Uploaded September 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Full playthrough of Zombie Nation or "Samurai Zombie Nation" as it's called on the title screen. In Japan it's called Abarenbou Tengu (暴れん坊天狗). This time around I'm playing on hard mode difficulty, using the real cartridge and console. My final score was 474,000.
Stage Listing:
00:00 - Start
01:37 - Round I
06:28 - Round II
11:12 - Round III
16:45 - Round IV
19:35 - Round V - Final Boss + Ending
So here we have another run, but this time on Hard mode. The main difference, and it is actually quite shocking, is that your character has even MORE momentum and is harder to control than ever. I literally cannot think of another game where the difficulty setting has this sort of difference on how your character controls. It may not look like much of a difference when watching the videos but then you play the game and it's like WTF is this.
Anyway, the game is still full of cheap 1 hit kills and near kills like before, but they are harder than ever to dodge due to the ridiculous movement of your hero. The basic enemies might deal and take more damage as well but I couldn't really tell for sure. Once you figure out the controls, it does get easier, but in the end it just feels like playing a more annoying version of the game than on the default/easy setting.
Full playthrough of Zombie Nation or "Samurai Zombie Nation" as it's called on the title screen. In Japan it's called Abarenbou Tengu (暴れん坊天狗). This time around I'm playing on hard mode difficulty, using the real cartridge and console. My final score was 474,000.
Stage Listing:
00:00 - Start
01:37 - Round I
06:28 - Round II
11:12 - Round III
16:45 - Round IV
19:35 - Round V - Final Boss + Ending
So here we have another run, but this time on Hard mode. The main difference, and it is actually quite shocking, is that your character has even MORE momentum and is harder to control than ever. I literally cannot think of another game where the difficulty setting has this sort of difference on how your character controls. It may not look like much of a difference when watching the videos but then you play the game and it's like WTF is this.
Anyway, the game is still full of cheap 1 hit kills and near kills like before, but they are harder than ever to dodge due to the ridiculous movement of your hero. The basic enemies might deal and take more damage as well but I couldn't really tell for sure. Once you figure out the controls, it does get easier, but in the end it just feels like playing a more annoying version of the game than on the default/easy setting.
