is a one-on-one fighting

Fighting game

Fighting game is a video game genre where the player controls an on-screen character and engages in close combat with an opponent. These characters tend to be of equal power and fight matches consisting of several rounds, which take place in an arena. Players must master techniques such as...

 arcade game

Arcade game

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 developed and published by Fuuki

Fuuki

, is a video game production company headquartered in Yamashina Ward, Kyoto, Japan. It was founded in January 1977 by Fukiko Takahashi.-Notable works:* Mosaic* Go! Go! Mile Smile* Gyakuten!! Puzzle Ban-Chō* Asura Blade: Sword of Dynasty...

. The game series served as Fuuki's first attempt in the fighting genre, and part of their brief stint at arcade game manufacturing. It was followed by a sequel titled Asura Buster: Eternal Warriors

Asura Buster: Eternal Warriors

is a one-on-one fighting arcade game developed and published by Fuuki It is the sequel to the arcade game, Asura Blade: Sword of Dynasty.-External links:* at * at arcade-history...

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Characters

The game features eight playable characters, and two bosses.

• Rose Mary: A woman wearing a tight outfit and wielding a demonic sword. She can also attack with demons for short attack bursts, and create a temporary duplicate of the blade.

• Lightning: A man wielding twin long blades, and as his name implies has some degree of elemental mastery with them.

• Alice: An odd girl wielding a book that gives her control over the undead.

• Yashaoh: A swordsman that wields a broadsword, and appears to be the game's protagonist.

• Taros: A large golem
  Golem
  In Jewish folklore, a golem is an animated anthropomorphic being, created entirely from inanimate matter. The word was used to mean an amorphous, unformed material in Psalms and medieval writing....
  
   not unlike Huitzil in that it can form parts of its body into various weapons.
• Zam-B: A strange hunchbacked man that wears a mask and a massive gauntlet that he uses as his primary weapon. He also has the ability to 'vomit' acid onto his opponents in a blob projectile.

• Goat: A mercenary wielding a large black zweihander blade, as well as a spiked mace on a chain he can swing from his other arm.

• Footee: A female martial artist who uses her feet as her weapon.

Bosses

There are the two bosses as well, and both are playable via a code at the vs. screen. However neither have actual endings, as the game will treat you as though you're playing with whatever character you selected beforehand when you beat the game.

• Curfue: A cigarette smoking man armed with a large pulse rifle
  Pulse rifle
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   that fires a laser beam of variant size, as well as having grenades he can toss at the opponent.

• S. Geist: A powerful warlord believed to wield the "Sword of Dynasty". The sword he does have though is a massive chain sword not unlike that owned by Janne from the World Heroes
  World Heroes
  is a series of fighting games created by ADK originally created for the Neo Geo MVS arcade cabinets with the assistance of SNK, though some of the games in the series were also ported to the Neo Geo AES and Neo-Geo CD platforms, as well as some non-SNK platforms such as the Super NES and the Sega...
  
   series and Ivy Valentine from the Soul Calibur
  Soul Calibur
  is a 3D, weapons-based fighting game developed by Project Soul and produced by Namco. It is the second game in the Soul series, preceeded by Soul Edge. It was released in arcades in 1998, and it ran on the Namco System 12 hardware. In 1999 it was ported to the Dreamcast with improved graphics and...
  
   series, giving him incredible range. His plan involved awakening the "Earth Dragon".

Dummied Characters

There were planned to be four more characters in the game also. Though searching through the game's coding reveals one to be Doppelganger, closer examination reveals this to only have been intended to be the mirror match character you fight in the "Your Shadow" stage, and not a real character.

• Cerberus: Cerberus was intended to appear as a bonus stage
  Bonus stage
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  in the stage called "Beast Fight". Though named after the mythical beast the dogs only have two heads and two tails instead of three, and wear a chain harness on their backs. They attack en masse, with the player scoring points depending on how many they managed to defeat when time was up. This bonus stage ended up retooled and used in the game's sequel.

• Red Dragon, Blue Dragon, Gold Dragon: Three dragons whose name appears only in the game though the Gold Dragon's sprites appear to have been completed and left in. Judging from its appearance, most of the dragon's body would have been off screen with the player having to fight its head while it attacked with fire-based attacks. The usage of this character is unknown, though a hidden character called Dragon appears in the game's sequel, only to be a glitch mirror match character. No sprites for the dragon exist in that game either.

External Links=

• Asura Blade: Sword of Dynasty at The Large Cult Fighting Game March
• Asura Blade: Sword of Dynasty at arcade-history