History VideoGame / SamuraiZombieNation

%%* FlunkyBoss: Stage 3 once again.

* NintendoHard: Aside from some BulletHell, levels contain hazards that upon one simple touch, will knock your HPToOne, allowing something else to finish you off.

%%%%* FlunkyBoss: Stage 3 once again.
%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

->''1999. What appeared to be a harmless meteorite crashing in the Nevada desert has turned out to be [[BigBad Darc Seed]], an evil alien creature with horrible powers. By shooting strange magnetic rays, Darc Seed had turned the helpless nation into zombies and had brought the Statue of Liberty to life to do his dirty work. These rays had also given him control over many deadly weapons, but none were more powerful than the legendary samurai sword, [[MacGuffin Shura]]. When the [[IncrediblyLamePun great head]] of the samurai, Namakubi, heard that the sword had fallen into evil hands, he set off immediately for the United States. For only he possessed the strength and knowledge needed to recapture the magical sword and free the U.S. from the evil clutches of Darc Seed.''

* DarkIsNotEvil: Namakubi is a ghostly severed head and is a DesctructiveSavior, but he's firmly on humanity's side and still rescues America from Darc Seed.

->1999. What appeared to be a harmless meteorite crashing in the Nevada desert has turned out to be [[BigBad Darc Seed]], an evil alien creature with horrible powers. By shooting strange magnetic rays, Darc Seed had turned the helpless nation into zombies and had brought the Statue of Liberty to life to do his dirty work. These rays had also given him control over many deadly weapons, but none were more powerful than the legendary samurai sword, [[MacGuffin Shura]]. When the [[IncrediblyLamePun great head]] of the samurai, Namakubi, heard that the sword had fallen into evil hands, he set off immediately for the United States. For only he possessed the strength and knowledge needed to recapture the magical sword and free the U.S. from the evil clutches of Darc Seed.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Gets away with incredibly violent and disturbing elements, despite Nintendo's strict censorship of the time, in a manner not seen since ''VideoGame/MonsterParty''. You're flinging your own eyeballs and vomit at whatever's in your way, not that the manual ever says anything about that. Said manual also tries to HandWave the fact that you're playing as a severed head by saying it's "[[{{Bowdlerize}} a violent holographic projection of Namakubi's head]]".

%%%%* AlwaysNight

%%%%* CulturalTranslation

%%%%* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: This game rates up there close to ''VideoGame/MonsterParty''.
%%%%** Also, the manual makes no mention of the more disturbing elements in the game like your means of attacking. In the manual, they also HandWave the fact that you're playing as a severed head by saying it's "[[{{Bowdlerize}} a violent holographic projection of Namakubi's head]]".

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The manual makes mention of a sword that fell into the wrong hands, but it is never seen or mentioned again.
%%%%* ZombieApocalypse: And how!

* AlwaysNight
* BattleshipRaid: Stage 3's boss is quite ''literally'' one of these.
* BigBad: Darc Seed.

* ChasingYourTail: Boss of stage 4.
* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The original Japanese title was ''Abarenbou Tengu'' = "Hooligan Tengu"; more on that below.
* CoresAndTurretsBoss: Again. Stage 3's boss.
** In the manual: he's called "Atlas". May also double as ThatOneBoss as he can kill you [[{{OneHit Kill}} instantly on contact]].
* CulturalTranslation
* TheDragon: The Statue of Liberty.
* DestructiveSaviour: Namakubi.
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies:

* FlunkyBoss: Stage 3 once again. I'm beginning to think the developers really liked this guy.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: This game rates up there close to ''VideoGame/MonsterParty''.
** Also, the manual makes no mention of the more disturbing elements in the game like your means of attacking. In the manual, they also HandWave the fact that you're playing as a severed head by saying it's "[[{{Bowdlerize}} a violent holographic projection of Namakubi's head]]".
** In the original Japanese version you play as a giant Tengu mask (and the story says so, too.) Not that it makes any more sense...
* KonamiCode: Refills your lifebar.
* IncrediblyLamePun: The ''HEAD'' of the legendary samurai.....

* ZombieApocalypse: And how!
** Also, [[MemeticMutation Naked Zombie Sean Connery]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: This game rates up there close to MonsterParty.

* LosingYourHead
* NintendoHard:

* WeaponizedLandmark: The Statue of Liberty, who can use her torch as a flamethrower and has snakes for hair.

* DeathtrapBoss: Boss of Stage 3.

* AbnormalAmmo: Namakubi fires his eyeballs and ''chunks of his tongue'' at enemies.

** Also, the manual makes no mention of the more disturbing elements in the game like your means of attacking. In the manual, they also HandWave the fact that you're playing as a severed head by saying it's "[[{{Facepalm}} a violent holographic projection of Namakubi's head]]".

A 1990 NES game developed by [=KAZe=]. ''Samurai Zombie Nation'' chronicles the epic struggle of one man's giant head against an army of zombie ninjas, whom he must kill with {{Eye Beams}} and acid spit, and eat the corpses for extra points.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: Magnetism does ''what'' now?