This game is rated ESRB: Everyone for Animated Violence.
A horizontal scrolling shooter developed by Irem and released in arcades in 1993, In the Hunt puts players in control of a combat submarine navigating hostile underwater and surface environments. The game was later ported to the Sega Saturn, PlayStation, and Windows 95 PC by Kokopeli, as well as the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Players engage waves of enemy vessels, submarines, and other military threats while managing attacks from multiple directions across scrolling stages. The game is notable for its detailed, heavily stylized visuals characteristic of Irem's arcade output of the era, depicting murky underwater battlefields and industrial enemy installations. Rooted in the traditional side-scrolling arcade shooter format, In the Hunt offers the kind of continuous action and pattern-based combat typical of the genre, carried across multiple platforms following its original arcade release.
An organization known as the D.A.S. (The Dark Anarchy Society) uses magnetic doomsday machines to melt the polar ice caps and thus desolate the world. Although the entire world is flooded, a few societies survive to build over the highest structures they can find and continue living. In this post apocalyptic scenario, the D.A.S., who were prepared for this catastrophe, reign supreme over the survivors with martial law and military weapons of extraordinary power. Upon learning of a new D.A.S. superweapon being developed, "Yugusukyuure", the remaining survivors who are terrorized by D.A.S. secretly organize a rebellion force using a newly developed submarine known as the Granvia. The Granvia’s mission is to dive into D.A.S. enforced waters, territories and eventually the D.A.S. headquarters itself to destroy every single D.A.S. weapon in sight.
