

Attacks, other than throws moves, can be blocked by holding the D-Pad away from the opponent. Opponents can be grabbed or thrown by holding or while standing next to them, then pressing a hard punch or kick button. Harder attacks do more damage, but they are slower and leave the character vulnerable to counterattack for longer. Slashes are done with (light), (medium), and (hard) and kicks are done with (light), (medium), and (hard). Most characters are armed with weapons, and there are two types of attacks, slashes and kicks, each with three levels of strength. They jump with and flip back and forth with and. They hop back in retreat with or run forward with. There is also a dedicated two-player mode where both players choose a character and fight.Ĭharacters move with and and crouch with. A second player can enter the game at any point with START to fight a match against the other player, with the winner continuing the game. There is an arcade mode where a single player faces every other character in the game (including a match against a duplicate of the selected character) in a random order, ending in fights against Death Adder and the final boss, a physical manifestation of the Golden Axe.
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There are ten playable characters, all of them new to the game except for long-standing series villain Death Adder. Like the Samurai Shodown games, the camera zooms in or out as the fighters move closer or farther apart. Matches are fought to the best of three rounds. As in those games, two combatants battle each other in a small stage, with the goal of draining the other fighter's health bar or having more health remaining when time runs out. In a departure from the beat-'em-up genre of the other Golden Axe arcade games, The Duel is a 2D versus fighter modeled after the Street Fighter series of games.
