Blades of Time is a Hack/Slash action adventure game following Ayumi, a sword wielding treasure hunter, through Dragon Land, a mystical world of fantasy, treasure and danger.
pon reaching Dragon Land after interrupting a ritual to transport to the world by her Guild Master, Ayumi is beset by fantastical beasts, living statues and some very annoying boulder flinging floating gargoyles. On the beginning of her journey to find her gun wielding side-kick Zero, she comes across a statue which imbues her with magical powers, most notably the ability to time jump. This ability makes up the core of the game’s unique gameplay and allows you to ‘jump’ back in time, essentially creating a clone of yourself to help fight of hordes of attackers, or simply get to a door which closed on you with moments to spare.
Blades of Time launched 10 years ago today, and has been all-but forgotten since. That's a shame however, as it had some interesting ideas.
I actually enjoyed what I played of the (prequel, I think?) X-Blades. It had some really rough edges, but what was there was quite fun to be fair.
X-Blades was the first title, Blades of Time was a sequel (with a very different look!).
Actually looks female, I almost forgot they did character designs like that back in the day.
Said the same thing myself. I run into lots of games nowadays that try to run as far away from what a female looks like (some games are even afraid to call them female in character creation lol).
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The only "problem" the game had was that its only real selling point was an attractive female.
It's an okay game, not the best, but not the worst either. I found that the game got annoying towards the end, especially that final boss fight. But hey, compared to X-Blades? Blades of Time is a huge improvement. Just look at the cover art!
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Blades of Time was a mess of a game in 2012. In 2019 for the Nintendo Switch, it hasn’t seen many, if any upgrades. You’re better off skipping this game.
Why anyone would buy this on a system that has access to Bayonetta and Bayonetta 2 i'll never know.
This was a mediocre game that was not well received and never sold well. Humble Bundle even had it for a $1.00 at one point. Let's remaster it for Switch? Why?
Blades of Time is a title that most won't remember from the Xbox 360 and PS3 era of consoles. It's an action oriented platformer that didn't get a ton of attention during its initial release.
