As I was mowing down zombies in a Japanese-structured neighborhood, complete with a ma-and-pa shop, a tiny delivery truck, and Daruma dolls scattered around, I noticed a completion percentage ratio at the bottom of the screen that builds as you destroy stuff. Sadly, not even halfway through the Story mode's first stage, my jimmies were being rustled by a few problems. I was kinda disappointed that Zombie Panic wasn't a run 'n gun or scrolling action title, but if Akaoni was able to fool me once, maybe the team could do it again by making something unique with this oldschool play style. Oh, yeah, and by 'shooting', I don't mean attacking with his sword that you visibly see in every cutscene, but a machine gun he apparently whips out from thin air. Here, he's limited to left and right movement while tasked with shooting everything that appears on screen with the use of the Wii Remote and Nunchuk combo. Using a template that some would call the Cabal shooter genre, named after the 1988 arcade game, Zombie Panic takes place in a third-person view, where your main protagonist, Momotaro (later joined by Dorothy and Snow White), is regulated to the foreground. I personally got more intrigued when I found out that the predominantly Japanese aesthetics of the game were, plot twist, not created by a Japanese development team!Īkaoni Studio, a Spanish team, does such a convincing job making you believe the game is a product of Japan, with its super-deformed 3D models, simple, cutsey cutscenes, and a borderline harem-esque cast fighting against a stereotypical, flamboyant antagonist, that you're willing to give its preferred method of gameplay a chance. That's why something like Zombie Panic in Wonderland sticks out real easy at first glance: an alluring name, a cutesy Japanese art-style, and a premise where zombies invade a land populated by fairy tale characters. It's really depressing how many Shovelware titles, from dart to pottery games, you need to scroll past until you find anything remotely decent. If you've never had the opportunity of browsing the WiiWare's catalog, then consider yourself very, very grateful.

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