Cruise Chaser Blassty
| Cruise Chaser Blassty | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Square |
| Publisher(s) | Square |
| Designer(s) |
Hironobu Sakaguchi Kazuhiko Aoki |
| Composer(s) | Takashi Uno Nobuo Uematsu |
| Platform(s) | NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-9801, Sharp X1 |
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| Genre(s) | Role-playing game |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
Cruise Chaser Blassty (Japanese: クルーズチェイサーブラスティー Hepburn: Kurūzu Cheisā Burasutī?) is a science fiction role-playing video game developed by Square for various Japanese computers, including the NEC PC-8801, PC-9801, and Sharp X1. The game featured mecha originally designed by Mika Akitaka and musical contributions by Nobuo Uematsu, being the very first video game he wrote music for. The game had an unusual battle system, which involved the player controlling a customizable mecha robot from a first-person view. It followed a group of young people from Earth caught up in a war between a solar-system spanning government and a group of rebels. After release, the game's story was adapted to a manga and serialized, then released as a pair of standalone books. The manga received a sequel, though the game itself did not.
The game is played through a first-person perspective, with a role-playing battle system and the ability to customize the player's mecha. The bottom of the screen shows various gauges and power levels of the mecha's systems, while the majority of the screen shows the current view of the mecha. The player flies the mecha through space, coming across groups of enemy spaceships. Battle in these cases is handled through a series of text boxes, in which the player decides how much of their available power to spend on an attack, and then the results of the attack are displayed. When the player encounters an enemy mecha instead, the main screen is split into two, with each half showing either the player or enemy mecha. The player selects their attack type via a menu, and simple animations play out on each half of the screen, one at a time, to show the attack and the results.
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