The Beta version shows a title
whose text is the same shape, but coloured and shaded very differently.
This version has a flat, glossy gold sheen to it. |
While the Final title has a much more carved-out bronze look. |
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The intros have different graphics, interestingly,
for Garuda. The Beta version has a menacing, evil,
lit-from-below look, with Garuda reaching out over the city. |
The Final version has a more "cheerful"
guy with a clawed, cupped hand. You can see that the hovering battleship
is different too. |
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Here, we can see that attacks in the Beta
are kick-based... |
while in the Final, they're sword-based. |
Other differences include a simple striped energy
bar... |
and different power-up container (below left). |
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Here
is a short clip of the game on YouTube, taken from a Famimaga video
in my collection:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reZPhndc0Pc#t=7m44s |
Famimaga reported on Kage in April, 1990. The game had progressed and now looked much closer to the final version, barring the old intro graphics and thin, Mega-Man-like units for the health bar. The characters now attacked with their katana and kusarigama, not their feet like the earlier version. |
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Quite interestingly, the gear graphics in Stage 2 were different-looking, more futuristic and mechanical (left) than what we got in the end (right). The cannon enemy also got recoloured. |
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