# Cy Girls (video game)

Cy Girls is a 2004 spy-fi video game for PlayStation 2.

## Plot

CY Girls the game tells a spy-fi story where in 2058, "Damnation Monday" was the name of a disaster where power failure occurred worldwide. This caused the collapse of various countries and companies. The game's story takes place in 2084, 26 year after "Damnation Monday".
The game has two CG agents as the main characters. CG-1 Ice, the genius hacker and firearms expert on the mission to destroy an information file in the highly secure corporate building of a company known as Net Justice in Buenos Aires (where she is navigated by her partner Sancho), and CG-6 Aska, a master female ninja with astonishing athletic ability attempting to avenge the death of her father in a secret village in Japan (where she is navigated by her brother Kogetsu).
While only Ice and Aska are made available as player characters, other CG members also appear in the game.

## Gameplay

Gameplay for CY Girls combines puzzle-solving with two distinctly different combat styles: ninja-oriented melee combat and stealth for Aska, and firearms combat for Ice. Essentially, the game was two different games depending on the character choice, as the game was released as a 2-disc package, containing Aska's data on one disc and Ice's data on the other. After completing the main story on a disc, additional characters from the story were unlocked, as well as an 'Extra Mode', where players could choose any combination of weapons, any unlocked character, or any outfit.
Ice and Aska fight with different weapons and techniques. Ice fights with firearms, using cover mechanics that include taking cover behind walls/objects and shoot at enemies. Ice can use gunfight moves such as somersaults and cartwheels when using auto-targeting. For Aska, she fights with a ninjato and other ninja weaponry. Aska has a guard meter which depletes every time she's able to block a physical attack. In addition, Aska's able to run on walls.
In addition, all unlocked characters had the ability to 'dive' into the world of cyberspace. Known as Cyber Dimension or Cy-D, standard moves were disabled, forcing all characters to resort to using punches and kicks to defeat enemies within the domain while new moves and skills are only founds in cyberspace data points. In addition, players would have a maximum of 10 minutes within Cy-D before reaching game over (explained in-game as being the amount of time the character could remain within Cy-D without suffering a complete mental breakdown.)

## Development

On May 9, 2002, Konami announced that Cy Girls will be released for the PlayStation 2. It was announced at the 2002 Tokyo Toy Show (TTS) that the game would see a 2003 release worldwide.
Konami said that the game would be shown on May 22, 2002, at the annual E3 convention. During the convention, Konami confirmed plans to release the game in North America. The game was also previewed at the 2003 E3 convention.
Cy Girls is made up of two discs. Disc 1 is for Ice's scenario while Disc 2 is for Aska's scenario. The game uses the same engine used for Metal Gear Solid 2.

## Reception

Aggregate score :
| Aggregator | Score |
| Metacritic | 53/100 |
Review scores :
| Publication | Score |
| Computer Games Magazine | A− |
| Electronic Gaming Monthly | 5.67/10 |
| Eurogamer | 2/10 |
| Famitsu | 26/40 |
| Game Informer | 4/10 |
| GameSpot | 5.1/10 |
| GameZone | 4.8/10 |
| IGN | 5.8/10 |
| Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine | |
| X-Play | |
| Entertainment Weekly | B |
| Playboy | 50% |
The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 26 out of 40. Tokyo Drifter of GamePro said, "You would have to be an insanely devoted fan of the action-figure line from which the characters originate and a fan of repetitive level exploration to gain any type of enjoyment from Cy Girls. It all seems like such a waste as there are ideas present that could have made a good game great, but in a bad game like this, they only manage to bump the score by a point."
Ice and Aska were featured in Play's girls of gaming special in 2003. In 2009, GamesRadar+ counted Cy Girls among the games "with untapped franchise potential," commenting that the game "failed in many ways, with half-formed ideas and shoddy level design that had the player incessantly backtracking through levels." It also included the game on its list of the top shower scenes in games in 2012.