The sole survivors are a quintet of students, who as luck would have it, are proficient with automatic rifles, handguns, and rocket launchers, as well as martial arts. As the moniker suggests, the game centers around the events at the Kirisaku Academy, a private institution that’s been besieged by the undead. The PlayStation 4 title emulates the madcap juxtaposition of the exploitation film, impishly blending the melodramatic with the fantastical. Player who find enjoyment in these kinds of low-brow romps will undoubtedly appreciate the release of School Girl/Zombie Hunter.
From the Dead or Alive, Onechanbara, and perhaps even Senran Kagura series, there’s a cottage industry of developers who have an infatuation with pugnacious, scarcely clothed young maidens. And while the genre’s popularity eroded by the late ‘70s, an emerging home video market and premium cable channels embraced the B-movie, where viewers would consume these lurid, puckish products from the comforts of their own couch.Īnd while the majority of Western video game developers create content which apes the spectacle of sanitized box office blockbusters, Japan often draws inspiration from the exploitation flick.
With the reduction of cinematic censorship and the erosion of societal taboos, the exploitation film rose to popularity in the late 1960s, trailing the rise of drive-ins and grindhouse theatres.
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