

Why aren’t we being overwhelmed by Last Blade sequels? 8. SNK 2, but that’s not enough. It’s been 16 years since the last game. The character Hibiki got to show up in Capcom vs. It played great, it looked great, and was only held back by some vanilla character designs. After years of doing Samurai Shodown sequels, SNK let loose with a different kind of sword-slashing historical Japanese fighting game that had a more impressive look than Shodownand simply felt grander. There were only two installments of Last Blade?! Really?! Like, I realize the three games I’ve already mentioned are sub-par at best (and Time Killers at worst), but Last Blade was so good. I’m kind of tired of SoulCalibur feeling like more of the same every time, so maybe it’s time we give Mordos Kull another chance. The game never really caught on, which is a shame, since it had a good foundation for a sequel to build on. It also had a giant chicken as a hidden character, which somehow led to it having a hidden character appearance in Gauntlet Legends.

Even when you remove the Fatalities (called “Executions” here), you had an executioner, a knight from the bowels of Hell, a zombie crusader, a dwarf riding a steam-powered mech, and an impressive-looking demon boss who was so massive that only his top half appears out of a portal in the ground. The story was incredibly similar to Soul Edge in that it was also about medieval warriors fighting over an evil weapon of ultimate power, only it was definitely more metal. Developed by Atari, the fighter played like the Soul Edge games with a Mortal Kombat atmosphere. If you’re a fighting game fan who owned a Nintendo 64 but not a Playstation, then there’s a 95% chance you’ve played Mace: The Dark Age. MACE: THE DARK AGEġ997 | Atari Games & Midway Games | N64, Arcade Just get some CGI that looks clay-like and we don’t have to worry about all that choppy animation that plagued the old games. It was going to be updated for the WiiWare a few years ago, but that fell through. A somewhat more polished version called ClayFighter: Sculptor’s Cut came out as a Blockbuster exclusive rental, but that didn’t exactly set the world on fire.
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The series pretty much died when ClayFighter 63 1/3 got delayed into oblivion and finally came out as a crap game that felt unfinished because it totally was.
