Dead or School

Largely a solid game, with just a couple of let downs.
Buyer warning:
* Lots of big chested anime girls; and the game somewhat implies that the zombies are threatening them sexually rather than carnivorously. Up to you whether you consider this Bad or Good.
* If you want a metroidvania, this isn't exactly that. It's maybe more like Strider where the game is linear with side exploration and heavy combat.
Good:
* Fairly tight design. It does borrow from a number of games but it has it's own setting and it executes well.
* Somewhat challenging. You respawn on death and you can farm enemies; so it overall doesn't seem tough. But at 8 hours of pushing through the game without farming, the game seems very well balanced in terms of being challenging but yielding on a second attempt when you pay attention to the challenge.
* Very competent skill tree and loot systems. I'm only 8 hours in so I'm not sure it doesn't fall apart towards the end of the game; but it certainly seems solid at 8 hours in.
Bad:
* There's some very noticeable bugs in the game. The main area for bugs seems to be slopes on the ground - the game will tilt your fire angle on slopes when firing dead horizontal would be more natural. Your character might also stop suddenly while walking against an indiscernible change of gradient, and you need to jump to cross what appears to be flat ground.
* The controls aren't super tight. Sometimes inputs seem to get eaten when trying to quickly change weapon; and switching between your weapons is a strongpoint in the game's combat design.
* Sometimes when fighting on a hill, enemies standing uphill can't be seen due to the UI panels. the game actually has a button for toggling the UI that works around this. It's not a huge deal but it's a good example of how the game's design isn't watertight.

I'm not usually a big fan of these type of games but this one had me hooked after 30 mins.
The graphics are visually beautiful, the combat is smooth and innovative in my opinion and the lvl up system feels so rewarding!
each area takes around 1.5-2.5 hours, which is good for what it has to offer.
As of writing this review, I have 3 areas left and I've been going for 100% in each area.
Complete the side missions, there's lewd pics as rewards most of the time lol

My One Sentence Review Quote would be
"If you liked high school of the dead and side scrollers this is the game"
Honestly better than I expected, would definitely buy again if it was on sale
story is ridiculous at times so dont expect a serious story here its mostly the goofs and the looting that I enjoyed oh and I guess the tearing of clothes :^)

I bought this game for the...visuals...but it turns out this game is freaking AWESOME. The combat is smooth, controller support is solid. Gun aiming is a little wonky, but it's very Contra-like. Fighting is fast-paced and highly enjoyable. If you get it on sale - so much the better.

A surprisingly well-thought-out side-scrolling hack-and-slash, where less is more.
Bosses are fun to fight, and maps have lots of gimmicks and puzzles.
Game play is fairly tight, and there are lots of weapon varieties to play with.
Hisako is a very cute baka.
The story basically exists to give the director an excuse to stuff in whatever he thinks is fun, and this works out surprisingly well.
I hope to see another game from this team.

This game was FUN.
At its core, it's a platformer with RPG elements combined with enough ecchi content to keep you, er, engaged for the ride.
Seriously, just look at the preview pictures. Nearly every female character (which makes up 80% of the cast) is gorgeously drawn like that. The player character, the Survivor NPCs, the villain, even the bookish scientist lady who's your Mission Control! Plus your clothes get scantily torn up when you sustain enough damage, which will happen quite frequently.
The gameplay itself? Starts off easy but there's a steeper difficulty curve after around Chapter 3. This is where you REALLY get into the different weapons and modifiers and see which ones work for you. Luckily you pick up so many of them from fallen enemies (plus, no inventory limit), that once you sell them, you've got the enough funds to upgrade whatever weapon you feel is best. I recommend using a keyboard and mouse to play; I've tried a controller but moving the crosshairs as you're double-jumping the enemy got too chaotic and difficult.
There's some sidequest puzzles with some nice rewards (cash, weapons, mods) if you manage to solve them.
Performance-wise, if your PC meets the Recommended specs, it should be mostly smooth sailing. There was some heavy framerate drops when I had 30+ enemies on the screen with Maxed-out graphics settings and a bunch of projectiles flying everywhere, despite having an i7-4790 and a GTX 970. It only happened for about 30 seconds in the final chapter, and not during boss battles, so I wasn't bothered by it.
The plot? What plot? Well I guess there's plenty of "plot" and actually a pretty decent story throughout the game - feels a lot like the standard manga/anime sci-fi fare from the 90s. Helps to flesh out the game, but isn't too in-depth, and that's fine.
We all know why we buy these games - and DEAD OR SCHOOL fills that niche pretty nicely.

Absolutely good game!
It's not a fanservice game, don't get tricked by the tags
The story and grinding is very good, the hits also feels nice and there are lots of weapons variety
If you're into anime hack n slash then this game is definitely for you!
The gameplay is also quite long (around 20 hours for me to complete the game)
The big con in this game though there are lots of bugs, like going through walls, or player still in jumping animation while already at ground, but the bug is still tolerable, there are also no end game content
I finished this game 4 days after buying it.
Really worth it!