[1][2] In this 16-bit style game, the player controls the character Taro Takahashi, a resistance soldier on a revenge mission against the dictator who lords over the ashes.

[5] The game takes place in an overgrown post-apocalyptic America, after all major American cities were abandoned due to mass radiation attacks in the late 2030s.

Magnus Pierce, a famous inventor and roboticist turned army general, rose to rule over the ashes.

His regime began a large-scale purge of all its real and suspected enemies, including protagonist Taro Takahashi's parents.

Taro grew up to be a core member of the Daybreak Resistance, an insurgency led by Hans Albrecht and Sonia Singh.