Hagane: The Final Conflict
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| Developer(s) | Red Entertainment |
| Publisher(s) | Hudson |
| Designer(s) | Keita Amemiya |
| Composer(s) | Takahito Abe |
| Platforms | Super Nintendo |
| Release date(s) | JP November 18, 1994[1] NA June 1995[1] EU 1995[1] |
| Genre(s) | Action, side-scroller |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
Hagane: The Final Conflict (鋼 Hagane?, lit. "Steel") is a 1994 side-scrolling dystopian sci-fi action video game developed by Red Entertainment and published by Hudson for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The game was released in Japan on November 18, 1994, in North America in June of 1995 and in Europe in 1995.
Gameplay
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The game is a side-scroller, similar to the early Ninja Gaiden games. The game has no save feature.[2]
Plot
The Fuma and Koma ninja clans who live mainly in darkness have mastered the secret arts of ninjutsu and black magic. Although they look just like normal people, they have strength and spiritual power beyond normal human beings. Each clan consists of several factions. The Fuma clan is split into factions based on the Chinese zodiac. The Koma clan is split into factions by color; consisting of the white, the gold and the red dragon. In the case of the Fuma clan, members of a given faction know nothing more about any other factions except that they exist and their blood lines are cut off from the outside world and are destined to decline. The Fuma clan possesses extreme strength and spiritual power. Their duty is to protect the Holy Grail, which is said to possess power that can destroy the world. From long ago, the evil Koma clan had plotted to destroy the world using the destructive power of Holy Grail.
Eventually, they attacked a faction of the Fuma clan and stole the Holy Grail. However, they failed to notice that among the severely wounded, one man survived... On the verge of death, the barely living man known as Hagane was brought back to life by advanced cyber-technology performed by a mysterious old man named Momochi. However, none of Hagane's body survived except his brain. Already a powerful ninja, he now had the incredible power and speed of a human cyborg. With this power, he vowed to take revenge on the Koma faction.
At the end of the conflict and having destroyed the Koma faction's complex, Hagane overlooks the scene from a cliff outcropping, satisfied. His purpose fulfilled, Hagane's glowing eyes fade to black and he passes on. As the credits roll, time and nature claim his seated form and rust his katana as a nearby tree grows unhindered by the blackened land.
Development
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Reception
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Nintendo Power praised the game's challenging gameplay, non-stop action and good play control, but criticized its sub-par graphics (for looking "like a good NES game").[2] GamePro also complimented the play control, as well as the player character's variety of special moves, but criticized that the music "is techno Japanese rock at its most mundane" and that the graphics are impressive but lose their appeal due to their repetitiveness. They concluded the game to be good but unexceptional apart from its nostalgia value, and worthwhile only as a rental.[3]
References
External links
- Hagane: The Final Conflict at MobyGames
- Hagane: The Final Conflict at SNES Music
- Hagane: The Final Conflict at Hardcore Gaming 101
