Descpription:
The Last Blade is a fighting game series created
by SNK for the Neo Geo system. The title in Japanese roughly
means Romance of the Bakumatsu: The Swordsman of Moonlight.
The Korean version of the game is known as "The Last Soldier".
The first game in the series is also the first game that
Daisuke Ishiwatari (of Guilty Gear fame) worked on.
The Last Blade and its sequel are widely considered to be two of
the most accomplished games available for the Neo Geo system, with
fan opinion divided as to which is the better installment.
The game takes place during the late Tokugawa shogunate era in
Japan, and incorporates various elements of Japanese mythology
(with a heavy emphasis on the symbology of the Four Symbols).
As such, the background music generally incorporates synthesized
instruments simulating a sound appropriate to the 19th century setting,
in a Western classical, pseudo-Romantic style (unusual for a fighting game).
