Zombie’s Cool

Genre: Top-Down Action

Players: 1

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Review:

Zombie’s Cool is a Top-Down Action game released on PC and Nintendo Switch in 2020. This game has the player taking the role of a young kid who apparently works in a zombie investigation organization… or zombie extermination organization? The English in this game isn’t very good, so it could be either, really.

Yeah, let’s start with that. This game has a story, but it’s so poorly-written that it’s nearly unintelligible. I can detect an attempt at a casual, tongue-in-cheek writing style here (there’s a Devil May Cry joke right at the beginning), but this stuff is mostly so difficult to try to parse, and is delivered so slowly, that it’s going to be better for players to just skip it entirely – I assure you, you’re not missing much.

The rest of the presentation here is serviceable, but not great, featuring simple cartoony 2D visuals and an energetic but forgettable soundtrack. There’s nothing outright terrible here, but absolutely nothing memorable or interesting either.

As for the gameplay, this is one of the more uninspired Top-Down Action games I’ve played in a while. Enemy AI is dumb as a rock, action is repetitive, and this is once again an example of a game that should have been a Two-Stick Shooter that inexplicably does nothing with the right analog stick. Not that players will find this game to be difficult – simply stand in place holding the left trigger to aim and right trigger to fire and point at the closest zombie, wash, rinse, repeat. If a zombie gets too close or is too fast for you to take down before they reach you, then circle around them, get some distance, and go back to standing in place and aiming.

To its credit, the game does try to mix things up by adding slightly-different barricade defense levels (that are more tedious than fun), as well as escort missions and boss fights, and give players the ability to upgrade various parts of their gear between rounds, but none of these offer anything especially engaging.

There are plenty of great Top-Down Action games on the Nintendo Switch (most having the good sense to be Two-Stick Shooters), and even if these alternatives didn’t exist, Zombie’s Cool wouldn’t have anything worthwhile to offer. It’s about as brain-dead as a…. well, as a zombie. Someone should shoot this game in the head and put it out of its misery so no one else has to play it.

tl;dr – Zombie’s Cool is a bland, uninteresting zombie-killing Top-Down Shooter that’s far too repetitive to be worth playing with so many better alternatives on the Nintendo Switch.

Grade: D

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