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Xuan-Yuan Sword series

Xuan-Yuan Sword: Dance of the Maple Leaves

Being the first game in the series to have connection with real world history, Dance of the Maple Banners inherited most of the previous game's interface, arts, and battle system, with subtle modifications…

6 January 1995

Xuan-Yuan Sword: Dance of the Maple Leaves is a role-playing (rpg) developed by DOMO Studio, released 6 January 1995 on DOS, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Xuan-Yuan Sword: Dance of the Maple Leaves is

Xuan-Yuan Sword: Dance of the Maple Leaves is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by DOMO Studio and released in 1995. It was published by Softstar Entertainment Inc.. It is available on DOS, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

The first standalone expansion episode in the series, the story of Dance of the Maple Banners (楓之舞) was based on the Warring States period in Chinese History. The Sword fell into the hands of the political radical, Shusangzi (蜀桑子 or Sang Jing 桑凈). The main character Fu Ziche (輔子徹) is an eccentric young disciple of Mozi, and is also an expert in mechanical engineering, especially in the creation and manipulation of Jiguan Ren (機關人), man-sized mechanical golems powered by mystic energy. Jiguan Ren were originally developed for war, but their designs were hidden away for fear of being misused. Shusangzi had re-discovered this technology, and developed a large Jiguan army for his own ends. Upon…
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How it plays

Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Xuan-Yuan Sword series

Xuan-Yuan Sword: Dance of the Maple Leaves is the third of 12 entries we hold in the Xuan-Yuan Sword series. It arrived 11 months after Xuan-Yuan Sword 2. The next entry was Xuan-Yuan Sword: Mists Beyond the Mountains in 1999.

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What it launched against

Xuan-Yuan Sword: Dance of the Maple Leaves launched on 6 January 1995, within three weeks of Umihara Kawase, King's Field, WWF Raw and Battle Arena Toshinden.

Released around the same time: Umihara Kawase, King's Field, WWF Raw, Battle Arena Toshinden.

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When did Xuan-Yuan Sword: Dance of the Maple Leaves come out?
Xuan-Yuan Sword: Dance of the Maple Leaves was released on 6 January 1995 for DOS, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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