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Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers Review (Wii)

Posted by Jim Cook, 276 days ago
  Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers
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This game is the sequel to the Xbox 360’s “Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad”, and is basically the same game. You control a few beautiful, scantily clad women and guide them through their battle against hordes of undead in a 3D brawler similar to Devil May Cry, Dynasty Warriors, or Samurai Western. These sort of games normally draw a love-or-hate reaction from people, making it hard to give a universal recommendation on whether to buy them or not; one gamer will brush the genre off as shallow trash, another will love it for precisely that reason.

But in the case of Bikini Zombie Slayers on the Wii, it’s easy to call: stay away. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with the game’s premise, as fighting your way through packs of undead and the boss figures controlling them sounds fun. Likewise, the fanservice angle of unlocking several pretty outfits for the girls to wear could be fun to some people. Unfortunately, some bugs, annoying design choices, and the controls will kill your interest.

The major problem is that this game requires you to use the Nunchuk and Wiimote. Nevermind that the Classic Controller has enough buttons to mostly duplicate the Xbox 360 prequel’s controls; you’re forced to flail your arms around in several complex motions to deal with hundreds of enemies per stage. And if you clear a room, only to go into another one with a save point... the room you just cleared refills with more zombies the second you return. While there is a certain flow to the controls and they can be mastered, they’re still bad. This was a ’button masher’ on the 360, why do I have to wave my arms around non-stop this time around? It gets tiring after a while and that’s on top of some of the controls being unintuitive to boot

 Our Rating for Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers Review (Wii)
6.0
Replay
Like most modern brawlers, this one has a lot of hidden things to unlock.
4.5
Graphics
Xbox 360 launch title era graphics get downscaled for the Wii, and it doesn’t look very good.
6.0
Sound
Decent Japanese voice acting and good sound effects, and slightly better music than the Xbox 360 prequel.
3.5
Gameplay
There’s a really deep combat system here, but it’s hard to use with the poorly arranged controls and constant arm-wagging.
3.0
Multiplayer
No online play, and co-op at 480p resolution isn’t going to be easy to cope with.
2.0
Overall
Forget the low cost. The controls are completely unsuited to this type of game, and it will hurt.
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  #1 Mar 3, 2009 16:20:48 267 days ago

Voiceofreason
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Worst review ever and couldnt have been more wrong. Proof can be seen at Metacritic.com. Wii version is rated a 57 while the completelt garbage 360 version is 39. It’s easy to see this is a hate reveiw and not a real review with any kind of cred.  Controls are completely wrecked? Never saw that in any other review from real journalists. Co-op is hard to cope with because of 480p? Really this must be your first gen of gaming then because until this gen we werent even gaming at 480p, but now we are supose to think it hurts? Pathetic.

Anyway dont listen to this guy and hey dont take my word for it. Go get some real reveiws from real gaming sites with real educated journalists that get paid to review games based on the console they are and not based off of their personal bias.

 

Thanks to this review I am buying the game on Wii. Just to know for sure that this review is a complete joke.


  #2 Mar 3, 2009 17:16:24 267 days ago

Jim Cook
13 Comments

Can you elaborate on the ’hate review’ part? Do you think this is a Wii-bashing review? That seems to be the obvious conclusion, and it would be untrue. Check my article history, you’ll see I’ve reviewed Sam & Max: Season One for the Wii and thought it was great, giving it an 8.0. I also run quite a bit of homebrew on my Wii (and have been asked to consider some articles looking at this), plus have a decent library including games like Guilty Gear XX Accent Core, Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, Resident Evil 4, Super Mario Galaxy, and so on. Nor is this my first gaming generation; I actually got my start in MS-DOS, the Atari 2600, and the NES. I remember editing autoexec.bat and config.sys files to get enough conventional memory freed up for Wing Commander 2 on DOS, discovering that the first boss in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES) could be beaten by Donatello’s crouch attack at no risk to yourself, and even played Warlords on an Atari 2600 paddle.

 

But I find it silly you say Metacritic is the reason I’m wrong. If all gaming reviewers are supposed to be in agreement, then you may as well see if we can get the Borg hivemind to do reviews and trim a lot of middlemen out of the industry. It’s worth pointing out that not all sites use the 0-10 scale the same way. I saw a Gamespot review for some Tiger Woods game a while back, complaining of reproducible showstopping bugs. It got a 6.5 accompanied by negative review text. That would have been more like a 4.0 or below (probably lower) in my book. So Metacritic’s averages mean very little to me.

 

I do play the games I review, and I play them thoroughly. I don’t have a hate-on for the Wii as a piece of technology, I just felt the Wii’s technologies weren’t suited to this game and I really did like the 360 version more. If that’s an inversion of popular opinion, so be it. I offer a different opinion, not an insincere one.

 

That said, I’m pleased my article influenced your purchasing decision. Sure, you’re acting contrary to my advice, but I still had some significant effect on you. I’m pretty sure that means I’m doing that part of the job right; I am engaging the reader and making them think and react. That’s good.


  #3 Mar 3, 2009 18:03:30 267 days ago

SuperGuido
36 Comments

At Metacritic, that 57 is partly because:

Gamespot 30 - Onechanbara makes zombie-slaying women boring.

Games Radar 30 - the motion controls utterly wreck what should just be mindless zombie-goring fun. (look they say the controls are bad!)

Gametrailers 46 - and gameplay that will literally leave you sore (also about the controls)

I think that I have sufficiently proven that you did not bother to read and are simply a rabid fan or perhaps a developer...whoever you are, you most certainly are not the voice of reason.


 
 
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