#cross blades

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'Cross Blades!'

[ARC] [JAPAN] [MAGAZINE] [1991]

"Irem are specialists at the sci-fi horizontal scroller, right? Thousands of Spaceships, Millions of Bullets, Total Sensory Overload. Their last release, Gunforce, (reviewed last issue) only underlined that - but now we have Blade Warrior, which is that little bit different. Think of Golden Axe, but with more sophisticated graphics and you won't go very far wrong. Irem still have a long way to go in the scenario department - the protagonists being called Roy and Arnold... something like that anyway. They are charged with the task of rescuing Arnold's Sister (Fred's Girlie) from the bad guys - standard stuff, but the implementation will draw you into it. Very well done - it's a real change for Irem - rather like Walt Disney producing a film called 'Sex Slaves of Basildon.' Whatever next - Toaplan doing a cutsie bunny game, perhaps?" ~John Cook (Sinclair User, September 1991)

Innovations in recreational electronic media... but not graphic design.

Source: Gamest, August 1991 (#61) || Internet Archive; JapaneseMagazinesScans

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DAY 824) Cross Blades - Stage 1

Composer: Takushi Hiyamuta

This game a.k.a. Blade Master has a pretty proggy ost!

Even though I’m not counting this in 10/8 (I feel it’s better understood at faster tempo) I’m doing it for 10/8 time day today because it is EXTREMELY “Tarkus” (Emerson Lake and Palmer song), which is usually written as 10/8.

(0:00 - 0:13) 12 bars of 5/8

(0:13 - 0:16) 2 bars of 6/8

(0:16 - 0:38) 19 bars of 5/8, 1 bar of 6/8

(0:38 - 0:50) 11 bars of 5/8

(0:50 - 0:58) 5 bars of 6/8, 1 bar of 7/8

(0:58 - 1:30) 18 bars of 4/4, 1 bar of 9/8

[loop]

[viciogame]

🎮 Blade Master (Arcade)

Complete Gameplay: https://youtu.be/gApSTpzjgJo

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DAY 691) Blade Master - Ending 2

Composer: Takushi Hiyamuta

Takushi Hiyamuta or “HIYA!” is a composer  really need to acknowledge more on this blog. He’s a perfect example of proggy/jazz fusiony music getting so deeply intertwined with VGM and I feel like he was also even pretty influential on a lot of sounds that people are used to hearing in game music now.

Anyways he uses odd time sigs a lot, this soundtrack is full of that kind of stuff, this one I’d transcribe as:

(0:00 - 0:08) [3 bars of 7/8, 1 bar of 6/8]x2, (rit)

(0:08 - 0:42) 16 bars of 4/4 (big rit. towards end)

(0:42 - end) 3 bars of 7/8, 1 bar of 6/8, [hold]

or something. Lots of tempo fluctiationy stuff can make it hard to write at some parts but this is what makes the most sense to me!