Thursday, March 01, 2007

The Jokouppichi Torimonochou Oanechan GoGOGO

The previous heroine of the Oanechan games has been getting a little long in the tooth. Maybe Aya's on vacation from the self-created killing fields after her impressive work in Vortex. Z. Or maybe D3 Publisher needed to expand their successful Oanechan franchise with a younger and more attractive killer. The new heroine shares one remarkable trait with Aya - the same bad taste in clothing and a lack of any fashion sense.
Set in an alternate reality version of Old Edo, Detective Oharu is a 19 year-old redheaded gal who walks with an extremely odd gait and chops up Edo-era miscreants with a stylized sai (釵). Her alternate weapon is an energy lasso, sort of like Wonder Woman's which is used to tie up enemies and smash them around. As the story goes, a criminal enterprise has infiltrated society with their nefarious operations and it's up to a bright-eyed and impressively endowed young woman to bust up the gang. The game is broken up into levels which are selected from a menu screen with each subsequent stage unlocked after a mission is completed. Furthermore, the levels feature completion percentages. Find all the special items and kill everyone to reach 100% but do a half-ass job and you might scrape by with 50%. Each level concludes by defeating a somewhat mighty boss. «more»

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