Long time ago, the Lord created Light and Chaos. He gave them souls, and thus two gods were born, the Spirit of Light and the Prince of Darkness. But the latter, envious of his father's power, learned the language of creation and attempted to bring a new demonic race to life. However, the creatures disobeyed their master. In the ensuing chaos, a sorceress named Ianna called forth a hero, who banished the Darkness, but was slain himself. Now, the time has come for four new heroes to obtain an ancient powerful weapon and destroy the forces of Darkness once and for all.

Blade of Darkness is a third-person action game with an emphasis on melee battles and combo attacks, similar to those found in fighting games. The player can choose to control any of the four available characters: the barbarian Tukaram, the dwarf Naglfar, the knight Sargon, and the Amazon Zoe. Each character has his/her unique strengths, weaknesses, fighting skills. Starting locations are also different in the four scenarios.

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Alternate Titles

"黑暗之刃" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
"Severance: Blade of Darkness" -- European title
"Blade: The Edge of Darkness" -- Spanish title
"Blade" -- Working title

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User Reviews

Entertaining, but a bit stale	ShadowShrike (311)
Bloody and tough melee fighting for hardcore gamers	Joku Ugo (6)
A very repetitive and difficult bloody action hack 'n slash adventure which wasn't that much fun, really.	kbmb (399)
It's so difficult I like it.	Martin L (11)
Awesome adventure game, somewhat excessive amounts of gore.	Lord Matthias (18)	unrated
Supreme Lighting & Transformation Effects	Muhammad Jasim (1)	unrated
One of the great, best, difficult, adventurous and high graphics game. It's environments are very beautiful.	Atif Shahid (22)
One of the greatest action games to date!	Gabriel (112)	unrated

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The Press Says

ComputerGamers.com	Mar 28, 2001	94 out of 100	94
VicioJuegos.com	Apr 30, 2005	90 out of 100	90
Power Unlimited	Mar, 2001	8.7 out of 10	87
GameZone	Mar 16, 2001	8.5 out of 10	85
Fragland.net	Sep 18, 2002	84 out of 100	84
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Mar, 2001	83 out of 100	83
Computer Games Magazine	Mar 14, 2001		80
GameBoomers	2002	75 out of 100	75
Gamer's Pulse	Mar 21, 2001	73 out of 100	73
ESC Magazine	Apr 16, 2001	7 out of 10	70

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Trivia

Cancelled Xbox port

There was a Xbox port project directed by Carlos García Cordero planned, but Rebel Act went bankrupt before it was finished.

German index

On September 29, 2001, Blade of Darkness was put on the infamous German index by the BPjS. For more information about what this means and to see a list of games sharing the same fate, take a look here: BPjS/BPjM indexed games.

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This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by Kasey Chang (3664) on Feb 21, 2001.