A lot of content planned for the game was cut during development, including a playable prologue, additional cutscenes, improved enemy AI, lots of weapons and special moves, "Marian's Escape" mode in which the player would play as Marian escaping from her captors, "Renegade Abobo" mode in which the player could play as Abobo helping Marian escape, and the three main characters from Combatribes being playable in Survival Mode. In addition, Marian would have appeared in Survival Mode after every 20 beaten enemies to refill some of the player's health.

According to Muneki Ebinuma, the game's planner, the developers took a lot of influences from Bruce Lee's movies to the game. One of the most notable is the cover and promo art being an imitation of the cover art for Lee's Way of the Dragon.