They feel like the exact thing this game was made for. They feel like any fun platform-based GBA game boss from Kirby, specifically, where you just beat the baddie until it’s dead. Bosses never focused on learning or unlearning a certain skill, you were just meant to slice and dice through them while avoiding their attacks. This system of fun first levels persists for the first 9 boss battles. These boss battles are fun, easy to fight, easy to cheese your way through. Foreground elements that obstruct traps and enemies make it more difficult to complete each side quest, requiring more time to complete each level, lowering your score. So are superfluous keys and doors and dead ends that waste your time. Within the Blade suffers from an extreme case of consistency Issues. The first levels before the Metroidvania-type maps are introduced are the best levels in the game by far. Your goal is known from second 1: move to the other side of the screen, killing people and completing the side quests listed on your way. You didn’t have to worry about dead ends, and you were simply meant to lay waste to the land. As you move past these levels, however, maps are introduced. A Measure of Everything You’ve Learned We’ll be right back. While Within the Blade features a rather extensive and complicated crafting system, managing your inventory is an absolute nightmare. Selecting things that aren’t the arrows on either side of the screen or a weapon leaves you with no cursor, and no real way of knowing which of these squares on the grid you’re actually sitting on! Managing my weapons, healing potions, and supplies became way more of a hassle than it needed to be. A similar case can be made for shops where there is a little more context as the name of the item is shown for each one you’ve selected, but it would be WAY more helpful if there were a cursor of some kind to help guide it. WITHIN THE BLADE GAME FULLThe others are usually side quests that add difficulty to each level. It pays to explore each tile in the mapped levels with this in mind, because even if there are dead ends, there’s more than likely an enemy you’re meant to kill or a shrine you’re meant to smash there. Also, treasure chests which can hold anything from money, to a full inventory of an explosive or trap item to use. Most of your time in this game is spent going through each level completing the quests that appear on the top right of the screen. The Gold ones are usually main objectives. WITHIN THE BLADE GAME UPGRADEWithin the Blade is a rather fun mashup of several elements of gaming genres. You have RPG elements where you can upgrade your stats, learn new abilities, reduce damage from incoming attacks, straight up win every fight, and more. There’s crafting, which you can use to create healing items, weapons, and traps. Finally, there’s the Action Platformer side, with slight hints that stealth is important to some degree. Traps, Craps, and Cursor Mishaps This type of upgrade layout is my favorite This, again, is not a weak spot because you can fill in the blank spots with interesting characters, missions to complete, and learning more about your enemies as you draw closer to them. Within the Blade knew it had a short, basic, but understandable story and main goal and instead decided to focus on gameplay features. With the final battle being telegraphed in the very first cutscene of the game, anything between where you begin and where you end is fluff to fill in with fun. Other members will be constantly in need of rescue and/or die on the field, and they are mostly meant for upgrades and shopkeeping. This doesn’t hinder my enjoyment of the game, but I do wish I could have seen these guys do more than be captured, pop in and out of places I had to roll through spikes to get to, and die. You and your band of ninjas named the Black Lotus, must stop them. As you can imagine, this means you are the only qualified member of the team. The evil side has summoned some demons to help their war effort. The story of Within the Blade is rather simple: There is a war in Japan. Hunter Killer Thriller They’re Filled with Pizza Japan’s time of peace is slowly descending into war as evil forces summon armies made of killers, blood monks, and demons. The only way to restore balance and stop the bloodshed of the innocent is with… more bloodshed. Take up the role of a Ninja named Heideki and travel the countryside, slicing your enemies into pieces with various weapons in an attempt to restore balance to not only Japan but the world! Thus begins our review of Within the Blade for the Nintendo Switch. Introducing: Within the Blade Nintendo Switch Review
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