AKB48 Arcade Shoot-em-up “Sailor Zombie” gameplay preview is open to public!

kevinMario February 15, 2014

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The hints of a shoot-em-up arcade game featuring AKB48 have been dropped by Bandai Namco Games for a while now, they’ve even got an official micro site to feature the up and coming game – but today, Bandai Namco games finally dropped the gameplay preview!

The members that are confirmed to be in the game are:

Kojima Mako
Nishino Miki
Iriyama Anna
Kawaei Rina
Watanabe Mayu
Kashiwagi Yuki
Oshima Yuko

You can compare the Zombie versions of these members with their real faces below:

: AKB48 Sailor Zombie – Oshima Yuko

: AKB48 Sailor Zombie – Watanabe Mayu

: AKB48 Sailor Zombie – Iriyama Anna

: AKB48 Sailor Zombie – Kashiwagi Yuki

: AKB48 Sailor Zombie – Kawaei Rina

: AKB48 Sailor Zombie – Kojima Mako

: AKB48 Sailor Zombie – Nishino Miki

Apparently, it looks like that there will be a rythm / dance / music element included in the game as well by looking at this screenshot!

How that’s going to work… well, let’s just hope the good blokes at Bandai Namco came up with a solution that will satisfy both shoot-em-up and rhythm game fans!

Sailor Zombie Stage Event at Makuhari Messe

Japan Amusement Expo 2014

Earlier today (14/02), Umechan and Suzuran attended the Stage Event at Japan Amusement Expo 2014 in Chiba’s Makuhari Messe to test play the game and present it to the press.

The idea of the game is to save the AKB48 members by shooting them with vaccine-injected bullets to turn them back into humans.

Asked for their impression after finishing the play-test, Umechan said “I’m so impressed and surprised at the same time of the idea of mixing both idol and zombies in one game (lol)”

She also added that “I really enjoyed the game a lot. It was so fun AND scary at the same time, but the sense of achievement after you manage to save a member felt so good! Everyone, please lend your help and save the members that’s been turned into zombies!!!”