The outfits don’t really effect anything besides the appearance, and to coincide with the horror themed fan service clothing shows visible signs of falling apart as the characters receive damage. Different types of weapons and outfits get unlocked, and the characters are able to equip multiple guns at once and cycle through them such as assault rifles, submachine guns, rocket launchers, shotguns and sniper rifles. The different girls gain experience levels by killing zombies, and after a stage is beaten it can be replayed with any unlocked character to level grind.
This theme continues throughout the game’s progression. It also seems oddly fetishistic of the zombies to go after the school uniforms and ignore the half naked young women. For a game set in the Onechanbara universe it seemed our female gunslingers were dressed quite modestly, that is until a random button was pressed and her uniform was thrown at the walking dead to use as bait and she continued to run around the scenario in her underwear with a flashlight strapped to her midsection, which seemed like an especially peculiar choice for an under garment.
The default weapon is the school issued handgun, which seems odd since SG/ZH seems like it takes place in Japan and I thought only Chicago issued handguns to its public school students. One is that in the options menu the color of blood can be changed from red to black, green, white or pink. There are a few odd things right off the bat that are noticed. The basic premise is the world is in some state of zombie apocalypse, and the player is at a school where five girls have survived and they are the only hope at thwarting the shambling undead.
The question is does SG/ZH cross into the realm of campy guilty pleasures or is this something that should be cremated, buried and forgotten? Naturally, when one takes a game set in the same universe as Onechanbara that features adolescent girls in school uniforms packing heat and fighting zombies, there is no expectation of goodness, especially with a title as generic as School Girl/Zombie Hunter, though the homage to some up and coming band called AC/DC in their logo is a nice touch.
#SCHOOL GIRL ZOMBIE HUNTER WALKTHROUGH SERIES#
This can happen, as was the case with the cinematic triumph of The Running Man, but more often than not bad things are just so bad they remain bad, like any video game related Uwe Boll film, though we have discussed doing a retrospective of his work in a series of articles called the Summer of Boll$#*!. Sometimes we immediately know something is bad but explore it anyway hoping that it crosses into the realm of so bad it’s good.
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