ZOA-Knights of Eisen

ZOA-Knights of Eisen, is a Musou hack n'slash game similar to the Dynasty Warriors series. Unlike that series, however, ZOA does not have you play as a foot soldier but as a mech suit containing two characters: the pilot, that represents the mech suit, and the Co-Pilot, who is associated with a special weapon used for heavy attacks and powerful super moves. Due to this pair-up system, skills are highly customizable. 
== Gameplay ==
The game plays mostly like the Warriors series.
The player controls a mech suit called an Eisen, composed of a pilot unit called a "Soma" (associated with a frame) and a copilot unit called an "Atma" (associated with a special weapon). They fight against hordes of weak enemies using flashy special moves and AOE attacks, and a score is given basing on how many enemies the player has slain and how little damage has been taken. 
There are two types of attack: a light attack based on the weapons mounted in the frame, and a heavy attack based on the special weapon.
Super moves are split into Blood Attacks and Despair Attacks. Blood Attacks are performed by charging a super meter through kills, while Despair Attacks are randomly given to the player when health is at a critical level.
There are six "elements" weapons are associated with: Physical, Ghost, Laser, Heat, Electric and Gravity. Each element has a particular effect other than damage: Physical does not have effects but has the strongest weapons, Ghost becomes stronger when hordes of enemies are attacked consecutively, Laser becomes stronger when single enemies are attacked consecutively, Heat sets enemies on fire causing constant damage, Electric stuns enemies for a few seconds making them unable to move or attack, and Gravity draws enemies towards the attack. 
Each Eisen has various stats, such as attack, defense, resistance (amount of time you can keep parrying before suffering a guard break), maximum combo length and elemental resistances. 
== Plot ==
The game is set in a space opera setting, ruled by a federation called the Grand Union, composed by the Albions (humans), the Dokram (imposing turtle/kappa-like beasts with pink scales and a black spiky shell), the Mryksut (black three-eyed humanoid creatures with wires for hair), the Vlodrew (blue bird-frog hybrids) and the Hu-Tsai (pale-skinned, reptilian humanoids with snake tails and red markings on the face). The latter were forced to become part of the Union only after the Hitsugu-Saikatsu war and successive disbandment of the Empire of the Grandcrow, which ended in the nuking of the capital Karasuno.
The protagonist, the Blood Raven (real name: Daisuke Shimizu), is a member of the resistance front Yatagarasu, who fights for the independence of the Hu-Tsai race from the Union and reformation of the Grandcrow Empire. He is tasked with the protection of a girl named Yukiho Suzuhana. 
The game starts with the Yashal, Daisuke's Eisen, assaulting the Urthona System, a supercomputer in the Union capital Albion. Since the Urthona is fueled by Zoa energy, Yukiho can interfere with it.
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== Playable characters ==
=== Soma ===
Daisuke Shimizu (Blood Raven)- Frame: Yashal (armed with a katana)
Katsuzou Ninagawa- Frame: Ksitigarbha (armed with dual guns)
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=== Atma ===
Yukiho Suzuhana- Special Weapon: Ghost Hands (Ghost)
Irmin Ibukuro- Special Weapon: Gravity Cannon (Gravity)
Sakal al-Machiyya- Special Weapon: Laser Bow (Laser)
Kashir Tskmyer- Special Weapon: Mega Naginata (Physical)
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== Trivia==
This game is a distant sequel of Final Fantasy 17 (Bushido games), which was about the founding of the Empire of the Grandcrow. This game, on the other hand, starts with its disbandment.
Category:Mecha Games
Category:Hack and Slash Games
Category:Warriors Games