July 7, 1993

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BMG Interactive Entertainment Crystal Dynamics D4 Enterprise Funcom Japan Home Video Co. JVC M2 Monolith Corp. Playtronic Saurus Sega SNK SNK Playmore System Vision Takara Tec Toy

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Fighting

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The game was designed to illustrate the terror of fighting weapon-to-weapon and the impact of fighting with a sword. Thus, being hit by a weapon does significant damage to the opposing player. This punishing difficulty faced criticism during the game's development. As noted by series creator Yasushi Adachi:

"There was a lot of internal criticism about deducting so much life gauge with one attack. SNK management said this design had to be changed, but I thought it was very interesting to have players fight under the risk and fear of fighting with weapons and feel the destructive force of the sword, so I ignored them and kept it in the game."

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