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6 | [[caption-width-right:350: The Bros are in action!]] |
7 | ''Blood Bros.'' is a 1990 arcade game developed and published by TAD Corporation in Japan and Europe as a spiritual sequel to ''VideoGame/{{Cabal}}'', with almost identical mechanics. |
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9 | The rather sparse plot takes place in TheWildWest. Two blood brothers, a cowboy and a red Indian, are sent to defeat Big John, an evil outlaw wanted for pillaging the treasure of Dodge City. |
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11 | Much like in Cabal, your characters are viewed from behind while you use a crosshair to target and shoot at enemies. Both characters have an unlimited ammo gun and limited number of [[strike: grenades]] dynamite. A "Foe" gauge at the bottom of the screen depletes as enemies and enemy structures are destroyed, and the level is completed once the gauge is empty. |
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13 | Unlike ''Cabal'', there is a button for your character to do a dodge roll instead of a trackball. But don't be fooled, this game is still very hard. |
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15 | !! Blood Bros. provides examples of: |
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17 | * AnachronismStew: Helicopters and planes from ''Cabal'' are replaced by blimps and WWI-era planes, which may be "dated" but still out of place in the older Wild West. |
18 | * ArrowsOnFire: Used by horseback-riding Indian Mooks. |
19 | * BashBrothers: The player characters, a Cowboy and a Red Indian. |
20 | --> "In life, brothers will encounter many hardships and battles. But there is nothing stronger than the force of the Blood Brothers." |
21 | * BigBad: Big Bad John. Hell, it's even in his name! Also taken literally - [[LargeAndInCharge he's taller than a train]]!!! |
22 | * ButtonMashing: In order to fire your weapon faster, it's required. Unless you got the machine-gun pickup. Can also be used to dodge grenades and bullet fire. |
23 | * CoolTrain: The first boss. You also fight one as the penultimate boss of the game. |
24 | * DolledUpInstallment: The game "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vIN-XVNzE8#! Hard Times]]" is pretty much ''Blood Bros''... with a mafia theme. Many of the levels, graphics and effects look very similar, and the enemies and bosses are just sprite replacements. |
25 | * DynamicDifficulty: Present in this game- if you manage to survive for long enough, the enemies will fire more regularly, and their shots and bombs will become a lot faster. Losing a life tones it down, but not by much. |
26 | * EvilLaugh: Used by Big Bad John ''every single time he kills you'', after he takes off his coat. It gets very annoying fast. |
27 | * ExplosiveBreeder: The bird boss has a DesperationAttack where it lays ''loads of eggs'' that hatch into small birds, each of which can attack you with fireballs! |
28 | * {{Expy}}: The second boss, a giant blimp that dropped loads of bombs, is one to the first boss of ''VideoGame/{{Cabal}}'' (a helicopter that dropped loads of bombs). |
29 | * FlunkyBoss: The first boss, a train that attacked you with many cowboy Mooks. |
30 | * GiantFlyer: Third boss, a giant bird that attack you in the middle of the desert. |
31 | * GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: The third and fourth bosses. The third boss is a giant fire-breathing bird that attacks in the middle of the desert, while the fourth is a giant fire-breathing snake that attacks you in the middle of a volcanic cave, and both explode spectacularly. Huh. |
32 | * HandCannon: Used by Big Bad John - he fires out cannonball-sized shots from his gun instead of the puny shots that regular enemies shoot at you! |
33 | * LargeAndInCharge: Big Bad John. With the emphasis on "Big"- when you beat his giant train, it explodes, revealing Big Bad John behind it. He's taller than the train itself! |
34 | * MessyPig: Well, only a tad messy for you at least. Pigs will periodically run across the screen. Shooting them makes them drop dynamite ammo, or even better, a good weapon! (In case you were wondering, the pigs don't die, they run even faster, but you can still shoot them for more drops.) |
35 | * OneHitPointWonder: Your characters can only take one hit to die. |
36 | * RecycledInSPACE: ''VideoGame/BloodBros'' is pretty much ''VideoGame/{{Cabal}}'' in the WildWest. |
37 | * RewardingVandalism: Like ''VideoGame/{{Cabal}}'', destroying the environment can net you powerups, points, and dynamite. As well as lowering the enemy gauge faster! |
38 | * RidingIntoTheSunset: The ending has the Blood Bros ride off into one after killing Big Bad John and donating the gold to Dodge City. |
39 | * SegmentedSerpent: The fourth boss, a giant fire-breathing snake. You had to shoot it in the head to deplete its life bar. |
40 | * ShotgunsAreJustBetter: One of the weapons is a shotgun, which increases your shot size and damage, allowing you to kill enemies more easily. |
41 | * SpiritualSequel: To ''VideoGame/{{Cabal}}''. |
42 | * ThrowABarrelAtIt: One of Big Bad John's moves. |
43 | * UnnecessaryCombatRoll: The combat roll makes you immune to damage and ''will'' save your ass. |
44 | * WeirdWest: The game appears to take place in a standard WildWest setting, but the third and fourth bosses inexplicably happen to be a fire-breathing bird and a fire-breathing giant serpent respectively. |
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