Ghost Blade HD
Ghost Blade HD is an intense bullet-hell shoot 'em up game, with satisfying and addictive score-based gameplay, with its inspiration going back to the shooting games of the 1990s era, Ghost Blade HD ties old…
Ghost Blade HD is an arcade developed by Hucast Games, released 28 February 2017 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Wii U and Xbox One.
What Ghost Blade HD is
Ghost Blade HD is an arcade game developed by Hucast Games and released in 2017. It was published by 2Dream. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
10,000 years ago an Artificial Intelligence known as Shira was built to protect the residents of Mars. As time passed the AI became corrupted and Shira started to attack the Mars colonies. With no way to defend itself against ‘Evil Shira’ Mars calls for help. The Earth Defense Force fleet fights its way to ‘Evil Shira’ and uses powerful lasers to destroy it. However, ‘Evil Shira’ secretly had a backup that flees into space and takes over an abandoned space station at the outskirts of the solar system. When the EDF notices the escape they send their bravest fighter after ‘Evil Shira’. You are this pilot, and your mission is to destroy Evil Shira before it can complete its new attack force…
How it plays
Its themes are action and science fiction. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 38 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Ghost Blade HD holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 46% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored about average for its year.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo or higher, 1 GB RAM and 512MB GeForce 310, Radeon HD 5470 or better. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Ghost Blade HD launched on 28 February 2017, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, Mass Effect: Andromeda and NieR: Automata. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, Mass Effect: Andromeda, NieR: Automata.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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