{"id":18431,"date":"2018-11-26T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T00:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=18431"},"modified":"2018-11-06T16:48:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T16:48:19","slug":"night-slashers-switch-ps4-xbox-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/26\/night-slashers-switch-ps4-xbox-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Slashers (Switch, PS4, Xbox One)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Back in the 90\u2019s, side scrolling beat \u2018em ups were a dime a dozen.\u00a0 Most of them had a modern day street gang theme, but some strayed from the norm with sci-fi or fantasy tropes.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t remember too many horror themed beat \u2018em ups.\u00a0 But here comes Night Slashers, which is just that.\u00a0 It\u2019s from the now defunct Data East, but I don\u2019t remember it in arcades back then.\u00a0 I would say it was Japan only, but there is English text.\u00a0 So I guess the arcades around me just didn\u2019t carry it.\u00a0 Anyway, now you can download it on the Switch (and later other consoles).<\/p>\n

Actually the full title of this game is Johnny Turbo\u2019s Arcade Presents Night Slashers.\u00a0 I just have one question:\u00a0 Who the heck is Johnny Turbo? \u00a0Who\u2019s Johnny?\u00a0 Oh great, now I\u2019ve got a song stuck in my head, and now you will, too.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 Anyway, in Night Slashers you can pick from one of three fighters, and three people can play at the same time.\u00a0 You can be an American cyborg guy, a European monster hunter, or an Asian ninja lady.\u00a0 Play control is pretty simple.\u00a0 You have one button for punches and kicks, one button for jumping, and one button to execute a screen clearing attack, but it\u2019ll take off a big chunk of your energy so use it wisely.<\/p>\n

You travel through spooky locations like a hospital, haunted forest, castle, and more.\u00a0 All the way you\u2019ll be fighting zombies, werewolves, a mad scientist and his Frankenstein like monster, an evil puppet master, vampires, mummies, and more.\u00a0 So it\u2019s like Final Fight meets Splatterhouse.\u00a0 Like many of these arcade to home offerings, you can adjust the controls, screen display, and give yourself endless credits.<\/p>\n

As a beat \u2018em up, this one\u2019s about average.\u00a0 I wish they would\u2019ve done more with weapon pickups.\u00a0 You can sometimes nab briefcases, knives, and swords, but they\u2019re a one-time use only thing.\u00a0 And there\u2019s not much in the way of special moves.\u00a0 A couple of bonus stages every few rounds adds some variety, like Whack-A-Zombie and Undead Bowling.\u00a0 Otherwise I\u2019d say Capcom\u2019s beat \u2018em ups fare better.\u00a0 But if you want a horror themed one, you can\u2019t go wrong with Night Slashers.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Night Slashers is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 Normally I\u2019m pretty lenient when it comes to these ratings, but for this game I\u2019d give it a T for Teen rating. \u00a0Like Splatterhouse, when you defeat enemies in this game, they die in gruesome ways.\u00a0 Blood splatters everywhere, skin melts into bones, stuff like that.\u00a0 Granted, since it\u2019s all in 16-bit pixel graphics, it looks very cheesy and cartoony, but I\u2019d still only let older kids play this.\u00a0 If I wanted to play a beat \u2018em up with a younger kid, I\u2019d pick an alternative like a TMNT game or even a LEGO title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in the 90\u2019s, side scrolling beat \u2018em ups were a dime a dozen.\u00a0 Most of them had a modern day street gang theme, but some strayed from the norm with sci-fi or fantasy tropes.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t remember too many horror themed beat \u2018em ups.\u00a0 But here comes Night Slashers, which is just that.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18433,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18431\/revisions\/18433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}