NCS Game Notes
* Tamsoft developed the game for D3 publisher. Tamsoft is best known for the Toshinden series of games on the original Playstation.

* Before the title screen shows up, the following text appears to scare off the faint of heart: "Warning. This game contains scenes of explicit violence and gore."

* The mode select screen allows for the following selections:

STORY - Follow the convoluted tale and hacks n' slash to find little sister
SURVIVAL - Battle endless waves zombies that incarnate infinitely
PRACTICE - Test your hacking skills with Aya, the cowboy hat wearing sista QUEST - Twelve special missions - need to be unlocked before they're playable
OPTION - Set difficulty, sound volume, vibration, save/load data

A B-movie song plays in the background where a woman occasionally moans out, "Yeah, C'mon" and wails "uuuhuuwooah"

* At the outset of the game, only the motorcycle helmeted biker chick is a selectable character in STORY MODE but Aya is the only gal available in SURVIVAL and PRACTICE mode.

* The controls are simple - L-analog moves and R-analog swivels the camera. In the case of Aya, the SQUARE button performs a sword slash and it may be pressed four times in sequence to pull off a slashing combo which ends with a leaping sword stroke. The "O" button throws out shuriken and the TRIANGLE button performs a kick. Aya may jump and double-jump with taps of the "X" button. To target an enemy and highlight it in a green haze, hit the R1 trigger.

* When going full blast on a zombie, the first frontal attack lops off the head and the next blow splits its torso from the legs and launches both arms backwards. Of course, jets of blood puddle on the floor and spurt from the hapless zombie's hacked open torso.

* Ravens are present in some levels and they attack by dive bombing and pecking once. The zombies in the game are fairly hideous and lumber along in slow and painful drag. As a fighting force, they're largely ineffectual and are conquered by even the worst joypad pusher. In later areas, there are zombies that appear to have been self immolated. Why are they burning? There's no visible source of fire but there they are, lumbering along afire.

* After a particularly fruitful killing session, Aya's sword pours down streams of blood that splatter on the floor. A blood covered sword will cause it to stick inside a zombie's body because of the gooey gluey attraction between clotted blood. There are times when Aya's sword gets stuck inside a zombie's body and she'll have a hard time withdrawing it as other zombies close in for the kill. To avoid this embarrassing predicament, hit the L1 trigger when the sword (indicated on the left side of the screen) is covered with blood. Aya will swish the sword and knock all the clots and crimson off the sword so it's shiny and slicing cleanly again.

* Since Aya's garb... or lack thereof is so unusual, NCS is compelled to describe it in exacting detail. On her head, Aya wears a leopard-spotted cowboy hat followed by a purple feather boa which is wrapped around her left. The boa trails along her back. Her breasts are cupped together with a red bikini and a gun belt circles her waist. Peer behind the gun belt to observe her matching red bikini bottom. Her arms are covered with theater gloves that don't match each other. Her right leg slips into a white lace piece of hosiery while her left leg is covered by sheer hosiery that is helf up by a red garter. In case you're wondering, her shoes match the bikini. In essence, Aya looks like she just crawled out of the Salvation Army lingerie section.

* The gal with twin ponytails (Lian Chan) groans out a storm when swinging her sword and spraying monster gore all over the floor. She's a little thing so carrying a broadsword must take a lot of effort. The helmeted sister swings a samurai sword in her right arm and cocks a rifle in her left arm. When a zombie is blasted by the rifle, the entire top half of its body explodes into a puddle of blood. Slashing a zombie also causes decapitates it, whacks off limbs, and truncates it into body parts.

* In the Now Loading screen, a sketch of Aya confronts a blue zombie. Unfortunately, there is no animation and the two stand there like sticks of wood.
 

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