Zombie Hunter

a.k.a. ゾンビハンター / Zombie Master

published by Hi-Score Media Work in 1987-07-03, developed by Lenar, running on Nintendo Entertainment System

type: action/reflex, role-play
genre: Fantasy
perspective: side view
player options: single player

languages: jpn

3/5

Personal review

"Zombie Hunter" is a side-scrolling Action-RPG and plays similar as the side-scrolling action parts of Zelda II The Adventure of Link. Killing monsters will give you experience points and a chance of a chest with special items or upgrades to already existing armor and weapons. The game is very linear and has no overworld or other NPCs to talk to (except some shops in each level where you can buy/sell items). However, you can walk forth and back in each level in order to grind some levels before you encounter more difficult enemies. I think the problem is that the game doesn't play very well and becomes much too repetitive in the later levels. Besides that it is a quite difficult game. Activision planned to release the game in the U.S. as "Zombie Master", but eventually cancelled it.