It’s basically “baby first zombie apocalypse plot skeleton” crossed with a very typical chanbara plot,, not that anything explains why the main character, Aya, fights zombies in a bikini, along with her scarf and cowboy hat, or why the main villain, your sister Saki, is still rocking the frigging japanese high school uniform. You’d think something had bee n learned from the Elric brothers, but i guess not. Sarcasm aside, the main driving point of the plot is that Saki (who killed their father for abandoning them in order to train Aya in the art of the sword) needs Aya’s heart for a ritual in order to resurrect their mother. The plot is basically the sa me old cliched tale of fratricidal vengeance so common in japanese media (“you killed father, imma gonna kill you and then we’ll see, stupid sister of mine!”), but with the undead flesh-eating lumbering sad sacks, though the game raises his finger and says they’re not technically undead because they’re corpse possessed by evil spirits that raised them from their eternal sleep…. ![]() Ironically enough for budget releases like this, they comand a not insignificant price nowadays, Zombie Zone a little less, but Zombie Hunters 2 can demand 50 bucks (or more), that’s second hand videogame market for you. Thinking back, it’s almost unbelievable how this franchise had managed to spawn, given The Oneechanbara was one of the many titles developed by Tamsoft and distributed by D3 Publisher under the Simple Series umbrella, in this specific case the Simple Series 2000 line (2000 as in “2000 yen”, the price), that also included another success niche series, Earth Defense Force, and many other PS2 titles that actually made their way out of Japan, mostly in Europe as low budget releases under different names and by the way of crap peddler publishers like Agetec, 505 Game Street (which nowadays publishes stuff like Indivisible, oddly enough), Midas Interactive, Empire Interactive, or by D3 Publisher itself under the “Essential Games” label.īut then again, stuff like Pink Pong or Bowling Xciting lacked the selling points of fetish magnet dressed “babes” fighting zombies with swords and covering themselves with blood, so yeah, it’s easy to see why this sold better than other budget titles from this “series/line”. I will cover that in a separate article, when i can i find a working copy and i have some extra, extra cash. Let’s start with – what else – Oneechanbara, the first one, released in Europe as Zombie Zone, and for it’s upgraded version, The Oneechanpuru – The Onechan Special Chapter, released as Zombie Hunters in Europe (yet again). In Japan, at least, but for the occasion i will review the original PS2 games, using their rare european releases, because of course i own them (why wouldn’t i?). ![]() This 5th of december D3 Publisher has released Oneechanbara Origins, a remake of the first two Oneechanbara games, for PS4.
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