[quote][i]This is the [b]40th[/b] review of the Steam Redlight series, a series where I purposely seek out negatively or controversially rated games on Steam to see if they're as bad as the Internet says they are. It's accompanied by a video review that can be found [b][url=https://youtu.be/NJLGJgcM11c]here[/url][/b].[/i][/quote]
[b]In summary, I cannot recommend Cyber Girl - Zombie Hentai[/b], and as a numerical score I’d rate it a 2/10. The game’s music is the best thing about it, the [i]”consequence scenes”[/i] are uninteresting, but the gameplay is really short, the game offers no challenge or replayability, and finally the game is held back by a critically game-breaking bug.
[h2]Introduction[/h2]
In Cyber Girl - Zombie Hentai, you play as a seemingly nameless protagonist in the midst of a zombie apocalypse in a familiar cyberpunk aesthetic. We’ll call her [b]Bunny[/b], though, because that’s her name in the info/tutorial screen, it’s just never mentioned again. Featuring a slightly diverse weapon-set and her infinite endurance, she’ll clean up the streets of as many zombies as necessary to get her fill of that shmeat. Also, the zombies drop money, it seems. Or maybe you’re getting paid a bounty per kill. Who knows. It took me about 45 minutes to beat the game and only three minutes beyond that was I able to get all of the games’ achievements.
The game plays as a third-person shooter with some mostly typical 3rd person shooter controls; some notables would be that you can’t jump, but you instead can roll. You’ll fight off against a few waves of zombies that spawn within three different environments across nine stages total. In between each stage you’ll have the option to power up either health or damage. If you clear stage nine, you’ll have completed the game. When it comes to the zombies themselves there’s three different types in the game — the slow and shambling zombie, a slightly-faster zombie, and then a butcher-zombie that acts as a “boss” that deals more damage with a larger health pool.2
Weapon purchasing and upgrading exists but can only be done when outside of your completion attempts, so if you fail you’ll have an opportunity to spend the cash you earned from knocking off the heads of zeds. The weapon-set you can have access to includes the hand-gun you start off with, in addition to a submachine gun, assault rifle, shotgun, revolver, and finally a katana. You can also have no weapon in your hand, for whatever reason that is as there’s no melee functionality. All the weapons are upgradeable up to eight times except the katana, which cannot be upgraded at all. Upgrades grant additional damage and and a larger clip — ammo itself is infinite, you can reload as many times as you’d like.
When it comes to the more adult aspects of the game, the protagonist will remove articles of clothing as you progress through the stages, leaving her entirely nude by the last stage. In a somewhat masochistic act, she dodges, ducks, dips, dives, and dodges all across these nasty post-apocalyptic streets while letting it [b]all[/b] air out. Zombie kills unlock the gallery - once you rack up 250 kills you’ll have all 8 scenes you rightfully earned, and if you finish stage nine, you’re given a “little surprise” in the main menu. If you die or complete the game, you’re given a [i]”consequences”[/i] button you can press, which just activates the latest adult scene you’ve unlocked. It’s funny that [i]“consequences”[/i] is the verbiage if you clear all nine stages, like — why am I facing a consequence for completing the game?
Anyway, that’s about all the foundation ya need, so let’s talk about what I liked.
[h2]The Good[/h2]
The most commendable of all the items is that the game gets a point for having some good, well-looped music. It subsequently loses a point because the Store Page advertises synthwave music and this doesn’t sound like that, so it evens out to moot.
That’s the only notable, so let’s move onto what I liked a little bit less.
[h2]The Ungood[/h2]
To start off with things I didn’t like that ultimately didn’t affect scoring because they’re so minor; in the Settings menu you have the option to adjust the music, sound, and voice volume, but there’s no feedback to tell you if the sound or voice volumes are at a desirable level. Music plays in the background on this screen, but there’s no sound or voice that plays while adjusting the slider to help you figure out if you want Bunny to be moaning at [s]nut[/s] ear-busting levels. Also, the currency is an ethernet plug sign here, but in the purchasing menu the currency are dollar signs. I couldn’t actually figure out where my money was at first because of the icon inconsistency. Anyway, onto things that actually matter.
The lesser of all the evils is that the game doesn’t offer any challenge. The only difficulty you face is on your first run when you can only afford the pistol’s first couple of upgrades. Between the unlimited sprinting, dodging, and the instantaneous reload, you can put some distance between the zombies and yourself, enough to deliver a couple of headshots. This becomes futile later because there’s just [i]too many[/i], but unlocking the shotgun or the assault rifle puts you on autopilot for the nine levels. The game would really benefit from limiting stamina and slowing down the reload on some of the heavier weapons.
For the next dig, the graphics don’t hold up well mechanically. Like, sure, they look nice - but functionally they’re vapid. The level aesthetics are the [b]only[/b] thing cyberpunky about the game aside from the eligible sound tracks. Bunny, the zombies, and even the weapons don’t really fit the intended theme. The blood graphics are laughable, some of the environment obstacles can be walked through, and the CG zom-boning scenes are sterile. It was in those scenes I learned that zombies have pants and that they have normal-colored genitalia, despite their green skin. Out of all of those, the only one that requires further expansion are the sex scenes - like, that’s really [b]all[/b] this game should be redeemable for because let’s face it, the gameplay is just a means to that end, but they are just so uninteresting. DeviantArt’s got better stuff. Just to dig that ditch a foot deeper, the audio track has no synchronization with the scene, which makes sense because the audio track is like thirty seconds long for a five second loop.
When it comes to the gameplay, the game is held back by the lack of quality control leaving the bugs to run rampant. For example, there’s at least one safe space in each level where you can stand and shoot at the zombies. There’s also a way to leave the boundaries in each level and just wander beyond the walls. Walk far enough, you’ll fall through the floor [i]forever[/i]. If you’re lucky enough, you might get permanently stuck on a level fixture. Then lastly, I refuse the believe that the katana, which can’t be leveled up because it’s “God Level”, was tested in any capacity.
Lastly, the worst of all the offenders is another, but game-breaking bug. When I purchased all the weapons and upgrades, I wasn’t able to pull out any weapon. You normally start the game empty-handed and have to strike a key on your number line to pull out a weapon, but those buttons no longer worst post-maxing everything out. You also can’t die, you just sink into oblivion. Just like my feelings about this game. Reinstalling fixes it, but the fact that it’s a problem at all is a critical oversight.
[h2]The End[/h2]
Well, that’s about everything. The game is a vehicle to deliver sex, but the sex ain’t sexy.
[quote][i]If you’re into curator groups, [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38757311/]we have one of those[/url]*.* Did you like this written review? Watch the video review which does have some different coverage not talked about here:[/i][/quote]
https://youtu.be/NJLGJgcM11c
