History VideoGame / NightSlashers

* DualBoss: After chasing down the carriage in the second stage, the players have to deal with a hunchback rider and his [[EvilDoll haunted puppet]] as minibosses. Played with for the fourth boss fight; there are two spirit bodies, but they share the same vitality meter, and landing the lethal blow on one will immediately destroy the other.

* MonsterMash: The game has the player fight all sorts of monsters. Regular enemies include zombies, werewolves, and knife-wielding psychos, while bosses include a MadScientist, a FrankensteinsMonster, a vampire, and TheGrimReaper.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Jake Hunter is a psychic cyborg serving as a monster hunter.

* RockMonster: The boss of the second stage, who rises up to attack after a sphere takes control of its pile.

* KnifeNut: One of Dr. Ripper's attacks is throwing a scalpel at you.

* BigBad: The main villain of the game is King Zarutz, an infernal spirit [[HauntedTechnology possessing a robot behemoth]] out to conquer the world by killing humanity with an army of monsters.

* DiscOneFinalBoss: Done twice. The game at first sets it up like the Vampire Lord is the main villain. After the goal of sealing off the portals to the netherworld is completed, it then looks like TheGrimReaper will be the final boss, but he also turns out to be a subordinate. Ultimately, it's revealed that King Zarutz is the main villain.

* DualBoss: After chasing down the carriage in the second stage, the players have to deal with a hunchback rider and his [[EvilDoll haunted puppet]] as minibosses.

* ImMelting: Some enemies' flesh melts away upon defeat with no explanation, most notably the first miniboss, who's human (and, except for all the blood he lost, with an intact corpse in the first part of the cutscene after destroying his Homunculus).

* MadScientist: The first stage's miniboss (apparently named Dr. Ripper if the second minigame is evidence), who's introduced slicing apart a zombie before approaching the players and offering to turn ''them'' into zombies. You then will have to battle a FrankensteinsMonster type homunculus (the stage's boss) after dealing with him.

* SinisterCar: The carriage at the beginning of stage 2. While it won't attack, its purpose is to take the Vampire Lord to his castle. The players has to chase after it while battling the werewolves interfering with the progress.

''Night Slashers'' is 1993 [[UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame arcade]] [[BeatEmUp beat 'em up]] developed by Creator/DataEast, and it's notable for two reasons: 1) It's one of the few beat 'em ups that deliberately utilize campy horror tropes, featuring all-favorite monsters such as zombies, werewolves, and psychotic killers. 2) Although beat 'em ups are never far from violence and blood, ''Night Slashers'' is surprisingly graphic, not afraid to show intestines spurting out as the enemies fall down. These made ''Night Slashers'' a class of its own, and it became one of the most sought Data East games after years.

* DragonsUpTheYinYang: Exemplified in Zhao Hong-Hua, a Shenxian Daoshi (i.e. Transcendent [[Taoism Daoist]] Sage) who wields the powers of the Fenghuang and the Long.

* DragonsUpTheYinYang: Exemplified in Zhao Hong-Hua, a Shenxian Daoshi (i.e. Transcendent [[UsefulNotes/Taoism Daoist]] Sage) who wields the powers of the Fenghuang and the Long.

* BalanceSpeedStrengthTrio: Christopher Smith is a JackOfAllStats, Jake Hunter is a MightyGlacier, and Zhao Hong Hua is a FragileSpeedster.

* CarFu: The first stage opens up with the gang storming into a horde of zombies with a van.

* MadScientist: The first stage's miniboss (apparently named Dr. Ripper if the second minigame is evidence), who's introduced slicing apart a zombie before approaching the players. You then will have to battle a FrankensteinsMonster type homunculus (the stage's boss) after dealing with him.

* AnimatedArmor: The third stage's miniboss, who's controlled by an EvilWeapon. Defeating the armor destroys the blade somehow.
* BalanceSpeedStrengthTrio: Christopher Smith is JackOfAllStats, Jake Hunter is MightyGlacier, and Zhao Hong Hua is FragileSpeedster.
* BigBad: The main villain of the game is King Zarutz, some sort of skeletal robot behemoth out to conquer the world by killing humanity with an army of monsters.

* CarFu: The first stage opens up with the gang storming into a horde of zombies.

* DiscOneFinalBoss: Done twice. The game at first sets it up like the vampire boss is the main villain. After the goal of sealing off the portals to the netherworld is completed, it then looks like TheGrimReaper will be the final boss, but he also turns out to be a subordinate. Ultimately, it's revealed that King Zarutz is the main villain.

* HammeredIntoTheGround: Doing a down air move can do this to most enemies to stun them. The player can kick em' while in that state. You gotta be careful, however, because most of them can still fight back while stuck.
* ImMelting: Some of the enemies' flesh melts off upon defeat with no explanation, most notably the first miniboss, who's human.

* MadScientist: The first stage's miniboss, who's introduced slicing apart a zombie before approaching the players. You then will have to battle the FrankensteinsMonster (the stage's boss) after dealing with him.

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Jake Hunter is a psychic cyborg serving as monster hunter.

* SinisterCar: The carriage at the beginning of stage 2. While it won't attack, its purpose is to take the vampire to another location. The players has to chase after it while battling the werewolves interfering with the progress.

* RockMonster: The boss of the second stage, who rises up to attack after a sphere takes control of its pile.

-->'''Hunters''': It's safe in here. Leave the rest to us!
-->'''Citizen''': Who...Who are you?
-->'''Hunters''': Us? I'll tell you who we are...

-->'''Citizen''': Who... Who are you?

* HammeredIntoTheGround: Jake's air move can do this to an enemy to stun them. The player can kick em' while in that state.

* BalancePowerSkillGimmick: Christopher Smith is JackOfAllStats, Jake Hunter is MightyGlacier, and Zhao Hong Hua is FragileSpeedster.

* LargeHam: The voice acting is generally this. Notable one is this speech from Christopher every time he gets up
after knock down:

* Hammered into the Ground: Jake's air move can do this to an enemy to stun them. The player can kick em' while in that state.

* ImMelting: Some of the enemies' flesh melts off upon defeat with no explanation, most notably the first miniboss.

* MadScientist: The first stage's miniboss, who's introduced slicing apart a zombie before approaching the players. You then will have to deal with the FrankensteinsMonster after dealing with him.

* {{Expy}}: Some players noted that Christopher looks like [[DavidBowie a certain musician]].

* LargeHam: The voice acting is generally this. Notable one is this speech from Christopher every time he gets up after knock down:

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--->NIGHT SLASHERS

* BossBanter: You have time to exchange a word or two with bosses.

--->NIGHT SLASHERS
* LargeHam: The voice acting is generally this. Notable one is this speech from Christopher every time he gets up after knock down:
-->'''Christopher''': You caught me off guard!
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Jake Hunter is a psychic cyborg serving as monster hunter.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: For those not too fond of the gore, ''Night Slashers'' offers optional dipswitch setting to replace them with tamer version, which paints the blood to green and simplifies the gory animation.

* AffectionateParody: ''Night Slashers'' is likely a product of homage to various cheeky horrrr films from ''Franchise/EvilDead'' to ''Film/{{Braindead}}''.

* AffectionateParody: ''Night Slashers'' is likely a homage to various cheeky horrer films from ''Franchise/EvilDead'' to ''Film/{{Braindead}}''.

* CarFu: The first game opens up with the gang storming into a horde of zombies.

''Night Slashers'' is 1993 [[UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame arcade]] [[BeatEmUp beat 'em up]] developed by Creator/DataEast, and it's notable for two reasons: 1) It's one of the few beat 'em ups that deliberately utilize campy horror tropes, featuring all-favorite monsters such as zombies, werewolves, and psychotic killers. 2) Although beat 'em ups are never far from violence and blood, ''Night Slashers'' is surprisingly graphic, not afraid to show intestines spurting out as the enemies fall down. These made ''Night Slashers'' a class of its own, and became one of the most sought Data East games after years.