Love Zombies? Help them win in I Love Zombie

9:15 PM on 11.11.2010   |   Josh Tolentino

Zombies. They're the most overdone thing in the world. They're everywhere you turn!

That doesn't mean people can't do interesting things with the concept anymore, though. Which is where I'll highlight Chunsoft's new DS game I Love Zombie, where the player isn't tasked so much with surviving the zombie apocalypse but with helming the zombie apocalypse.

Y'see, a group of peaceful farmers have had "something precious" stolen from them by dastardly villagers. What that "precious thing" is exactly, I'm not sure, but I'd bet that their humanity would be on the shortlist of candidates.

Anyway, peaceful farmers are turned by mysterious gas into cute blue zombies, and it's the player's job to first grow them (on a farm) and then herd them into a proper horde as they overrun the cities and towns, avoiding hazards such as traffic, tasty flocks of sheep, and masked wrestlers.

This is so far the cutest take on the zombie apocalypse I've seen yet (as evidenced by the trailer below), and it's ideas like these that make me think that there might still be a few breaths of (un)life yet in that corpse.

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