Hello gamers! How are you? I hope everything is going well! Today I claimed a pretty good anime/manga pixel art game on Epic Games, as the cinematics have a completely anime "webtoon" style and some manga. The entire game is in pixel art. It's really a pretty interesting title, with a theme that may seem silly, but it's actually very well designed. So, here it is. It's still free.
The story itself is simple: Two high school girls whose boyfriends have been kidnapped. The principal is completely against you, and the students will try to prevent you from finding the kidnapped boyfriends. Little by little, it becomes more mysterious, and you meet various characters, but the game itself focuses entirely on the fight inside the school first, and little by little you can unlock new maps, as well as go back to unlock secret doors.
The combat dynamics are excellent; it has a very arcade-like spirit, similar to the arcade games, with a fluid movement similar to today's style. And something I think is a very good addition to the beat-up games of this era: the ability to level up, unlock attacks, and more. This allows us to progress and unlock quite interesting progress with our character.
In addition, we'll have different objects and accessories to personalize our character's attacks and abilities to become stronger or more resistant to enemy attacks. So, little by little, we'll advance not only in the story but also in our character.
We can choose two of the main characters to play, and each will have their own fighting style. I've only tried one of them, but I want to progress through the worlds by swapping characters. In itself, this great beat-up is challenging, classic, and entertaining, with a fluid combat system and a skill tree that's worth unlocking and advancing as you play. See you in a future post.
I haven't played beat-em-ups (bmups?) in quite some time. If you are old enough perhaps you remember back when this was basically 50% of the video game market.
The story is cute with this one but I wonder, did you ever suffer through the game that the title is most likely based on called "River City Ransom" on the NES? Now that was a really strange game.
So true, every other game felt like a Beat-em up and now they have almost vanished from the industry. Maybe the demand of local co-ops sunk too much?
I think everything goes by stages, tastes, and generations. Note that something like what happened with Beat 'Em Up happened not long ago with the Battle Royale genre, for example, and so on. MMOs also had their time. I think one of the things that allowed for such a massive amount of production in Beat 'Em Up was the ease of extracting codes as existing templates, where companies would practically build on something already done and just start modifying and adding their own details.
Of course, how could I forget it? Beat 'Em Ups practically had their own bubble in the video game world. I don't remember that one specifically, but one Beat 'Em Up that made me suffer on the NES was Battle Toads. Thanks a lot for your comment!
The first beat em up that I was truly captivated by was Double Dragon on NES. I recall getting into trouble when me and my younger brother snuck out of bed to quietly play an hour or so more after bedtime. My mom has the ears of a hunting dog though, and quickly discovered us even though we were being really quiet.
hey this video game looks really cool, I haven't seen it on EPIC yet, I really like its aesthetics and like all beat em up games it looks entertaining, the fact that you can upgrade your character as you go along is great, it's like a slight RPG element, I also like that you can go back to previous levels to unlock things that you couldn't before :D
Thanks for your comment bro! I'm really recommended to play!
and yes the possibility to modify the character make a extra point
I was so looking forward to trying this game. Now I just need to find some free time.
Is really nice! ;) Thanks for your comment!
It's a lot of fun and the gameplay feels great, which is the most important thing for me in games of this type. I recommend you take a look at its sequel, it's more or less the same but with some things more polished.
I didn't know the game had a sequel! Have you already played both? I've enjoyed what I played. Thanks for your comment
Yes I played both and 2 is great. I'm sure if you like this one, you'll probably love 2 too haha.
I played River City Ransom for the NES, but I didn't know that there was a new installment of this saga. The pixel art on this one looks nice.
Thanks for your comment bro!
Oh. This game gives so much nostalgic memories way back with my Gameboy due to the graphics and animation. I will have to go check out if the game is available for mobile or PS5
Maybe yes because i see a lot of epic free games are in ps5. Thanks for your comment!