Beyond being a 2D, sprite-based, isometric clickfest, Blade & Sword also chooses to incorporate the Horadric cube (here referred to as a "Spyragic cube"), town portal stones you can activate along the way, town scrolls, (called "homing portals"), a village with a healer who will refill your mana and health for free (a red meter and blue meter), socketed weapons, 800x600 max resolution, and a rather similar skill point system. In fact, B&S is so much like its predecessor that it plays like a mod rather than something built from the ground up, to a certain extent. However, where it manages to deviate, it does so with decidedly mixed results.