Touch the Dead

released on May 15, 2007

Touch the Dead (titled Dead 'n' Furious in Europe) is a rail shooter/survival horror game for the Nintendo DS developed by Dream On Studio and published by Eidos Interactive under its brand Secret Stash Games. The game's box art was created by artist Arthur Suydam, famous for his work on the Marvel Zombies line of comics. Touch the Dead is a rail shooter. Players use the stylus to point at oncoming zombies on the bottom screen. Pointing fires the weapon Steiner has equipped. Shots can be delivered to the head, arms, legs, and stomach. To reload, players must simply grab a clip icon (located in the bottom right hand corner of the touch screen), and drag it to the bottom left hand corner which has an image of the 'magazine'. The D-pad and face buttons of the console are simply used to switch weapons. Both serve the same purpose, and work for both right-handed and left-handed players. Health and ammunition can be recovered by shooting crates and cabinets. The player also has the option of shooting switches to open doors and choose a left or right path when a fork appears. Either path chosen will still yield the same bonuses.


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This is a shitty and generic House Of the Dead knockoff with horrendous and gimmicky controls. All I really have to say is that there's nothing positive I can truly list here. This is genuinely one of the worst games I've ever played. Stay far away from this pile. At it's core, it's an insanely hard and broken mess, filled with terrible DS gimmick controls.

The core of rail shooter gameplay works near perfectly, but good lord this is difficult. There's almost 0 room for fucking up your reloads even in the first chapter, and when I realized the first boss didn't have a checkpoint I gave up. Maybe worth a shot another time since it is quite solid and has that wonderful PSX horror vibe, but I just don't have the drive to trudge through this again and again. Even though I didn't make it all that far, I already found myself exhausted with the early parts which have nothing to offer after your first time through them.

Those fucking rats, though.