The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai (Game)

The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai

GAME » on April 1, 2009

The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai is a 2D action game created in XNA for Microsoft's "Dream, Build, Play" competition, and became one of the winners of the competition. It is currently available for 800 Microsoft Points.

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Overview

Players control a young man referred to as "The Dishwasher (Character)", who rose from the grave to seek bloody revenge. The Dishwasher is armed with two cleavers at first and builds his arsenal throughout the course of his adventure.

Players hack and slash enemies until they are stunned and are susceptible to a finishing move by the simple press of a button. Players can use a strong or a quick attack, or alternatively opt for a grab move.

Game Modes

Story Mode

There are 14 levels of story mode and 5 difficulties:

Easy
Normal
Ninja
Samurai
Tourney

The levels are listed below. Note: During story mode there is a Guitar mini game in where you must press the correct button as it hits the middle box. Getting over 70% will earn you a pick, which is used in upgrades.

Arcade Mode

Arcade Mode is comprised of 50 levels. Each includes a number of rooms featuring a set number of enemies. Each has its own theme and equips you with two specific weapons and one magical power. These rooms can be played cooperatively with two or three people (however three person coop is unranked). Additionally, according to the Ska Studios founder James Silva (Person) the Arcade rooms will sometimes employ certain modes such as: * Vampire: Your health is constantly being drained, but monsters give more health when killed.

Bullet Time: All monsters move at half speed.
Aerials: Monster are only damaged while airborne. Learn those air combos!
Instakill: Everything deals 4x damage, so baddies turn into red mist pretty quickly.

In the Arcade modes you do not play as the Dishwasher but as one of two Cyborgs Hunters. Thought at this stage to be called Loïc (the blue guy) and Hargreaves (the red guy). At this stage it is unknown who or what the third co-op character is. The levels are listed below.

Practice Mode

Practice your moves here.

Dish Challenge

Fight off wave after wave to compete for the highest score. This is sort of like the standard game arena, ranking overall score and a weekly rush score. This one is all about combos. The way scoring works is a bit like Tony Hawk–the more hits and kills you get, the higher your multiplier is. Your multiplier is accumulated while you keep a combo running. How can you tell a combo is running? There’s a little red progress bar under your combo count that let’s you know–once the bar runs out, your combo ends and the combo score x multiplier is added to your current score. This leads to some super-addictive game play–the challenge for Dish Challenge is not to survive the level (well, it isn’t a cakewalk either) but to do it as one long combo.

Weapons

Melee Weapons

All unlocked weapons in the game can be upgraded via the Halperbotshop. Each weapon has it's own version of the combos.

Meat Cleavers: The weapons you start the game with, the Dishwasher dual wields them. Using the right stick or holding LT and using the Left stick makes the Dishwasher do rolling dodges.
Shift Blade (The Samurai Sword): The Dishwasher obtains this from the first boss in the game. The weapon grants teleporting abilities which replace rolling dodges when using the right analog stick. Uses Shadow Samurai Technology.
Kama (The Scythes): Similar to the cleavers as they are duel wielded. Possibly replacing the meat cleavers in later levels. Uses Blade Frenzy.
Chainsaw: A chainsaw with Ultimate Destructive Capabilities.

Long Range Weapons

Machine Gun/Shotgun : Regular attack uses the sub machine gun while heavy attack uses the shotgun.

Dish Magic

The Dishwasher can use magic by the use of green skulls.

Levels

Story Mode

Foghorn Cafe
Ivy Trail
Gray Fortress
St. Crux Cemetery
Nord Trainyard
Drome Rail
L'Opera Dramatique
Meatron District
Grave Chapel
Mono Catacombs
Cam Rooftops
Cam Lobby
In Processing
Cam Cove

Arcade Mode

Get Your Feet Wet
Swatfed!
The Pitt
Bridge To Nowhere
Ogremania!
Robot Death Cube
Skavoovie!
Rooftop Jocks
Jet Smashers
Night At The Opera
Alley Rumble
Flying Cleaver Style
Paybill Revenge
Zombie Smashers Yo!
If You Were A Tree...
Stone Cutting
One Way Ticket
Rooftop Rampage
Enter The Catacombs
Freaks And Geeks
Hostile Takeover
Tricky Narrows
Process This!
Skyscraping!
Fear The Technology
Shotty Creeps
Swat Syrup
L'Opera Robotique
Skulls Of Frustration
Commandos, Living And Dead
Vulkies And Vikes
It's Raining Zombies
Back To The Street
Cemetery Man
The Killing Yard
Death Is Coming!
Ranting At The Opera
Green Skull Vengeance
Boardroom Bloodbath
Altered States
Doc's Last Stand
Ubertanked!
Zombies From Space!
The Labyrinth
Vikings Don't Do Dishes
Robot Rampage
It's Gray!
I <3 Halloween
Boardroomblitz
Final Showdown

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