Dead or School is the latest hack ‘n’ slash title to come out of the Far East, and yes it does involve schoolgirls in peril (when Doesn’T it?). Hence the title… But this one is a little different than the rest. Conceived as a side-story to director and artist Mokusei Zaijuu’s self-published sci-fi manga Machine Doll Nanami-chan, the game was successfully crowdfunded and launched on Steam in 2018; before hitting the Switch and PS4 in Japan a year later. And now we have a Western release of a game that – for all intents and purposes – feels very much like a simpler (if that’s possible) version of the Onechanbara series.
The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo where humans live in isolation underground in fear of the Zombie infestation above ground. After hearing stories of high school life above ground from her grandmother, our protagonist, Hisako, dreams of...
The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo where humans live in isolation underground in fear of the Zombie infestation above ground. After hearing stories of high school life above ground from her grandmother, our protagonist, Hisako, dreams of...
- 4/22/2020
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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