These days, if you want to create instant fun, it seems as if the solution is to “just add zombies.” Undead Knights for the PSP, from publisher Tecmo, takes this philosophy and runs with it by injecting a healthy dose of reanimated rotting corpses into mundane, screen-filling hack-and-slash action. The idea of transforming hordes of enemies into your own personal army of shambling doom is an intriguing one, but in the case of Undead Knights, the end result is little more than a Dynasty Warriors-style game sauteed in extra zombies.

You play as one of three pallid, undead warriors hell-bent on revenge. They were once loyal knights serving under King Gradis in the kingdom of Cavalier, but because the knights suspected the king’s beautiful (and overly buxom) new queen of foul play and witchery, they are murdered at the behest of the king. After their deaths, a mysterious being known as “The Beast” offers to revive them as undead and grant them the power to turn their enemies into zombies under their control. Though there’s a twist or two thrown in for good measure, the plot mostly serves as a straightforward excuse to make a soldier-slaying and zombie-making mess.

Yes, you can turn this big lug into your very own pet zombie.

Undead Knights attempts to play up the drama with cutscenes, but a few strange elements make it difficult to take the presentation seriously. The major enemy characters in the game are voiced-over with dramatic acting that is appropriate for the game’s fantasy medieval setting, but your characters sound like rejects from heavy metal and punk rock bands. The dialogue is scripted to match the voices; thus, your enemies speak lines that are–again–appropriate for the setting, but your own characters will throw in vulgarities for no other purpose than to titillate the player (or perhaps the writers), and no one’s mouth moves at all during spoken lines. The only explanation for this odd mixture is perhaps that the game is going for unintentional humor.

Thankfully, none of these odd decisions get in the way of the gameplay. On the field, your characters can slash, jump, evade, and grab. Grabbing an enemy turns him into a zombie; grabbing a zombie allows you to either throw it or smash it into the ground for an explosive attack. There’s a delay–determined by how strong he is–from when you grab an enemy to when he’s fully converted into a zombie. This encourages you to weaken said enemy enough to the point where you can instantly convert him. With each successful conversion, you fill up a meter under your health bar that, when full, allows you to unleash a devastating combo attack that renders all victims zombies. Beyond this, though, there’s little technique you’ll actually need to employ. Because you’re likely to be crowded by a mass of soldiers at most points during combat, you’ll be just fine if you mash on the weak attack button for a few swings and then repeatedly hit the grab button.

Having the zombies on your side is advantageous because they’ll keep lesser enemies distracted, but their most notable use comes when you have to overcome obstacles. You can command your zombies to destroy archery towers, as well as siege machines and barricades. Comically, you can also throw them onto spiked wrecking balls so that they roll into enemy forces, and you can command them to form a bridge across chasms. If you’ve ever craved a game in which you can walk across the backs of undead minions, then this is it. Once the initial glee of controlling an undead army dies down, however, the game’s tedious pattern becomes painfully clear. Most of the level design boils down to fenced-off kill rooms, so more often than not, you’ll simply enter an arena-style environment, slash at soldiers, convert as many zombies as you can, and then hold down the R button to command them to wreck something. Occasionally, larger and more powerful enemies will visit to make things interesting (at which point you’d best employ your special attack), but it’s not until the last one-third or so of your playing time that things get really challenging and the whole repertoire of enemies comes at you supplemented by multiple traps, such as land mines, cannons, and spike traps.

You’re encouraged to slaughter as many enemies as possible while completing each chapter as quickly as possible because the game ranks your performance and awards you dark energy with which you can upgrade your characters’ abilities. Sadly, the list of upgrades isn’t exciting: All you have to look forward to is maximum health, increased attack power, two combination attacks, and a few peripheral abilities and buffs. There aren’t any new weapons to discover. There aren’t any magical abilities or new special attacks to learn. What’s most disappointing is that the possibilities for powerful, inventive, or even amusing new zombie techniques are never explored.

You’ll be hard-pressed to find another game that lets you walk across the backs of your zombie servants.

The zombies themselves are almost all the same–shirtless blue-bodied detritus–which makes sense because a great majority of the enemies are the same armored soldiers differentiated only by the colors of their smocks. With a few of the larger executioners and monsters thrown into the mix, combined with some of the more detailed fortress environments, Undead Knights looks decent enough. The frame rate never bogs down to unplayable levels, so some of the flatter character models can be excused, given that you might see dozens of enemies on the screen at once. Again, though, it’s not until much later into the game that you’ll see anything more interesting than rocky paths, dirt trenches, or the inside of a stone fortress. (One embarrassing note: Enemies will spawn out of thin air, sometimes right in front of your face.) The music fares slightly worse because it consists almost entirely of wailing electric guitars churning out angry yet generic riffs that all start to sound the same by the third hour. All told, the presentation is almost as tedious as the gameplay.

Undead Knights offers you three difficulty levels from the start, allowing you to go through any of its 20 chapters on “Hell” difficulty if they get too boring. It also has its own list of achievements (dubbed Revenge Titles) that unlock for such things as throwing a certain number of zombies, turning a certain number of soldiers or larger characters into zombies, destroying a certain number of structures, and the like. They’ve been given amusing names, too, with some favorites being “Boom Goes the Dynamite”, “Tenacious Z” and “World’s Greatest Boss” among others. The game allows you to revisit any chapter to improve your rankings and throws in three multiplayer modes for good measure as well. These are actually more interesting than the main game: One mode has you throwing zombies at a second player to see who can score the most hits; another has you racing through several areas before fighting to the death; and the last one is a token Survival mode. The amusement of chucking corpses at each other or pummeling each other after a race isn’t necessarily worth playing through six hours of the single-player game just to unlock every multiplayer map, but it’s nice to have these options.

There’s nothing entirely terrible about Undead Knights, except for maybe the soldiers that infinitely spawn out of nowhere. It’s just disappointing that the action remains so simple and unremarkable when many similar games exist for the PSP. This is especially true when you consider that creating a zombie army–its one leg up on such games as Dynasty Warriors and Warriors Orochi–doesn’t let you do anything much more exciting than demolish an iron gate.

Nov 24, 2008 – Review

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Remnants

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don’t you think she is gorgeous huh???

yahahaha….^^

this cute girl is a half demon….she’s one of my original character in SCORPION….
i try to draw the detail with a oil painter color but i rather doubting it….i knew that i still unable to draw with oil painter color properly, therefore i decide to draw it with pencil color…and the overview is just not bad i think….^^~

it’s already submitted on my deviantart account

http://vermilionnero.deviantart.com/

just visit it if u want to see the comments from other artist….^^v

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School first before hobby….(-_-‘)a

u____________u

I was quite busy with my school activity today, but somehow…I have to drawing much besides my homework and my courses schedule…drawing more than 5 artworks is completely blowing me up, but that’s my job anyway~

Yea…
Drawing and keep in touch with painters and paint brushes is my world…so even tough I was soooo busy with my school…I’ll keep the art project to running…^^v

My room was full with undone artworks….
And that’s totally not good to see my room in following condition…I dun wanna see my mum’s face turn into a monster’s face when she found my room in a WOW mess o_Olll…so I hope I can finish those drawing sooner….

Forthright, a messy room gives me more inspiration to creating better art…*lOl*
Natty room is just empty and I won’t found anything in it…doesn’t it right???
*there’s somebody agrees?*

• Listening to: YUI – Life
• Reading: Kamiyadori
• Watching: L change the world
• Playing: Mafia Wars
• Eating: Sweets
• Drinking: Ice Chocolate

Beyond Birthday (also known as Rue Ryuzaki/B, BB) was the 2nd child taken in at Wammy’s House, in an attempt to create a successor for L, and was the serial killer behind the Los Angeles BB Murder Case.

Beyond Birthday has never appeared in the manga, anime, or film series to date, but the BB Case was briefly alluded to in both manga and anime. He was born with Shinigami Eyes, which allowed him to see and know when exactly people around him would die, as well as knowing their full names. He uses this ability to pick his victims and kill them when they would have been destined to die. It is unknown how he could have possibly been born with the eyes, though Mello wonders if a Shinigami dropped its eyeballs to Earth (instead of a Death Note). Some have claimed that Beyond Birthday is a cannibal, but this is only a rumor. The novel did not say anything about him eating his victims’ remains. Though this could be true, further information has yet to be revealed. During the investigation of the Los Angeles BB Murder Cases with Naomi Misora, B is described to have jars filled with strawberry jam in the victim’s fridge. Some people also speculate that similar to L and Mello’s craving for sweets, Beyond Birthday craves strawberry jam. However, he was only said to have eaten an entire jar one time in Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases and Naomi Misora never witnessed him doing so again, though she herself wondered about the same thing. It is possible that his love of sweets during the entire time with Naomi Misora was a charade as well. Although mentioned only once in the book, it is also implied that Beyond Birthday practices laughing quite often. Also, it is interesting to note that his laughter is referred to by Mello as a “Shinigami’s laugh.”

Note: Beyond Birthday exists as a character in the novel “Another Note.” The events from this canon Death Note novel occur before the storylines of both the manga and anime.

History
Little is known about B, though he and A (real name unknown) were the first two children in line to succeed L. The pressure of Wammy’s House proved to be too great for A,which caused A to commit suicide, while B wound up running away at some point.

His whereabouts remained unknown from May 2002 to the beginning of the story, L having tracked cases around the world to search for him. Beyond Birthday came up with a plan to surpass L, as the “World’s Greatest Criminal”, giving L a case that B hoped he would be unable to solve.

Beyond Birthday (also known as Rue Ryuzaki/B, BB) was the 2nd child taken in at Wammy’s House, in an attempt to create a successor for L, and was the serial killer behind the Los Angeles BB Murder Case.

Beyond Birthday has never appeared in the manga, anime, or film series to date, but the BB Case was briefly alluded to in both manga and anime. He was born with Shinigami Eyes, which allowed him to see and know when exactly people around him would die, as well as knowing their full names. He uses this ability to pick his victims and kill them when they would have been destined to die. It is unknown how he could have possibly been born with the eyes, though Mello wonders if a Shinigami dropped its eyeballs to Earth (instead of a Death Note). Some have claimed that Beyond Birthday is a cannibal, but this is only a rumor. The novel did not say anything about him eating his victims’ remains. Though this could be true, further information has yet to be revealed. During the investigation of the Los Angeles BB Murder Cases with Naomi Misora, B is described to have jars filled with strawberry jam in the victim’s fridge. Some people also speculate that similar to L and Mello’s craving for sweets, Beyond Birthday craves strawberry jam. However, he was only said to have eaten an entire jar one time in Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases and Naomi Misora never witnessed him doing so again, though she herself wondered about the same thing. It is possible that his love of sweets during the entire time with Naomi Misora was a charade as well. Although mentioned only once in the book, it is also implied that Beyond Birthday practices laughing quite often. Also, it is interesting to note that his laughter is referred to by Mello as a “Shinigami’s laugh.”

Note: Beyond Birthday exists as a character in the novel “Another Note.” The events from this canon Death Note novel occur before the storylines of both the manga and anime.

History
Little is known about B, though he and A (real name unknown) were the first two children in line to succeed L. The pressure of Wammy’s House proved to be too great for A,which caused A to commit suicide, while B wound up running away at some point.

His whereabouts remained unknown from May 2002 to the beginning of the story, L having tracked cases around the world to search for him. Beyond Birthday came up with a plan to surpass L, as the “World’s Greatest Criminal”, giving L a case that B hoped he would be unable to solve.