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Essential for fighting game historians and spacing enthusiasts; skip if tutorials and rollback netcode matter to you.
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About The Last Blade
I went in expecting a museum piece, but The Last Blade is genuinely sharp. This 1995 arcade fighter trades the speed of Street Fighter for deliberate, spacing-heavy sword combat. Each character handles wildly differently, some favor fast pokes, others crushing grabs or projectiles. The depth lives in footsies and reading your opponent's stance, not combo extensions. Online is barebones by modern standards, but the netcode holds up for casual play. The catch: this is a niche fighting game from SNK's golden age, ported with minimal modern QoL. No rollback netcode, no tutorial that explains frame advantage, no ranked ladder. If you're already comfortable with fighting game fundamentals and hungry for something that plays like nothing else on Steam, the weapon-based system clicks fast. Everyone else will bounce off in five minutes.
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System Requirements
Minimum
- Processor
- Pentium 4 2.4Ghz
- Memory
- 1 GB RAM
- Graphics
- Intel HD Graphics
- DirectX
- Version 9.0c
- Storage
- 500 MB available space
Recommended
- Processor
- 2 GHz Dual Core
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 640
- DirectX
- Version 9.0c
- Storage
- 500 MB available space
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Game Info
- Developer
- SNK CORPORATION, Dotemu
- Publisher
- SNK CORPORATION
- Release Date
- Aug 31, 2016