About
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Takeda Shingen is an early two-player Samurai-themed weapons-based brawler from Jaleco. It features extremely simple and stilted combat that was notable at the time for the amount of gore. It has a left-right button setup like Double Dragon II. It also features archery-based bonus stages.
Marquee
Story
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Trivia
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This was ported to the PC Engine, but a lot of changes were made.
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This is the earliest brawler from Jaleco, who would later go on to develop the Rushing Beat series for the SNES.
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Release Info
Developer
Jaleco
Publisher
Jaleco
Released
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Also on
Series
$series
Game
Players
2
Structure
Linear
Difficulty
Easy
Gang size
Small (4)
Variety
Bonus stages
Playtime
0:30
Combat
Buttons
Left, Right
Combos
No
Grabs
No
Dashing
No
Enemy H. Bars
No
Item Pickup
Contact
Item Stay
Fade
Weapons
N/A
Death-blow
N/A
Friendly Fire
No
Char Switch
No
Ground Hit
No
Revive
Invincibility
Restore
End of stage
Style
Art Style
Semi-realistic
Sprites
Large
Setting
Medieval Japan
Focus
Weapons
Music
Rock
Tone
Serious
Numbers
Fighters
?
Stages
?
Enemies
?
Bosses
?
Weapons
?
Lives
?
Continues
?
Extend
?
Arcade
Monitors
1 Raster CRT
Class
JAMMA
Sound
Amplified Mono
Resolution
256x224
Combat
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Enemy
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Grafix
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Sound
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Flava
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Takeda Shingen is pretty awful. Its combat is ridiculously shallow and simple, despite essentially being Renegade with swords. Its brown-heavy graphics and unremarkable music make for poor presentation. Furthermore, it's extremely short and easy. The archery part is cool though.
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