![]() ![]() I guess their undead though since if you look when they move their arms you can see ribs showing.ĭispatching any of these creatures results in lots of gore and bloody piles of body parts. They move around swiftly and do these sliding kick moves. Theres also these guys that I guess are psycho’s with knives and hockey masks. we have regular guy zombies, fat man zombies, armless zombies and my favorite the decomposing skeletal zombies that heavily remind me of “Tar Man” from Return of the Living Dead.īlood is everywhere, intestines hanging out, bones poking through its just very nicely done overall. The highlight though is the horde of zombies. ![]() Everything is nicely animated with werewolves starting out as normal looking young guys standing around in jackets before transforming into leaping werewolves and vampires looking appropriately vampireish. Zombies, werewolves, vampires giant executioners, mad scientists, golems, elementals. The game itself has a good variety of creatures pulled from the stock of usual suspects. In the oversees version its just a “GO” arrow but in the Japanese version the arrow flips over and reveals “TO HELL”, pretty clever. A lot of Japanese companies were concerned with offending anyone in America back then so this kind of censorship was very common.Īnother change involves when the game prompts you to continue moving to the right to progress through the stage. In the Japanese version when he ends his attack he flashes a cross but in the oversees version the cross is changed to a blue gem. other changes include missing between level cut screens and the censoring of the character Christopher’s move. It doesn’t really effect much as far as game play goes but the over the top horror atmosphere takes a hit from it. The oversees version had the gore turned down and most of the blood was colored from red to green. Mostly they are identical games besides some superficial censoring. The version I’ll be reviewing here is the Japanese version since I feel it is the superior of the two as far as atmosphere goes. ![]() Hong-Hua is the fast and agile female character that every beat-em-up of the era required. Jake is a reject from a failed 80’s hair band that happened to have giant cyborg arms. The “Night Slashers”, yea, sounds more like a trio of serial killers then monster slaying hero’s.Ĭhristopher is a Billy Ray Cyrus look alike vampire hunter, hes the most balanced character. Zombies, mutants and monsters of all sorts have overrun the earths armies and mankind is being slowly eradicated with only a few remaining outposts.įirst lets take A look at our three intrepid hero’s which are all selectable playable characters. The world has been overrun by the undead. The plot of the game is pretty sparse as to be expected from a arcade game and especially a beat-em-up. There are two versions of this game, one released in Japan and then an oversees version with the various censoring that I’ll get into. The game also has a pretty high gore level for the time as well as a pretty excellent sound track. What sets Night Slashers apart from other games is its excellently executed horror theme featuring various monsters such as zombies, werewolves and vampires. The game is your basic beat-em-up where you scroll from left to right beating the hell out of everything in your path. Night Slashers is a 1993 Arcade release from Date East which has as far as I can tell no ports to any other system. I was immediately captivated by the amazing horror atmosphere and game play. Turtles in Time and (not retro) Dragon's Crown are amazing too.I came across Night Slashers as a young man at a local amusement parks arcade. It's an important part of the experience too because beat em ups that are too simple get boring really fast if the only thing you do is press punch over and over with the occasional powerup and enemy that takes a ton of hits. It has the perfect amount of complexity in character moves and enemy patterns / powerups that you can always come out of a game session feeling like you got better and the next time you could squeeze more moves/better play from your character. I recommend trying to play them coop with a friend online, physically together would be even better.Īs for a specific game, one of my favourites is Alien vs Predator. Playing solo is simply not the same experience. With all the monsters, the fighting for the powerups and health, saving a buddy by dropping with a new live/bomb drop, and all the hectic stuff going around. The amount of fun playing with 3 more people in a cabinet is hard to explain. Something I didn't see others mention that is a huge part of beat em ups is the fact that they are meant to be played by more than one person, with many even going as far as having 4 (and even sometimes even 6) sticks so many people could play at the same time. ![]()
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