THSC Brave Blade (2000) (Arcade)

It was my turn to choose the next challenge in the Tubers High Score Challenge, I wanted a shmup I hadn't played before and after a few hours trawling through some obscure ones on Mame I came across Brave Blade. Released by Raizing in 2000 it was to be their final shmup before they moved on to develop fighting games, featuring a unique gameplay style compared to every other Raizing game. Each of the selectable ships have two distinct modes, each controlled by a separate button. While in Fighter Mode the ship controls like any other shmup ship, having both a frontal shot and sub-shot which are fired by pressing the first button. By pressing the second button the ship will change into Mecha Mode, which attacks with a melee weapon whenever the player presses the second button. Pressing the first button again reverts the ship back to Fighter Mode.
This game is more of a slash em up than a shmup, depends how you wanna play it, I was playing for points so was concentrating on getting as many high scoring medals as I could which always resulted in many lives lost trying to grab em amongst the chaos! Anyway, after many attempts here's a run I'm quite happy with....

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