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jp's Zombie Daisuki (DS)

[June 1, 2023 11:13:44 PM]

This game is...adorable in a weird way?

So, it's zombies...but the zombies are like pikmin in the sense that they wander around but you use the stylus/touch screen to send them to different parts of the top-down 2D map...where you need to pick up presents and also kill civilians. The civilians are really hard to kill - doing lots of damage and even killing your zombies! There are also often environmental hazards - e.g. moving cars - that knock zombies around and do damage. I played 7 levels or so...and I always started with 20 zombies.

BUT, in between levels - all your zombies live on a farm - and from the presents in the levels they collect stuff you plant that then grows (every other mission) into things that the zombies eat to get stats boosts...so, each of your zombies can improve in their stats and thus, presumably be better in the missions. I don't know if there's a way to select which zombies to go on the mission (it's all in Japanese...so I have no idea what the instructions are, or what the cut-scenes, with lots of text, are saying).

But, it's really cute! When you attack a human, especially when they're mobbed, they start yelling out for help - and the game is just...adorable...there's no gore obviously.

Thankfully for me, the tutorial was pretty clear - it starts explaining the basic actions:

- Swipe across a group to get them to go in that direction
- Tap the screen (twice?) to get them to run away from where you tapped
- Hold stylus to screen to get them to converge on where you're holding
- Draw a circle around a group and then swipe from inside the circle to get the group inside the circle to go in the direction swiped.

The game does have a fair amount of progression - but I'm not sure how much further longevity there is - you improve your zombies, but do you get new types? new actions? etc. I must have played about 45 minutes or so...