBox that spoofs America. Talk about biting the hand. No wonder parents weren't sold on this one. Is it on any sort of later software collection?
-NintendoComplete.-That´s great!-this game is inspired in some movie of Arnold?
Here's the kicker Agent Boomerang: In your secret mission we need you to destroy the "enemy" base. If you destroy the "enemy" base we can get them to sell them the technology to us at a far cheaper rate. We can invade those Red Commie's "both ones" for cheap that way with minimal bloodshed. We of course are hush hush on this. Ready? Yes sir Mr. President! Good boy Agent Boomerang!
Yeah, the story in this is bizarre. A company offers to sell the state a new technology, so the government response is to send a commando in to destroy the company and kill its employees! I know there's an implied threat in the intro of Delta selling the technology to a "foreign government", but surely that could be dealt with through legislation or an executive action rather than state-sanctioned murder of people just trying to make a legal living! This must be one of those rare games where you actually play as the bad guy...
Waitaminute... is this a reskin of "Cobra"? Look at what he's driving! Also, I really dig the music.
Ahh yes, the days where almost every main character in an action video game looked like Arnold.
2200 Xmas Eve, Still 179 years to go...
When I saw the thumbnail I thought it was a port of Duke Nukem for NES!!
Christmas eve, year 2200...its gonna be awesome when someone plays this then, and posts it to the new media sharing stream. Lol
By that time (assuming humanity is still around) they will probably have neural link streams instead, hahah. Funny thing, there have been quite a few Raid 2020 playthroughs this year. Gotta keep up with the times, and all that!
You blew my mind man, thanks!
In 2200 Arnold still can say "Damn i'm looking good!"
Apparently, the Aliens in need of some serious cash money from Earth to invade Earth...Okay, we can go with that!
Of course, because the universe trades in earth currency, right?
Is that... Is that a bootleg Clint Eastwood? And a bootleg Freddie Mercury? And a bootleg Arnold???
One of the NES games I missed out on as I had moved on to the SNES and couldn't afford games for both systems. Looks like fun.
Had no idea that there was a sequel. Missed opportunity from my childhood😢😢
I had no idea there was a power blade 🤣🤣🤣
I love Power Blade, but I like this one a little bit more. My favorite stage is the number 3 and its music
Great game Power Blade 2 is NC. We never returned the game back at Blockbuster video and they never notified us regarding it. Now that I look at Taito titles for the NES in it's later years and how much money they gone up in value, I'm glad we still kept it.
I hear that! I've got a boxed Bubble Bobble 2 that I'm glad I still have :)
Has a castlevania / mega man feel
Game of my brother's childhood ;)
В детстве, я просто ох. ел(это мягко сказано) от этой игры и музыкального сопровождения, который как мне казалось тогда, да и сейчас с каждым уровнем, лишь улучшался) разрабам пожизнененный респектос) 👍
[Stage 6]
Hey, Konami called. They want their final stage of Contra back!
So alot of people think this Arnold Schwartzenegger is a terrorist but during the last level the agent your character meets literally tells you that the guy trying to sell these suits to the government is an alien and all the places you blow up don't have any human people in them,that's not a terrorist plot bro . That's the plot of men in black /Terminator lol . Just thought I'd set the record straight on the exact plot of this game .
Muchísima nostalgia al ver este gameplay
15:12 to 15:18, i see what you did over there🤣🤣🤣🤣
Looks cool and the music is great!
Stage 3 was mos def a banger best level music in the game
Power Blade = Masterpiece. Power Blade 2 = Mixture of Turtles + Duck Tales.
How did Jacqueline escape?
Good game
stage 4 ost always make me sad, i don't know why.
Many of these blonde, buzzcut, sunglasses wearing, muscle bound, manly men in video games are based off Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Am I hearing the mario 3 snare drums at the opening cutscene?
i think i couldnt get past the 3rd level, cuz i didn't know you could change into suits
Game saat ane masih tk dulu Sekarang dah usia 28, hadeh nostalgia beud
Love music from stage 3 !
Played this on 0.75 speed, just remind me accurately when play it on my console😂
Why weren't games on the SMS, 25% as good as this ?
Why weren't games on the SNES 25% as good as this....
@@2kBofFun - *BECAUSE SEGA SUCKS AND HAS ALWAYS SUCKED AND NOW HAS 0 CONSOLES*
@@cobrakainevereverdies6940 No idea what Sega has to do with the SNES, but OK. I think it is smart they stopped making consolesm software is where the money is made. But back to the SNES, games for the SNES really suck compared to NES titles, everybit as much as your post that NES outperformed SMS. Again, SMS beat the Mega Drive in key games like Sonic. So we can conclude 8-bit won from 16-bit. That may also proof why the PC Engine was so good, as it was an 8bit on steroids.
The game was really hard when I’d played it even with the Game Genie. Those last levels were BRUTAL!
This must be thr origin of Guile. The resemblance of sonicbooms are uncanny.
Brilliant game, love the Nes:)
arnold schwarzenegger as megaman
first game i ever had
Guile?! Clint Eastwood?! Fuck that! *_THAT'S DUKE NUKEM!!_*
Corporation, being uncharacteristically reasonable with it's patron nation: "We spent a metric crapton of cash on developing this shiny new monument to not enuf dakka. Please buy it so we don't have to sell it to someone else."
'Murica, being 'Murica on a day ending in 'y': "No lol. Boomerang Mega Man, go forth and destroy. Don't question it, just do it. Because we don't know either."
Boomerang Mega Man: "Yes my tallness!"
Is there no PAL version of this game?
Chill Music arhh
Is this an emulator or actual nintendo console.... ???
Why does this video have dislikes?
Thanks for liking
Probably cause of being one of the rarest nes games
Is just me or there was a common "engine" among a bunch NES games, from different developers, mostly Japanese, with the same type of graphics and sound?
Not really, but what do you expect from 8-bit platform?
Taito? Q paso con la desarrolladora Natsume?
That thumbnail brought me here. He’s really a Schwarzenegger look-alike.
Not just the face, but also the physical appearance.
PS : i just checked the 1st Power Blade. And i had the same impression.
did it really cost more than 100 $ ?
It was around $40-45 when it was new, but because it's rare, loose carts of the US version now regularly go for hundreds
NintendoComplete Ah OK. It just like E.T on Atari 2600.
@@luciebureau6815 Is ET worth money now? Lol I had no idea
NintendoComplete it is. With his incredible story, it’s understandable.
He is a machine from the future.
the very expensive sequel
2021 Very Nice
DUKE NUKEM 1992 😎
Crysis for Nes. With passwords
PB1 let's disarm these place and take down the super computer
PB2 let's torch these every base including alien lair
패미콤
Q juegazo boludo
i had the first one. checking this out for the first time, and this looks boring as fuck! boring stages & boring music. lame bosses too.