Sword of Honour
- Date
- 1992
- Genre
- action-adventure game
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• Title — Sword of Honour • Developer — Dynafield Systems • Publisher — Electric Boys Entertainment • Released — 1992 • Platforms — Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS • Genre — Action-adventure Sword of Honour is an action-adventure video game developed by Dynafield Systems. It was published in 1992 by Electric Boys Entertainment for the Amiga, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS. The game took almost three years to develop.
Gameplay
Sword of Honour combines the action-adventure oriented gameplay of the 1987 game The Last Ninja with the side-scrolling perspective of the 1986 games Ninja (aka Ninja Mission) and Fist II: The Legend Continues, and the icon-based controls of the 1987 game Barbarian. The player fights enemies (either in unarmed combat or with the aid of ninjatō, kusarigama, tekagi-shuko, shuriken, and kunai), avoids traps, collects and uses items, and interacts with characters.
Plot
The player takes a role of an elite ninja sent for a mission to recover the stolen family sword of the fictional Shogun Yuichiro from a castle of his enemy, the evil Lord Toranaga. The ninja must retrieve the sword and punish Toranaga before Yuichiro will be forced to commit seppuku.
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Reception
The game received mixed reviews and scores, from 86% in CU Amiga (calling it "an excellent combat title, but there is so much more in there that you would be a complete fool to miss it"), to 77% in The One and 67% in Amiga Format, to only 23% in Amiga Power (which said the game "sets a low standard, and still fails to reach it").
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A genuine story, delivered by the oraculous ship. An epistle to Miss M--- W--- on her late acquired honour. The art of fencing; or The use of the small sword. Recommended to all Gentlemen, but particularly to the Soldiery. To which is annexed, a short, but very useful memorial for sword-men.
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