Cy Girls


CY GIRLS is an action figure series by Takara Tomy and Blue Box Toys under the brand bbi collectible, featuring an elite unit of female crimefighters, combining the elements of both a doll and an action figure. A Cy Girls video game adaptation was developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2 in 2004.

Action figures

The original variation of the dolls features 16 points of articulation that allows the arms and legs to move out to the sides into a spread position, with movable shoulders, elbows, thighs, knees, ankles, wrists and a neck, featuring interchangeable hands, a detailed nude torso, and pivoting ankles. These dolls are featured in Action Girls: 12" Female Action Figure Guide Book.
In Cy Girls' fictional futuristic universe, the Cardinal-Garrison paramilitary group is an elite all-woman team comprises experts in various fields chosen from around the world. It is a secret global fighting organization established to combat criminal conspiracy and activity, rumoured to have come into existence during World War II. Their vehicles and other equipment witnessed at the scene of the incidents in which they went into action bore the Cardinal-Garrison 'CG' logo, and since the existence of Cardinal-Garrison was unknown, the group became known as the "Cy Girls".
The CG characters series includes the following characters:
In addition to the Cool/Cy Girls line, Takara and BBI released figures available under the Cool Girl brand name with the same trademark logo. This line includes the following licensed characters:
The second type of Cy Girls figures is known as the Perfect Body Female'''. These dolls molds were not based on the ones produced by Takara Tomy and instead they were manufactured and produced independently by Blue Box Toys, featuring 26 points of articulation based on the basic design of the Ultimate Soldier. This double-jointed feature on the knees and elbows enables them to be posed in the lotus position and any other conceivable position the human body is capable of. There are two interchangeable busts of medium and large sizes with nipples molded on them, pivoting ankles and interchangeable hands, designed to hold any weapons or accessory. The products are packaged in a transparent box with a silver painted plastic strip covering the extra bust and the doll is dressed in a grey work-out sports bra with matching shorts.

Video game

Plot

CY Girls the game tells a spy-fi story of CG-1 Ice, the genius hacker and firearms expert on the mission to destroy an information file in the highly secure corporate building in Buenos Aires, 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.
While only Ice and Aska are made available as player characters, other CG member also appear in the game. Aska is also a hidden character in the 2003 video game DreamMix TV World Fighters for PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube.

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.
In addition, all unlocked characters had the ability to 'dive' into the world of cyberspace. Within Cy-D, standard moves were disabled, forcing all characters to resort to using punches and kicks to defeat enemies within the domain. In addition, players would have a maximum of 10 minutes within Cy-D before reaching game over

Reception

The game received the Metacritic score of 53, based on 28 critic reviews, and the user score of 8.3. Cy Girls also received the 55.42% score based on 35 reviews on GameRankings.
Ice and Aska were featured in play's girls of gaming special in 2003. GamesRadar included it on their lists of "the most clueless box blurbs in history" in 2007 and top shower scenes in games in 2008. 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."

Video game