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Power Blade 2

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Also known as
Captain Saver Power Blade II キャプテンセイバー

A cyborg operative battles through six nonlinear stages, using wits and weapons to destroy a rogue foundation.

Power Blade 2 (Captain Saver) was released for the NES in 1992 by Taito; it is the original game and was not released on any earlier platform.


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Released
1992
Genre
Perspective
Side view
Visual
2D scrolling
Size
256.02 KB
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About Power Blade 2

Power Blade 2 is set in the year 2200, where a corporation called the Delta Foundation has created a new cyborg combat unit. The government, led by a president who is secretly an alien, views this as a security threat and dispatches an operative named Nova to eliminate the Foundation, operating without official backing to maintain deniability.

The gameplay involves progressing through six distinct stages, each selected at the outset. Once a stage is chosen, players must see it through to completion before accessing another. The action requires navigating environmental dangers like spikes and fire, utilizing moves such as sliding through narrow passages and using fans to reach higher platforms.

Every stage concludes with a unique boss encounter. The final challenge requires facing all previous bosses again before a confrontation with the alien leader, making the overall progression challenging.

Power Blade 2 Screenshots

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Title
Title screen (JP).
Intro (JP).
Stage Select
Stage 1
Nova on a moving platform
The halfway-through-stage boss
Going up...
Dead
A fembot