Reception
Power Blade first received coverage in the Western markets when it was first displayed at the Summer 1990 Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago. There, the game was called Power Mission and featured different character sprites than the finished version; Nintendo Power magazine called the game "mega action in the tradition of Mega Man II. It was the featured article and was on the cover in the April 1991 issue of Nintendo Power. It was also covered in the NES section of the November 1991 issue of the UK gaming magazine Mean Machines, where it received an 88% rating.
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