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The Jokouppichi Torimonochou Oanechan GoGOGO
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NCS Game Synopsis
«©NCS»
The previous heroine of the Oanechan games has been
getting a little long in the tooth. Maybe Aya's
on vacation from the self-created killing fields
after her impressive work in Vortex. Or maybe D3
Publisher needed to expand their successful Oanechan
franchise with a younger and more attractive killer.
The new heroine shares one remarkable trait with Aya
- the same bad taste in clothing and a lack of any
fashion sense.
Set in an alternate reality version of Old Edo, Detective Oharu is
a 19 year-old redheaded gal who walks with an
extremely odd gait and chops up Edo-era miscreants
with a stylized sai (釵). Her alternate weapon is
an energy lasso, sort of like Wonder Woman's which
is used to tie up enemies and smash them around.
As the story goes, a criminal enterprise has
infiltrated society with their nefarious
operations and it's up to a bright-eyed and
impressively endowed young woman to bust up the
gang. The game is broken up into levels which are
selected from a menu screen with each subsequent
stage unlocked after a mission is completed.
Furthermore, the levels feature completion
percentages. Find all the special items and kill
everyone to reach 100% but do a half-ass job and
you might scrape by with 50%. Each level concludes
by defeating a somewhat mighty boss.
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NCS Game Notes
» Tamsoft developed the game for D3P.
» Aya isn't the heroine but her replacement is
just as tacky with a weird outfit. She doesn't
fight zombies but rather goes after strange and
odd criminals dressed in Edo-era clothing.
» Oharu's red hair is spiky and she wears a blue
shawl over her right shoulder while a colorful top
barely covers her bosom. Like Aya, she wears a boa
which is fluffy white and trails her when she runs
around the world. Oharu possesses a strange gait
that must be witnessed for its animatronic
mechanics. She steps gingerly with both arms
swaying gently in a girlish way but then again,
she may be tipsy. When she runs, Oharu really
scrabbles along with youthful energy.
» Press START on the title screen and a bunch of
salarymen bellow out "Oanechan" followed by a
young woman's voice screeching "HAAAAI" The
selections that pop up are:
NEW GAME
LOAD GAME
OPTION
RETURN
» Upon starting a game, Oharu appears in shadowy
silhouette while a story scrolls upwards and is
read by a girl. The first mission takes place in a
quaint town and starts with the heroine standing
and swaying while she pokes her sword into the
air. Yellow-robed thugs appear and it's time to go
to work. Smack a foe twice and the chirping of
birds may be heard as he's dizzied. Smack him once
more and he joins his ancestors. Every enemy
leaves behind a bonus in the form of a scroll, a
big coin, fortune cats, rice balls for health,
etc.
» The game COMMANDS are as follows:
L-Analog............ Movement
R-Analog............ Camera
D-pad................. Push in any direction to
tumble and somersault in the direction pressed
X-Button............. Jump; Press again in mid-air
for a double jump
Square................ Attack
Circle................... Throw out electric lasso
to snag enemies and swing them
Triangle............... Special Attack
L1-Trigger............ Center Camera
R1-Trigger............ Guard
L2-Trigger............. Forward roll (R2-Trigger
also performs this move)
» The lasso can only be used when an enemy is
dizzied. For example, at the outset of the game,
dizzy one of the yellow robes and then lasso him.
Oharu will automatically swing him around to do
damage to anyone that may be within the radius of
the hapless victim.
» Oharu's attacks aren't as versatile as Aya's.
Her attacks are limited to 2 sequential attacks
before the game engine enforces a 1/4 second
time-out period. That 1/4 second delay is a killer
when you're facing three hammer-wielding madmen
and a twirling sword maestro who cuts while in
mid-pirouette. As such, the game engine requires
that the player cut and dash. Attack twice, run
away and then swoop in to attack again. In a way,
this is good because it prevents mindless button
mashing but sometimes we just want to mash it up
for the satisfaction of seeing multiple enemies
getting smacked. An exception to the 1/4 second
time-out rule is when heroine is aloft. Perform a
double jump and then immediately start hitting the
attack button. She'll perform five consecutive
attacks while in mid-air before she reaches the
ground again. To perform an upwards spinning
attack, jump and then hit the attack button once while in
midair.
» A map on the lower-right corner keeps track of
Oharu's location and the location of notable items.
» Detective Oharu must plow her way through 25
levels. At the outset, only one level is available
for play but subsequent levels are unlocked as she
beats bosses and completes stages.
» Oharu must be wearing wooden shoes because they
clatter loudly when trampling across bridges and
in the indoor levels which have a slight monotone
"echo" to them.
» The camera in the game gets really bad at
times where it loses its footing. Hit the L1
trigger to reset it. Hit it a lot.
» Oharu's breasts shudder during and after a
double jump landing. We noticed this after studying
the animation carefully for the 20th time this
morning.
» The boss in the first level is a blue samurai.
He's an easy kill as long as you use your lasso.
Eschew the lasso and he'll continually recover
from dizzies and attack you with expert slashes.
» Famitsu gave the game a
score
of (19/40) but damn them. Oanechan (Oneechan)
isn't about the technical merits, the wonky
camera, or the garish costumes. No, it's about the
spirit and verve of the overall game in its
unbounded glory. Famitsu: Get
with the program already.
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