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Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad (360)

That Rev Chap — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:58:00 +0000

Finished the first seven chapters now. Thoroughly enjoyable stuff, especially now I’ve been told how to move the camera back a bit, letting me see a lot more of the levels around me.

Getting round corners can sometimes be an issue and I can’t get the cool combo timing down at all, but apart from that, not having any problems.

Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad (360)

That Rev Chap — Sat, 02 May 2009 16:13:00 +0000

You heard.

Been playing this in co-op with my wife (except for one level I had to do solo for story reasons). It’s not the best looking game, the view in co-op is very restrictive and it’s all a bit cheap, but it’s the same good, dirty, repetitive fun I remember from Zombie Zone on the PS2.

Zombie Zone (PS3)

That Rev Chap — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:35:00 +0000

Plucked this off the shelf to test the PS3′s backwards compatibility. It’s not even listed on Sony’s site, but from the brief go I had it seemed absolutely fine. Camera was much worse than I remember and there’s really nothing much to it, but, as I’ve mentioned before, you’re a girl with a big sword fighting zombies while wearing only a cowboy hat and bikini. Sometimes that’s enough.

Zombie Zone

That Rev Chap — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 21:40:00 +0000

Level two finished. Fifty minute completion time, fifteen thousand trillion billion zombies killed. Final boss was hard – and it was odd to have to use real skill (and some power-ups, I have to admit) to kill her after the button-cashing zombie horde slaying of the rest of the level. Never mind, when you die you can restart boss fights more or less instantly. In fact, when you die you can just restart wherever you are. You’re put back to the beginning of the room or area you’re in, but there’s no more punsihment than that. I have to approve.

You can tell it’s a budget game in the environments. I’ve just been through a hospital, which was made up of a set of identical rooms and corridors. Doesn’t really matter, though. I never got lost and everywhere had zombies to kill. And the camera really is rubbish.

Oh, yes, and you get expetience points at the end of each level. I’m spreading mine a bit thin. I think I should actually choose what I want to power-up otherwise they could be wasted.

I think that’s enough zombie action for tonight.

Have you bought it yet?

Zombie Zone

That Rev Chap — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 20:12:00 +0000

So, I’ve bought a few cheap PS2 games recently. Thought I’d copy them to the hard drive. So Dragon Quest VIII got ejected and in went the HDLoader disc. Ripped Michigan, Sega Classics and Splatter Master without incident. (Though I’ve not tested to see if they actually work yet.) Zombie Zone, though, wouldn’t copy. Got a fatal error every time I tried. So I booted it up off the disc to see if it would work. It did. I’m glad.

It’s a budget Japanese game brought out over here at a budget price.

You’re a young woman who’s been brought up by your Dad since your Mum passed away. He taught you fencing skills, which is useful as you’ve just found him dying. He’s also just told you that he’s been attacked by a sister you never knew you had and her zombie army. So you take your sword and run into battle. Unfortunately, it seems you forgot to put any clothes on… Okay, you’re not quite naked. You’ve got a cowboy hat on. And a bikini, which lets your breasts jiggle in a way that would embarrass any of the girls from Dead Or Alive.

You run around killing zombies. Lots of zombies. Fuck tons of zombies. I’ve just done the first level, which took forty-three minutes and I must’ve killed about, oh, sixteen billion? Seventeen billion? Something around there. There are normal attack, powerful attack, kick, jump, lock on and shake sword free of blood buttons.

Okay, so it’s not doing much beyond having you run around finding keys and killing zombies. And the camera isn’t great. But! There’s blood! Zombie legs stumble around! More blood! A girl with a sword in a bikini and cowboy hat! Killing zombies! And leaking blood when she’s injured! A huge fat zombie boss who you get to chop into little bits!

It’s a low budget zombie gore movie in game form. What’s not to love?

Go on, click this link and order a copy. It’s in stock. It’s £8.99. It’s got a nearly naked girl with a big sword slaughtering zombies. It doesn’t appeal to your higher instincts, the ones that make you try to read the book reviews in The Guardian when all you really want to do is read Charlie Brooker and then watch telly. Who cares? Treat yourself.

And, yes, it’s got a 60Hz mode.