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Tengai

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Game Description

Sengoku Blade, also popularly known as Tengai, is an horizontal-scrolling shoot'em up game produced by Psikyo and originally released in Japanese arcades in 1996 as a sequel to Sengoku Ace (1993).

Later, a home console version was also released for the Sega Saturn on November 22 of that same year. Tengai also was ported together with Sengoku Ace as a collection edition to playStation in 2004 and released for Android and IOS mobiles devices ten years later. As a curiosity, Tengai also had manga adaptation which was published on August 4, 1996.

Tengai sets in an imaginative and futuristic version of feudal Japan featuring traditional ninjas, demons and magic steam-powered machinery with steam-driven weapons. On gameplay, you can chose five playable characters and two ones who are hidden initially. In addition, game has items include a power-up to increase weapon power level, bombs, and bonus coins to increase score.

Tengai was praised from his unique graphical style and detail and compared the game favorably to Psikyo's earlier shooter Gunbird and given a score of 8 out of 10 as a shooter.