Sword of Honour (video game)

1992 video game

1992 video game

Sword of Honour

Developer(s)| Dynafield Systems
Publisher(s)| Electric Boys Entertainment
Platform(s)| Amiga, Commodore 64, DOS
Release| 1992
Genre(s)| Action-adventure

Sword of Honour is an action-adventure video game developed by Dynafield Systems in 1992 for the Amiga, Commodore 64 and PC DOS systems. The game took almost three years to finish.

## Gameplay

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Sword of Honour combines the action-adventure oriented gameplay of the 1987 game The Last Ninja with the side-scrolling perspective of the 1986 games Ninja (aka Ninja Mission) and Fist II: The Legend Continues, and the icon-based controls of the 1987 game Barbarian. The player fights enemies (either in unarmed combat or with the aid of ninjatō, kusarigama, tekagi-shuko, shuriken and kunai), avoids traps, collects and uses items, and interacts with characters.

## Plot

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The player takes a role of an elite ninja sent for a mission to recover the stolen family sword of the fictional Shogun Yuichiro from a castle of his enemy, the evil Lord Toranaga. The ninja must retrieve the sword and punish Toranaga before Yuichiro will be forced to commit seppuku.

## Reception

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The game received mixed reviews and scores, from 86% in CU Amiga (calling it "an excellent combat title, but there is so much more in there that you would be a complete fool to miss it"), to 77% in The One and 67% in Amiga Format, to only 23% in Amiga Power (which said the game "sets a low standard, and still fails to reach it").

## See also

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* Sword of Honour (disambiguation)

## External links

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* Sword of Honour at MobyGames
* Sword of Honour at Amiga Hall of Light
* Sword of Honour at Lemon Amiga

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