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There, the game was called Power Mission and featured different character sprites from the finished version; Nintendo Power magazine called the game "mega action in the tradition of Mega Man II."
In 2009, IGN placed the title on their "Top 100 NES Games" list at #82.
In 1991, an overseas version of the game, Power Blade (POWER BLADE), was released, with a different design for the hero and major changes to the weapon system and the maps.
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu,the game scored a total of 23 out of 40. In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Family Computer Magazine,it scored 17.13 out of 30, as shown below.
Power Blade is a reworked and localized version of the Japanese Family Computer game Power Blazer, which was released also by Taito on .
Power Blade first received coverage in the Western markets when it was first displayed at the Summer 1990 Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago.
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