

You can catch falling humans to power-up your shot, and you’ll need those upgrades to have any chance of surviving this absurd game.

The balls of fire you spit out of your mouth will blast through buildings and other structures, blow up enemy vehicles, and light up zombies. This set includes both versions, so you can choose the form of the destructor.Īnd destroy you will. The Japanese version, Abarenbo Tengu, follows the same basic structure but swaps the samurai head for a tengu mask. You even battle the Statue of Liberty as a boss at one point. In the Western version, Zombie Nation, you play as a giant disembodied samurai head who must lay waste to a ruined version of America that has been taken over by zombies.
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It has a bizarre premise that tends to grab attention, and I suspect it is that, plus the small print run of the original games, that has brought us here. It’s a competent side-scrolling shoot-em-up, but hardly a great one. The original NES cartridge can go for hundreds of dollars loose, and even the Japanese Famicom cartridge costs well over a hundred bucks. Zombie Nation always seemed like one of those games that could show up on the Wii Virtual Console or Nintendo Switch Online during a particularly quiet week, but it never did. We’ve gone past the all-time classics, the big sellers, and the historically significant, and have now arrived deep in Weird Game Town. You can tell we’re living in good times for retro game rereleases. Let’s head out on our little journey! Reviews & Mini-Views Abarenbo Tengu & Zombie Nation ($11.99) We then check out the odd assortment of new releases for today, then wrap things up with the usual lists of incoming and outgoing sales. In today’s article, we’ve got a couple of reviews of games I picked up a few weeks back and want to shine a little extra light on. Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for November 16th, 2021.
