Onechanbara Z2: Chaos is a hack and slash game where you chop up minions of the underworld.... with scantily clad ladies. Okay not all are scantily clad, but half of the casts are, unless you dress up the other half in similar outfits. Anyway, in this game, you will use your blades or other weapons to dismember, chop, bifuricate, decapitate zombies, werewolfs, gargoyles etc. You get to play as four women, with Aya and Saki making another appearance from their previous Onechanbara games (not on PC), as the representative of a Vampire branch clan called the Baneful, and the newcomers Kagura and Saaya that represents the Vampire clans. Aya and Kagura are the matured women shown on the game cover, providing the role of the big sister, also known as onee-chan (hence the game title), while Saaya and Saki are the younger sisters aka imouto.

You hack and slash your way through countless mobs, when they die, they drop few things, such as orbs as a method of currency, where you can buy weapons, consumables and moves. Occasionally they will drop a blood orb, which will increase your character blood meter. Once your character blood meter is full, you can undergo a transformed mode, where you will have super armor, along with a constantly replenishing Ecstasy meter, and Blood Orb will heal you instead. This mode is only temporary though, once expired, you will revert back to normal. The Ecstasy meter is basically your super meter, the more meter filled, the more powerful your super move will be. Each character have a total of 3 Ecstasy Combinations, though you will have to learn them blood meter. Your weapon will also have a blood meter, the more blood collected on your weapon, the slower and less effective it will be. To remove them, you will need to refresh your weapon, like cleaning it. Another meter present is the Cross Merge meter, where it allows several characters to join into the fray once their Cross Merge meters are full. Plot wise (that plot, not THAT plot), it's pretty straight forward. Go here and there, stop the outbreak, find the source of the outbreak, kill it.

Each level may have a boss, sometimes several. To effectively kill bosses, you need to sufficiently damage them, and do a QTE prompt that appears on screen. Some bosses have one prompt only, while some others have several at different HP levels. Failing to do or complete the QTE will allow the boss to recover with a very little amount of HP added back into their HP pool. Basically, as long as you don't do the QTE, they will stay in a stunned mode, until a certain period, where they will recover. This is quite good for farming points, if you are those high score type of player. Some areas have a mini arena where you are trapped until you cleared everything. At the end of a level or area, you will be graded on your performance (how much damage taken, how much points scored, death penalty and item usage).

As someone who likes scantily clad girls, they are quite an eye candy, bonus if you got the banana bikini outfit. Hacking and slashing about hundreds of mobs on the same screen is very bloody and frantic, which is fun. Moreso if all the girls are on screen, and each of them doing their own Ecstasy Arts, then it's a beautiful ballet of destruction. All bloodied up, covered with body parts everywhere while the girls are doing their own thing is a beautiful sight to behold. Especially Kagura and Aya, in their bikinis.... I mean outfits. :3

However, there are a lot of issues with this game. For starters, they do not support full screen if your resolution does not match the game's resolution option. When I mean this, there will be a black border around your screen, which will effectively screw up the Steam overlay. You can disable the Steam overlay for this, but it's quite annoying. Alternatively, you can played in windowed mode, though your graphics will be quite grainy. As mentioned, the plot is really simple, which is just an excuse for the girls to fight stuffs. Getting everything may require multiple runs of the story mode or missions, thus it's a mini grind in a sense.

Sometimes the game audio kinda slows down when going from in-game to the main menu, kinda like a slow mo music, but it will recover. The AI for a certain boss is pretty odd as it will derp out and just run somewhere, giving you free rein over him. Occasionally, there will be some crashes, but it's really, really rare. Though, when the game was just released, I experienced crashes EVERY SINGLE TIME the save file was loaded. I couldn't get into the main menu. Just an FYI, though I never encounter this crash anymore. The biggest offender this game has is the input displays. Since it's based on a console port, WHY ARE YOU SHOWING ME A DOUBLE CIRCLE INPUT WHEN I AM USING A KEYBOARD?! To make it worse, WHY IS IT BINDED TO NUMPAD 2 when nothing about it is mentioned in the keybinding options?! This is another problem faced by another game that was released at the same time, which was Senran Kagura. It will show you the input for the console controller, but NOT for the keyboard. WHY?! You will have to find out the keys for some QTE prompts via trial and error, which is quite infuriating.

Overall, despite the issues faced when I got this game, other than the resolution issue, everything was quite alright. I spent many hours on it, mindlessly killing everything I see in my way, admiring the rear view of Aya and Kagura (sorry Saaya and Saki). I can safely say, if you are into these kind of hack and slash games, with scantily clad women, and also able to play dress up with them, go ahead get this game. Though make sure your parents or other (younger) siblings aren't watching you play this game, due to the excessive blood and violence (and nudity I guess). Also get it when it's on sale, as it's way more worth it then. DLCs... I guess if you are into dressing up. Though I really hope you will have a relatively trouble free playthrough with this game.

A 5.5 out of 10 rating from me.

Onechanbara Z2: Chaos is a hack and slash game where you chop up minions of the underworld.... with scantily clad ladies. Okay not all are scantily clad, but half of the casts are, unless you dress up the other half in similar outfits. Anyway, in this game, you will use your blades or other weapons to dismember, chop, bifuricate, decapitate zombies, werewolfs, gargoyles etc. You get to play as four women, with Aya and Saki making another appearance from their previous Onechanbara games (not on PC), as the representative of a Vampire branch clan called the Baneful, and the newcomers Kagura and Saaya that represents the Vampire clans. Aya and Kagura are the matured women shown on the game cover, providing the role of the big sister, also known as onee-chan (hence the game title), while Saaya and Saki are the younger sisters aka imouto. You hack and slash your way through countless mobs, when they die, they drop few things, such as orbs as a method of currency, where you can buy weapons, consumables and moves. Occasionally they will drop a blood orb, which will increase your character blood meter. Once your character blood meter is full, you can undergo a transformed mode, where you will have super armor, along with a constantly replenishing Ecstasy meter, and Blood Orb will heal you instead. This mode is only temporary though, once expired, you will revert back to normal. The Ecstasy meter is basically your super meter, the more meter filled, the more powerful your super move will be. Each character have a total of 3 Ecstasy Combinations, though you will have to learn them blood meter. Your weapon will also have a blood meter, the more blood collected on your weapon, the slower and less effective it will be. To remove them, you will need to refresh your weapon, like cleaning it. Another meter present is the Cross Merge meter, where it allows several characters to join into the fray once their Cross Merge meters are full. Plot wise (that plot, not THAT plot), it's pretty straight forward. Go here and there, stop the outbreak, find the source of the outbreak, kill it. Each level may have a boss, sometimes several. To effectively kill bosses, you need to sufficiently damage them, and do a QTE prompt that appears on screen. Some bosses have one prompt only, while some others have several at different HP levels. Failing to do or complete the QTE will allow the boss to recover with a very little amount of HP added back into their HP pool. Basically, as long as you don't do the QTE, they will stay in a stunned mode, until a certain period, where they will recover. This is quite good for farming points, if you are those high score type of player. Some areas have a mini arena where you are trapped until you cleared everything. At the end of a level or area, you will be graded on your performance (how much damage taken, how much points scored, death penalty and item usage). As someone who likes scantily clad girls, they are quite an eye candy, bonus if you got the banana bikini outfit. Hacking and slashing about hundreds of mobs on the same screen is very bloody and frantic, which is fun. Moreso if all the girls are on screen, and each of them doing their own Ecstasy Arts, then it's a beautiful ballet of destruction. All bloodied up, covered with body parts everywhere while the girls are doing their own thing is a beautiful sight to behold. Especially Kagura and Aya, in their bikinis.... I mean outfits. :3 However, there are a lot of issues with this game. For starters, they do not support full screen if your resolution does not match the game's resolution option. When I mean this, there will be a black border around your screen, which will effectively screw up the Steam overlay. You can disable the Steam overlay for this, but it's quite annoying. Alternatively, you can played in windowed mode, though your graphics will be quite grainy. As mentioned, the plot is really simple, which is just an excuse for the girls to fight stuffs. Getting everything may require multiple runs of the story mode or missions, thus it's a mini grind in a sense. Sometimes the game audio kinda slows down when going from in-game to the main menu, kinda like a slow mo music, but it will recover. The AI for a certain boss is pretty odd as it will derp out and just run somewhere, giving you free rein over him. Occasionally, there will be some crashes, but it's really, really rare. Though, when the game was just released, I experienced crashes EVERY SINGLE TIME the save file was loaded. I couldn't get into the main menu. Just an FYI, though I never encounter this crash anymore. The biggest offender this game has is the input displays. Since it's based on a console port, WHY ARE YOU SHOWING ME A DOUBLE CIRCLE INPUT WHEN I AM USING A KEYBOARD?! To make it worse, WHY IS IT BINDED TO NUMPAD 2 when nothing about it is mentioned in the keybinding options?! This is another problem faced by another game that was released at the same time, which was Senran Kagura. It will show you the input for the console controller, but NOT for the keyboard. WHY?! You will have to find out the keys for some QTE prompts via trial and error, which is quite infuriating. Overall, despite the issues faced when I got this game, other than the resolution issue, everything was quite alright. I spent many hours on it, mindlessly killing everything I see in my way, admiring the rear view of Aya and Kagura (sorry Saaya and Saki). I can safely say, if you are into these kind of hack and slash games, with scantily clad women, and also able to play dress up with them, go ahead get this game. Though make sure your parents or other (younger) siblings aren't watching you play this game, due to the excessive blood and violence (and nudity I guess). Also get it when it's on sale, as it's way more worth it then. DLCs... I guess if you are into dressing up. Though I really hope you will have a relatively trouble free playthrough with this game. A 5.5 out of 10 rating from me.