Night Slashers

released on Nov 01, 1993

The dead have risen from their graves, and monsters and mutants prey upon what's left of the living. Three monster hunters have joined together, using their knowledge of the occult to slay the undead scourge.


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Gostinho de jogar, ótima variedade de inimigos e combos fácies de realizar. E uma dificuldade nada desafiadora, mas mesmo assim ótimo pra matar o tempo.

Campy fun beat-em-up with hilarious pixelated gore and wet gloopy synth blood sound effects. Really fun to quarter-mash through.

Incredibly stylish beat-'em-up that fills an important "80s gore-fest" niche for the genre. Not super-deep mechanically, but gets a lot of mileage out of its presentation and wave-based enemy structure. Fun to mow down bloody zombies.

Night Slashers is Data East's horror themed BTM game (beat em up) about three 90s OVA characters—an edgy blonde white guy with robot arms, a martial artist vampire hunter, and a highly agile female martial artist—killing zombies, Frankenstein, Frankenstein's monster, werewolves, vampires, Dracula himself, Final Fight enemies with axes, fat guys, mummies, commando knife fighters with and without Jason masks. Like most BTMs, how much you enjoy the game is going to mostly rely on how much you vibe with the theme. There's a lot of variety in enemies and level art, but the level designs still feel somewhat samey. The combat is simple BTM stuff, but there's a little bit of complexity in special moves and grabs. The bosses are pretty easy, but their standard trick is that they spawn adds. The best part of this game is the animation, which can be really satisfying, particularly the death animations. Zombies (and weirdly other enemies) melting into nasty piles of goo after death never got old.

This was a BLAST. Campy monster hunting, silly mini-games like Zombie Javelin Throw, and combat that, while simple, is never frustrating or overwhelming.

It's got a little Jojo's, a little Castlevania, it's a perfect aesthetic that refuses to take itself seriously and deserves praise for that. Compared to more fleshed-out beat-em-ups like Battle Circuit or Tower of Doom, this title won't stand out, but it's a perfectly memorable romp to spend an hour or two on!

This game rocks! The girl is just recycled animations of Guy from Final Fight and I don't care.