Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein

aka: Star Gladiator 2: Nightmare of Bilstein, Star Gladiator Episode:II

Moby ID: 17154

Released

March 1998 on Arcade

Credits

53 people

Releases by Date (by platform)

1998 (Arcade)
1999 (Dreamcast)

Publishers

Capcom Co., Ltd.

Developers

Capcom Co., Ltd.

Moby Score

6.1

#20,465 of 24.3K

Critics

57% (17)

Players

(8)

Review Ranking

#229 on Dreamcast

Collected By

38 players

Genre: Action
Gameplay: Fighting
Setting: Sci-fi / futuristic

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$69.90 used on Amazon
$75.00 used, $389.97 new on eBay

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Description official description

Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein is the successor of Star Gladiator released for Playstation. Like its predecessor it was first released on Arcade before being ported to the Dreamcast.

The game features 22 anime-like characters in a 3-dimensional futuristic world, except for the backgrounds and the menus, which are plain 2D bitmaps without a lot of movement. The stages are unlimited in all directions, so it's not possible to fall off the edge. The speciality of this game are the so called "plasma moves", visually very appealing special moves which fill the screen and can be executed when you have collected enough "plasma power". Despite of the 22 characters there are only 11 different move layouts, as one layout is shared by two characters.

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Credits (Arcade version)

53 People (45 developers, 8 thanks) · View all

Narrator / Vector	Osamu Hosoi (uncredited)
Hayato	Toshiyuki Morikawa (uncredited)
June / Ele	Yukari Tamura (uncredited)
Saturn / Prince	Katsuya Shiga (uncredited)
Gamof / Bilstein / Gantetsu	Daisuke Gōri (uncredited)
Gerelt / Zelkin / Omega / Eagle	Isshin Chiba (uncredited)
Gore / Blood / Shaker / Byakko / Rai-on	Wataru Takagi (uncredited)
Claire / Luca / Rain / Kaede	Michiko Neya (uncredited)
Director	Yoichiro Ikeda (as Satsuma (Ikeda)) Takayoshi Terada
Main Programmer	Hiro (as Hiro)
Demo Programmer	Hero Hero (as Hero Hero) Shigeru Kato (as S.K ♥Sigeru Kato♥)
Player Programmer	Hero Hero (as Hero Hero) Hiro (as Hiro) Shigeru Kato (as S.K ♥Sigeru Kato♥) Masaki Kataoka (as ♨Masaki Kataoka♨)
Programmer	Yoshihiro Shindome Kohei Akiyama Ryoma Ikeda (as CHABIN type M) Yuichi Kagawa (‘Okaz’) Fuku2 (Fuku 2)
Obj-Effect	Hiroki Shibaki (as Shiba-H)
Obj-Motion	Naoki Fukushima Kenichi Ueda (Ken)
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Reviews

Critics

Average score: 57% (based on 17 ratings)

Players

Average score: 3.5 out of 5 (based on 8 ratings with 0 reviews)

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Game added by Iggi.

Arcade added by Kohler 86.

Additional contributors: Freeman.

Game added April 2, 2005. Last modified March 27, 2024.