Blood Bros Arcade Game
Japanese Flyer While Cabal received a modest cabal of fans (apologies for the pun), it also had a sequel with which not too many are as familiar. It was known as Blood Bros., and while not a direct sequel to Cabal in the strictest sense of the word, it may as well be Cabal 2 in all but atmosphere.
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Perhaps serving as an even more direct influence for Wild Guns than Cabal, Blood Bros.‘ biggest difference over its predecessor is its ol’ Western theme. It essentially does for Cabal what Lethal Enforcers II did to its predecessor, being an extremely similar follow-up and setting it in the latter half of nineteenth-century America. Why set it a century in the past while keeping the exact same gameplay? Ghost Rider Gameshark.
Who the heck knows why, but it’s filled with just as much destruction as its modern-day kin. Once again, Blood Bros. foregoes story for action, though based on what you learn in the end credits, it’s apparent than an outlaw by the name of Big Bad John is searching for a gigantic treasure. The Blood Bros. hope to stop this nefarious goliath by blasting their way through anyone who stands in their path. Player one is a cowboy and player two is a Native American, giving more cosmetic difference between the two characters than just an altered uniform. Their journey takes them through waterfalls and train tracks, a big lake leading to a besieged town, a barfight, a big dry gulch, an oil field, an ominous cavern, and the treasure fortress where Big Bad John awaits them. There’s a lot more level variety than in Cabal with no two stages looking quite like each other, and they’re a great deal more colorful to boot. The graphics are much brighter and enticing, demonstrating the improvement two years can bring to what is essentially the same hardware.
The sounds are also beefed up, with the main tune being a catchy Western-style ditty that’s certainly more prominent than Cabal‘s low-key tune, though it can get a bit repetitive considering the only other in-game tracks are the boss tunes. Despite the fact that player one has dual pistols and player two uses a rifle, their default fire is exactly the same. As in Cabal, you control both your character and your target cursor when your finger isn’t held on the fire button, otherwise only the cursor moves.
Grenades return in the form of dynamite sticks, and as before, you are granted ten per life with more to be earned from mass property and enemy damage. You get shotguns that increase your damage and giant machine guns which up your fire rate, and you can also roll around to evade fire.
Just like Cabal, the heroes engage in a happy dance across the battlefield after each win. On top of this, the goofy factor has been raised significantly higher, with your most likely source of munitions of all things being pigs. If you shoot these cartoonish hogs that run across the screen, they’ll sprint quickly and drop weapons, with more to give if you can keep hitting them.