According to the manual, you play at Gogan-Mighty Warrior, and you face an "awesome challenge" (wow, it's like I wrote the manual myself...when I was 12.) Your people are ruled by the Jagu, an "evil cult", and their leader (also named Jagu) is half man, half beast. NO ONE IS SAFE!!!!
In practice, The Legendary Axe seems a lot like the TurboGrafx's take on a Castlevania-type game, complete with pretty decent music. The level design features varying levels of height and some insta-death platforming if you happen to fall into a pit (which can happen quite easily in some areas).
The graphics look pretty good, especially for the time, and your character mostly looks like an incarnation of Tarzan.
One of the interesting gameplay mechanics, is that your character can upgrade their axe with pickups from broken containers (or from select enemies). This allows you to do much greater damage with a single swing, but it takes a second for the axe to fully power-up between swings, so it limits how fast you can strike at full power. This incorporates an interesting balance and trade-off between how fast you swing and how much damage each swing does.
I played The Legendary Axe several times over a few weeks, and I was never able to get farther than level 3B. This is largely due to cheap hits and falls into pits which deliver certain death. The enemies themselves don't seem to be too difficult (at least not in the first three levels), but the environmental dangers bring death quickly and often.
I'm sure I could keep plodding away and try to get farther in the game, but I'm actually eager to get onto my next TurboGrafx game, so I'll come back to The Legendary Axe another time.
Next on my TurboGrafx adventure will be...
Until next time...
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