Banzai Escape

Banzai Escape
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Metacritic
72
Steam
47.25
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Price
$5.99
Release date
29 February 2016
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72 (85 votes)

Banzai Universe Prologue. Starring Rokiahi as P.A.S.K.A.L special agent.

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Banzai Escape system requirements

Minimum:

  • OS: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10 (64 bit)
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD equivalent
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 / AMD Radeon R5
  • DirectX: Version 9.0
  • Storage: 2 GB available space
  • Sound Card: Windows Compatible Sound Card
  • Additional Notes: Game Only Support 16:9 aspect ratio monitor
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A short but very cool game, i like this.
Usually the games make I drop them and go back to my guitar, so annoying but this one I recommend^^

Crimson AJ
Crimson AJ

Okay this game is fun not so hard in the star but it may get bit harder as the game go on I did not know this was goin to be a railshooter but pretty good game or unite made game I recommend thist to all railshooter lovers it's fun little game

Hime~
Hime~

Turn on the RokiahiMadness language option.

It's the only good aspect of the game.

Inspector Dosh
Inspector Dosh

Just so we're clear, this is just my first impressions after about 1 hour of play give or take so if I happened to miss anything from here, I am probably blind as a bat or I haven't reached that far into the game yet.

First off, this is a game built on the Unity engine so looking at the options menu, it's no big suprise that it's usually bare bones starting off with the graphical settings. All you got is resolution that's fixed to your native resolution and can't change it unless you go into windowed mode, toggling realtime shadows on or off, and some basic form of Anti-Aliasing with the absence of graphical presets, but this game is not very demanding as far as I can tell. For sound, it's just the master volume, no sliders for voice, sound effects ,or music. Languages consists of English and Japanese, with the last one is basically swears with the ability to upload any language of your choice. The help menu is written in broken English, but it's not broken enough to not get the message it wants to say.

The gameplay is an on-rails shooter in a third-person perspective, so don't expect a third-person cover shooter. Looking at the game's screenshots, the UI in-game, and the way to navigate the menus, I have realized this game is a mobile port, but does it really affect the gameplay all that much? To me, not really except some design decisions that happen to get through. There are quite a bit of weapons to take with you on the field, but down the later levels, it really feels like they are just direct upgrades from previous weapons you were currently using and when you select a weapon, it has a button labeled upgrade so I originally thought I could alter stats to make the guns more interesting and make early game weapons still viable to use late game until I realized it's only to increase your ammo reserves since buying the weapon itself only comes with one spare magazine for some odd reason. Honestly it would be tolerable if there was a way to switch weapons at will instead of throwing away your entire primary reserves only to be left with a pea shooter. As an on-rails shooter, it unfortunately suffers the same problems as that god awful Rambo game with no warning markers to tell you if you're going to get hit, but instead of fixed health, you have regenerating health so it becomes less noticably infuriating, even though you still get hit occasionally behind cover. The gunplay feels pretty weak with no visual recoil on the guns with fairly poor sound assets in addition to janky animations almost convincing me that the guns were pre-packaged Unity assets and I say that because I am someone who really enjoys games from Tripwire Interactive. Speaking of recoil, there is no recoil to even speak of because it is actually on a set cone of fire that shoots in random directions so don't even think about trying to control said recoil. Occasionally, they will spawn melee units that instantly kills you for some inexplicable reason since I don't recall melee units in rail shooters instagib players at all, no, I can't think of a single one that does that. The levels themselves are pretty short considering this is a mobile game and it is deliberately designed to force you to replay levels over and over again to get enough money for the gun you need and the ammunition required to pass the level only to repeat the process again in return artificially extending the game longer than what the actual length is.

Perhaps I just have really low standards nowadays, but $6 is an okay price for what this is. Verdict? I can't really find myself recommending it to just anybody really and I kinda feel bad for saying it. I'd only recommend it for those who has the time and cash to burn, but not for those who are desperate for on-rails shooters. If you are looking for on-rails shooters, take a look at Blue Estate and Typing of the Dead: Overkill. Or better yet, Go to an arcade outlet and find Time Crisis 3.

khermerker
khermerker

well probably im being harsh....but well that lasers make me decide that dont try the game...lasers are not funny ...see alll again without any skip is not funny either, is cute but only that....and until you get laser is kinda fun ...maybe if they make a change of that i will put that i recommend ..but at best is neutral....

also needs a form to change weapons....

Daiekimashin
Daiekimashin

Need an improvement but still its fun to play...
need at steam workshop for more customise..

Dangerous Beans
Dangerous Beans

This is a cover rail-shooter like house of the dead or timecop.

Cute model for MC. Value ends there.

TMK
TMK

Finally end this game it have fun and cute :D but so hard
This game should fix many point, I'm have main summarize for this reason.

1.I'm think should have intro cutsecne for preliminary story before main menu to main story.

2.Some sound gun look like BB gun heard it no power, ex. MP5

3.When Ina boss use the attack helicopter and attack player from behind it so hard change cover becauce minigun can attack two way and rohiaki have been kill quickly it make me feel needs luck to survive.

4.Some camera view rather bad, so make more problem in 3.

5.Black screen story when finish level. I'm think you should make it likes cutsecne after finish defend lobby level.

6.The pistol should be damage for Centurian boss. many player maybe haven't enough ammo for the first play.So make bad feeling must restart when near finish level.

7.Should have cutsecne after end cedit.I'm expect player want to know what after and next intend herself about this case. not abruptly ending.

Maybe this game have a lot of defect but interesting system design, Boss system look rather challenge and enjoy to play (P.S. but for use some gun)

For the first pulice I'm think this game is Not bad but I'm not recommend my friend to buy it. Even my close friend have interesting "MOE military girls" still undecided.

how even I'm wish you have next project on steam. :D

I'm give 5/10 SCORE for this game.

Plutia
Plutia

Banzai Escape is shooting game made by Unity.
PROs:
- Girls with guns
- You can customize your character
- Four things you need to do: space (to aim the enemy), S (swap your position), R (reload), mouse (to kill)
- Price

CONS:
- Laser room, where you need avoid laser attack (same to Resident Evil) with mouse, i prefer with ASDW
- Beta is guy? Before the voice, i thought the Beta is a girl.

cokecola
cokecola

It's a short game, but better end-game contents than The Division.

Tsuka
Tsuka

If at anypoint you wanted to play something akin to winback or TC1-2 this does a alright job only bad thing I can think of is the two of the bosses take too much time to take down.

Kikss
Kikss

I played the game for some time, and got all achivements.

-Pros

1. You play as an anime style character who works for the goverment.
2. You are fighting an *Evil orgonization whos 2 main people are anime style characters.
3. You shoot with guns.
4. 4 different enemy types.
5. Laser gun that you get after beating last boss, is OP
6. Last boss is a SPIDER TANK, that shoots lasers has a super cannon and fires slow moving granades.

-Cons

1. Cover to cover shooter, can't choose where to go, only between 2 covers (Even that rarely)
2. Models and animations aren't very good, but they are OK.
3. Voice acting isn't too good ether, and the story is lacking.
4. Game does a bad job of explaining what to do in some places.
5. Laser gun that you get after beating last boss, is OP

Personally, I would only buy this game if it is on sale for at least [-30%] If not, don't waste your money.

* = Not really, in some places there are hints of them being the good guys.

A0
A0

Banzai Escape isn't a good game but it's not that bad either, it feel likes the game maybe has been at first develloped as a mobile game then it was ported as a PC steam game (because of the HUD and all the point and click stuff instead of a proper keyboard binding).

Gameplay : Banzai Escape is rail shooter where you go from cover to cover and shoot anything that move, it's very simple yet effective but way too easy, sometimes the IAs are so stupid that they reload whitout being covered, also when you change cover, they continue to shoot the cover where you were instead of where you are. Also the only real threat are explosives, and being short on ammo (you can buy more ammo for your weapon so buy a lot if you want to finish most of the mission). I mean, the explosives are the only thing that can really kill you quikly, and if you waste all your ammo you lose. Now lets talk about the controls : you can move the character by yourself since it's a rail shooter, you can only make her move from one cover to another and make her aim or not. Also you can't swap between your pistol and your main weapon, so sometimes you are contraint to finish your mission and the boss with your pistol instead of killing the small fries with the pistol. The last bad point is the laser part : there is a mission where you have to dodge some lasers, the partern are very easy to gasp but the control are terrible : you have to use your mouse to move Rokiahi and that's just painfull to do, that's where you can see it's a mobile game : maybe it's easy to do with a touch screen but on pc it would be way better if it was controlled by the keyboard. One last thing : do not play the game with the heavy rifle, it's way too easy with that weapon, because even if you can't shoot with that while being covered, it deals so much damage that you will kill anything before it have the time to do anything.

Art and graphics : it's very average but I comming from a unity based game I guess it's okay. It's not that ugly, and honestly, it could have been way worse. Also you have character customisation but it's very limited but it's worth to mention.

Sound and musics : Well, it's nothing exceptional either, the sound design is okay (even if it lack variety but coming from an indie game it's okay) and it even have voice acting (which is pretty bad but they made the effort to do so, so it's a good point). The musics are okay but forgivable.

Story : That point is confusing, at the start of the game you are just thrown into the action without any intro and you do not really understand why you are here. You only apprehend the story at the end of the game and overall, coming from a game like that, they didn't made a bad job, it's okay (the end is wtf though)

Summary :

Pros :
- Voice acting
- Funny game if you are bored

Cons :
- Can't switch between your pistol and your main weapon
- the part where you have to dodge the lasers

50/100 If only steam had a "balanced" bouton. It's not that bad, nor it's good but it's worth taking a little look into that, yet I don't recommand you to buy it at full price because it's really short (2H and half).

Hizi~
Hizi~

A really great game.

The graphics are quite sweet, the characters are really stylish and well modeled, the music fits in, the voice acting is quite good for an indie game, and the gameplay is a good rail-shooter.

I've seen many people complaining about no WASD movements, which is understandable, although this game is a rail-shooter, not a third person shooter.

Although the game is really hard (#memories of copter combat#), it's definitively worth it.

8/10 Gameplay
9.5/10 Graphics
7/10 Audio

8.5/10 final

Would definitively play again ~

vert ☆
vert ☆

Dark Souls + Time Crisis + Moe Characters = This !

If you are masochist anime fan and into difficult game, this is game for you.
This game will make you replay and replay and replay and again, because it's hard af
I can't even beat it XD

I used to like Betas back then until I realize, that Betas is TRAP XD

Solis
Solis

Gonna give my honest opinoun, yes I know I spelt that wrong. Regardless, the game is great like the price.

' b-but u onlly have 0.2 hourssssss ', I know. Don't get me wrong, I love the game as much as I love Xeno's mods. But Jesus Christ, is this game difficult. It's like playing Portal without having any knowledge on puzzles. I can't even get past the second level after the tutorial without dying.

Again, still great. Especially since this is Xeno's first game. But I do expect more games in the future Xeno, a lot more. Hopefully in Banzai Escape 2, ( if you even decide to make it ), it's a third person shooter. :')

Also, my personal fav achievement is ' Rokiahi N00b '. Mostly because it's describing me.

Paratsuba
Paratsuba

I can not pass the Laser room with mouse is almost impossible! The character moves everywhere except where you want.10/10

Сражайся, живи!
Сражайся, живи!

Remarkably hard little game, stylized and modelled well, even for a simplistic rail shooter.

G-WORM
G-WORM

You can clearly see that this is a low budget game. The story and characters are nothing but a big cliche. The voice acting is bad. There are sections in the game which have infuriatingly bad controls (I'm looking at you, laser room). And it's very short.

So, why do I still give it a thumbs up?

Because most imprtantly I had a lot of fun playing this game. It also has something that most AAA games don't have: it was made with passion. What's also surprisingly good for a low budget game are the character models and animations. It felt like they put a lot of time into creating them. I generally liked the character design in this game. As cliched as they were, the characters are very likeable, especially the main character who I personally adored. The level design was a bit questionable at points but offered a lot of variety. Ironically I wish they stretched out some parts of the game. The music also wasn't bad at all. So despite all the cons, this is a pretty solid and enjoyable game. It's not the best game ever made or a GOTY candidate, but most definitely exceeded expectations.

I'll be waiting for Episode 2!

Jean
Jean

Good:

+ good and entertaining railshooter (for me)
+ fun trying guns
+ female protagonist was symphatic (i love these panic moments)
+ fun little game, not really hard, if you watching closely and study
+ every wep has its advantages and disadvantages
+ wow no bandaid (top)
+ sometimes you get killed instantly (thank god), so you have to look closely
+ simple storyline, hope for a more better Part 2 (would pay even more)
+ fun to try the stages over and over
+ music was good for environment
+ good work on physics, music, background for really small studio :3

Bad
- minor bugs
- Detention Area (mouse movement was quite buggy)
- some character model and enemy issues but that was not really important

I think if there more ppl help with Part 2, it will be even more great. this game was pretty much entertaining. i look forward to the second installment. 85% from me.... :3

|| MIGI
|| MIGI

In my opinion it's a bit pricey with what it has to offer.
But the game itself is good with a decent storyline.

The controls are a bit ehh for me
and the rewards you get after every round is lacking for the price of the armory.

But come on it has Rokiahi in it...
So I recommend this game to anyone who likes shooting and cool girls lol.

MaddyS99
MaddyS99

"This Game is God Awful" - Jato

The_Scriblerian
The_Scriblerian

The only real fault of this on-rails shooter is being overly ambitious. The shooting controls are tight. There's plenty of fire-arms to try out. And the character customization, no matter how limited, is always a welcome touch. Where the game falls flat is when you must utilize its more unintuitive controls. There are brief, almost mini-game like segments where you must jump over, duck, and sidestep environmental hazards by using your mouse's directional inputs. It's laggy, inelegant, and can easily end an otherwise perfect run.

Nevertheless, I maintain there is far more right than wrong with "Banzai Escape." If you can overlook a few rough spots meant to break up the monotony of blowing away anything that moves, there's a lot of fun to be had in this arcade blast-a-thon. If you're already curious about this title, I doubt it will leave you feeling disappointed. Give it a try.

Vent Xekart
Vent Xekart

Banzai Escape is a Rail Shooter by Xenoaisam, a guy who was known at one point for making custom anime-themed models for gamers and he had a bit of a following for players in the Obsidian Conflict and/or Garry's Mod communities. Some of the models he's made are ones of his own original characters and universe. Banzai Escape is part of that universe with the protoganist being his character Rokiahi whose objective as an operative of PASKAL is to raid Amino Corp (which is said to have ties to the terrorist organization SPECTRE) and capture it's founder Asword Betas all the while shooting your way through various bad guys including the forces of SPECTRE themselves and/or the security personnel of Amino Corp.

Now gameplay-wise it reminds me of the shooting-gallery-esque minigames in Star Wars: Rebel Assault II - Rebel Strike in that you are only able to switch cover positions whenever you can or take cover while gunning down enemies. You start off with an SMG and a pistol but after getting past the first actual level you can buy some better weapons using money you get off dead enemies. A majority of them are fire-arms but if you get past the final boss you'll be able to get an energy weapon if you have the money for it. Most of the enemies you'll face at first are some grunts armed with various guns ranging from pistols to shotguns to assault rifles but you'll occasionally have to deal with grunts wielding riot shields, grunts throwing grenades, and flying drones armed with machine guns. The bosses can be a bit challenging though if you memorize the patterns in which they attack and if you're using one of the upper-tier weapons than fighting them will be a piece of cake.

The levels are decent in terms of combat and navigation but the environments remind me a lot of some of neo-futuristic locales in anime/manga such Academy City from Toaru Kagaku No Railgun/A Certain Scientific Railgun and to some extent some of the cities in the Pokemon animated series. This style can also be seen with the graphic design work done for the GUI and/or the HUD.

Originally, the dialogue was full of grammatical and/or spelling errors but this has largely been corrected by Xenoaisam with some help from some of his friends, fans, and associates. Other than that though my only major gripe is that the system that is used to buy weapons and ammunition because you need to buy a shit ton of ammo for whichever primary weapon you plan on using because otherwise you could end up being reduced to your pistol without enough ammo to keep you locked and loaded throughout the level. Thankfully, Xenoaisam has plans to fix and/or improve it for Banzai Escape Ep.2.

All in all, its not a bad start for the Banzai Escape series but once again I do believe that this game along with its sequel(s) have room for improvement especially in terms of some of the gameplay and/or game mechanics.

6.9/10

b0177
b0177

Not a great game but not worst either, some mission require lots of ammo and some annoying sequence here and there but I finished it at last, from what I've seen in the trailer the sequel is better than this so I'll definitely check it out if its release. Its not that I recommend this game but there are far more worse games out there

SpacePants
SpacePants

Good game. Entertaining. Frustrating at times to learn the mechanics of the levels (like when to switch covers) but at least it wasn't boring. For what it was it was pretty good. I got it on sale.

リン
リン

worst game ever.you can't kill the red enemies at all.bullets don't do anything and the hit reg is absolutely god awful

iwem.xo
iwem.xo

A decent effort for a first game, but too clunky to recommend. Reloading takes a long time, as does swapping between cover. Neither is interruptible, making for some frustrating deaths that feel like the game robbed you. Also you have to buy ammo for your weapons? This is the first shooter I've seen do this, and I can see why. I ran out of ammo during a mission and got a game over for it, and it just didn't add anything fun to the game.
You get enemies with shields, right? Do you shoot them in the leg? Maybe the gun hand? Nope, you shoot the shield a lot so they get dizzy or something.
Couldn't find a way to swap between weapons besides running out of ammo for one of them.

So yeah, decent idea, mediocre excecution. Especially when we've got House of the Dead and Blue Estate on here too.

Catsyl
Catsyl

It's good but it has a few flaws to it, I've encounter a few bugs with it such as the enemies with the shotguns are just doing one shot kills even when I'm only was with only one bullet. plus some of the enemies' corpse of flying around and some are shooting through the walls.

in1tiate
in1tiate

10/10, would look at identical pictures of grass while shooting 200 bullets at a door again.

Berry Wuffs
Berry Wuffs

Do I like this game? Not really.
Is the game good? Not really.
Is it worth the price? I got it on sale for $0.90 and I don't know.

It may be a first game attempt but boy does it show. At certain parts, enemies would hit me while I was in cover despite this being a cover based on rails shooter. Reloading/shooting sticks out more of the character's body so living is really not something yer likely to do first runthrough of the game. The shield guys are amazingly annoying with their high health value to stun them and by the time they are stunned you're out of bullets and have to reload and they recover in that reload window (starting weapons only, granted, but the first level has three of them lined up next to eachother and you only have starting weapons). The targetting reticle is this weird diamond shape with a line going to the lower right without any clear indication of where exactly your bullets will go. The gun selection is limited with no option to change your pistol to something that will give you the option to keep progressing in the level rather than be ignored by bosses/tougher enemies. You have to buy clips for your gun to increase how much ammo you will start the level with which the game was in no hurry to tell me about and never did.

Does it have replay value? Well I mean you have to replay levels to get enough funds to get better guns to do damage to bosses that will be immune/take reduced damage from starter guns/what have you.

Honestly this game feels more like a game you'd find on Newgrounds or Armor Games or some flash game site, know what I mean?

Do I recommend this? I mean...the girls look weird so can't recommend it for that. The gameplay can be frustrating at times and janky at other times so can't recommend it for that. The voice acting...is a thing in the game.

Look, if you're willing to overlook a few bruises and weird dark spots on a banana then go for it. Maybe you'll get some enjoyment out of it. Just don't pay full price.

vegetarianqueen
vegetarianqueen

Better than Perfect Dark... Zero.

DsC.sashusilver
DsC.sashusilver

Crap game, clipping bugs everywhere.Soundeffects also crap.

Claytonic
Claytonic

Here's what you do:

You go through levels shooting at enemies while popping in and out from behind cover. Some places you can move back and forth between cover spots where it becomes necessary to avoid grenades or something. You are given money after each level which is used to purchase new guns and more ammo for your guns. Levels do not have checkpoints because they are all short.

What I like:

+ You can customize the outfits of the three main characters (one playable) in the story, but there aren't a whole lot of options.
+ The game is open about users adding mod material, but there hasn't been a lot made in the steam community, sadly.

What I don't like:

- The game is short: eight levels which take three to five minutes each to play.
- A handful of grammar mistakes in the dialog text.
- The story ends on a cliffhanger, but there is a sequel game out now.

Conclusion:

I recommend this game because I found it fun, but I must say it feels short, has grammar mistakes, and not a lot of replay value (which it would have if it came with more customize options). It didn't crash or bug out on me, but it lacks a lot of polish. Maybe wait for a sale. I will be on the look out for better on-rail cover shooters, but there are few pickings on Steam right now.

Want a more detailed look? Watch this:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2099105343

Rinix2
Rinix2

Solid 8/10
A short linear shooter that you can complete in just a couple of hours with decent aim.
Game is not too difficult nor is it too easy, though obtaining gear requires a little bit of grinding remember to stock up on ammo. There is no checkpoint system in-stage therefore the whole level will restart upon failure.
Story and characters leave a lot to be desired, but are acceptable nonetheless.
There is a bug at the final stage which prevents the player character from firing after switching to the second cover position, but overall game-play was smooth without any crashes, graphical issues, or game breaking bugs.

LetMeDwight
LetMeDwight

Wow.
The story was really tough and the controls were very simple at the beginning, but that also increased dramatically in the later course of the game.
After playing through it, I still have an oppressive feeling that I only know from Half Life or good anime when you can't wait to watch the sequel.

Snow Astray Cookie
Snow Astray Cookie

I'm certain everyone who has played maybe said more that sums up the game, but here's my review-

Positive: while I've played the game, my attachment to the Rokiahi, and her journey to arresting Betas was never expected; I was amazed at as I played, she struggled, and too had a bit of doubt. the one thing that makes me smile while playing as her, is having the best weapon to take care of the job before it was too late.

Negatives: while I was doing the Ina Boss Level, I kept getting obliterated out of existence, which there was the "upgrade your gun" niche, which not everyone will just grind money, and just to go and kill Ina without a bit of firepower. 9/10 there are moments, where the boss cheated me, and moments where I cheated myself altogether. (Ina is still beatable, but I'd highly recommend upgrading your weapons, otherwise you're going to be frustrated.) (barely any cosmetics, but still grateful nonetheless)

Overall : this game is amazing, the protagonist is likable overtime. the antagonists were tolerable even. the enemies are a challenge but can change depending on your gun, and skill. last but not least if you plan to buy this game, You Will NOT Regret It.