Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues
It sure is nice to have a new beat em up to play. They don’t make too many of these anymore. I particularly like the tie in to the excellent Cobra Kai netflix series. Unlike the show, don’t expect this to have any good writing (save for the genuinely funny one liners that the characters have after winning a fight). This is purely a fighting game, one that is clearly a loving homage specifically to the Streets of Rage series. It’s both better and worse than Streets of Rage 4, which I’ll get in to later. Everyone you run across in the street from hippies to mothers to emo kids are all inexplicably out for your blood, which is funny in its own regard. Sometimes characters will provide humorous meta commentary on this. Every character of note in the netflix series is either playable or is a boss in some level. Cobra Kai has fire powers while Miyagi Do has ice powers. Tone wise, it’s far more light and irreverent than the show; it does not take itself seriously in the slightest. Some might find this off-putting, but subjectively this works quite well.
– Real player with 28.4 hrs in game
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Loved the Karate Kid movies when I was young, I did not really follow the Cobra Kai series but I’m guessing it’s as cheesy as the movies, if not more. There is no lack of cheesiness in this game, that’s for sure.
Beat ‘em Up games also give me those nostalgic feelings of back in the day when I used to play games like; Golden Axe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV, Fighting Force, Double Dragon and Streets Of Rage to name a few.
Graphically, I can’t say the game is gorgeous but it also didn’t really bother me that much. It actually made me think of another Beat ‘Em up “Double Dragon Neon” , a game which I couldn’t get into.
– Real player with 25.2 hrs in game
Super Punchy Face
As Someone Who Likes Side Scroll Hack N’ Slash Beat Em Ups. I Thought This Was Fun. There’s For Sure Areas To Improve In But Overall I Had Fun.
– Real player with 1.9 hrs in game
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BEVERAGE: The Last Call
BEVERAGE is a beat ‘em up roguelite for 1-4 players where drunken anti-heroes save the universe with the power of booze and friendship.
THIRD PERSON BEAT ‘EM UP WITH EPIC COMBOS AND UNIQUE WORLDS
Whack, kick, slice, and crush your way through various worlds, challenges, and bosses. Collect Shards of Chaos to strengthen your chosen hero with drinks, and reach the end to get back the Orbs of Order! Changing arenas and random drinks and challenges keep the gameplay fresh on every playthrough. You choose the path you want to take to face the boss!
1 TO 4 PLAYERS CO-OP ONLINE
Get your friends along the adventure online and kick some chaotic butt as a team! You can also show off your individual progress on your very own paradise islands for fun, booze, and parties.
EXPLORE THE TWISTED WORLDS IN EVERY CORNER OF THE UNIVERSE
Lush forests oozing ogling tar flowers, fishing villages surrounded by toxic waste oceans, steaming automatons taking over mines… The universe is going through a chaotic transformation and only YOU can stop it. Prepare for twists at every corner!
FIGHT CORRUPTED BOSSES AND THEIR MINIONS
Survive through waves of hostile minions of Corruption who are ready to meet you in every realm. Destroy multi-phased bosses and release the Orbs of Order from their hold. As you make progress, so do they so never underestimate what’s coming next!
UNLOCK NEW HEROES, WEAPONS, ABILITIES, AND DRINKS VIA ROGUELIKE PROGRESSION
Choose your favorite out of the four heroes, unlock new weapons, drinks and abilities to personalize your fighting style and build. You have the freedom to choose your own path!
HAVE FUN WITH WELL-MEANING DRUNKS STUMBLING THROUGH AN EPIC TALE
Enjoy the strange new friends and epic twists in this feel-good tale that will keep you entertained for hours on end. You can look for hints of what is REALLY going on in this strange world, or just keep kicking asses of more and more epic opponents!
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DYNASTY WARRIORS 8 Empires
This review will be posted, while having DW5E in mind. Gonna be long.
DW8 Empire is first empire game that come to PC from the series.
You don’t need any of DLC to experience 100% of the game or complete 100% achievement run. Mostly, it’s just flavour.
Game outside of battle aspect got reworked entirely, You are not being considered always a ruler. You can play as Free Officer, Vagabond Unit (a party without a land), Officer under someone, their Lieutanant, Officer, Strategist or Marshal. The last two being almost as the ruler themselfs, but with the option of rebel/betrayal. To win the game, You don’t have to be a ruler, all You have to do, is to be inside the winning force. I lost only once so it’s hard to say if there’s even Game Over screen.
– Real player with 171.2 hrs in game
OMG still in shock with the release of empires on PC. I have long heard of it, but haven’t been able to play the “Empires” of a Dynasty Warriors game since it usually goes out on PS3 or XBox. And here it is, right on my doorstep, on steam. What better way than to test it out.
This review should be unbiased (Sort of), as I have been a dynasty warriors player of Dynasty Warriors 3, 4, 6 (5 skipped due to not being on PC), 7, and 8. I have experienced all the 1 vs 10000 army battles, while slaying down all that stands in my path (including gathering the courage to stand against the mighty Lu Bu, though mostly getting my blade handed back to me 10 times fold).
– Real player with 128.9 hrs in game
SAMURAI WARRIORS 4-II
Intro
Coming straight from Samurai Warriors 2, I expected nothing short of fluid and great gameplay and Koei has delivered
with Samurai Warriors 4-II. I’d always prefered the SW games compared to Dynasty Warriors or the
Warriors Orochi games which I played on the Xbox 360.
I’ll make many comparisons to Samurai Warriors 2 as that was the last SW game I played, back in 2007 and I recenly played again to get that ever so good Nostalgia feeling.
Warriors / Story
– Real player with 212.2 hrs in game
Samurai Warriors 4-II is a sequel to Samurai Warriors 4, or it’s a remake, or it’s Xtreme legends. Or…. honestly exactly what it is, isn’t clear.
The Warrior series has a long history of doing Xtreme Legends which is their “complete” edition usually allowing someone to play both the original and extra levels in one with more characters. However, there’s only one new character, Naomasa II, who is interesting, but not enough for a whole new game. There’s also no way to play the old game, there are just new stories here. It’s not a remake either, as the stories are vastly different, and the characters are the same. The game claims to focus on the characters more in the stories, but honestly, the stories feel the same style as the original game, though the original Samurai Warrior 4 has better stories (At least characters you care about more), but I found the ones in 4-II to be more interesting on some levels. At least it’s not the same story we’ve heard three times already in this series, it’s a new character that the game wants to focus on, which is a good change.
– Real player with 59.3 hrs in game
Blast Brawl 2
For 9.99$ you will have:
1. 12 playable CHARACTERS each other with unique movements, unlockable SKINS and unlockable extra SKILLS.
2. Solo and local multiplayer Story mode.
3.Multiplayer Local Versus
4.Music Theme changeable
-At the start can be bored, but when you start unlocking stuff it become Fantastic.
-For the price, is overwhelmed FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN with a lot of unlockables.
– Real player with 18.9 hrs in game
3.5/5
This game is a party brawler akin to “Super Smash Bros” or “Nekketsu Kakutō Densetsu”(NES). The thing I like most about Blast Brawl 2 is that this is one of those games that kicks your ass. It’s one of those game that forces you to “git good”… sorry but ain’t no hand holding here buddy. the first couple of times you play this your gonna get mandhandled for being a noob. You’ve got to spend hours becoming better, mastering the characters, understanding the importance of dodging, when to use special moves, how to set up baddies for a fall etc.. This isn’t some ole button mash… no sir.
– Real player with 17.7 hrs in game
Cake Bash
I love this game - it’s cute and fun! You choose between different cakes and their “flavors” and either play by yourself locally, local couch with other people, or online against others in a series of party games to become the “tastiest.” The cakes are so cute and make adorable noises, and it’s hilarious to watch them run and throw punches.
To make things easier, if you want to know how to unlock a certain “flavor,” you can look it up in the “Collection” section of the main menu screen, and it will tell you what requirements you need to make in order to unlock them. No more looking up walkthrough’s on YouTube!
– Real player with 20.2 hrs in game
This is absolutely my favorite local multiplayer PC title. It has good controller support for multiple types of controllers at the same time, great games for several styles of competition, cute characters, and smooth easy-to-learn but challenging enough to master gameplay that will make it so your whole family can play, and probably each player will have a few “challenges” they are best in. It’s both cute and funny and a bit brutal, but even as a vegan I can’t feel too bad for desserts knocking each other around. This is a wonderful release that we have been looking forward to for 2+ PAX events and it has totally delivered.
– Real player with 12.9 hrs in game
Kawaii Deathu Desu
Kawaii Deathu Desu is basically the sum of its parts. It is about as straight foward as a game can get. If there is an enemy to the left, attack left. If there is an enemy to the right, attack right. It really is as simple as that. There has been a lot of comparisons to One Finger Death Punch and I can understand where people are coming from but there is one crucial difference: One Finger Death Punch (OFDP) insists that you don’t button mash. You won’t directly lose if you do, but you will be made vulnerable, and will likely die as a result. It will also damage your score at the end of the level. Kawaii Death Desu does not have such scruples. For this game you will have to break out the old crack hands and go to town as you mash left and right slaughtering thousands before you.
– Real player with 31.1 hrs in game
I was expecting something that required a bit of reaction and thinking, like One Finger Death Punch, but instead I found this game to be nothing but mashing. You can beat anything by just killing your fingers.
Then I figured “if it’s so mindless, I might as well put up a macro recording to play the game for me.” So I did. That was a lot more interesting. I actually got quite a kick out of figuring out some kinks that a macro recorder has.
So after one day and one night just letting this fancy screensaver play itself, I got every character unlocked and maxed, and I have zero interest in doing anything with them because the game has no challenge in it. If you have working fingers, you’ll beat it. This isn’t the same as simple being fun, One Finger Death Punch was simple and that was a lot of fun because it bothered to require at least some kind of brain chemistry and had variation. A small child might see the amusement in this thing on a cellphone, that’s who I’d recommend it to.
– Real player with 19.0 hrs in game
Megabyte Punch
Megabyte Punch is an awesome platformer with 4 player versus and coop, highly customizable characters, tons of secrets in maze like levels with tough bosses all in a Super Smash Bros style Brawler.
The main game is fairly short, There are only 6 levels, But each level has 3 parts and each level has a boss and there is a final boss, So this amounts to 18 levels, 7 bosses and a whole lot of unlockables to find. All levels are full with secrets and getting certain parts helps you get to previously unreachable areas.
– Real player with 101.6 hrs in game
As someone who’s clocked more time into this than I can arguably say many people have, and stands as the only game in my library that I’ve 100% completed, I’d probably sound just as you’d expect when I say that Megabyte Punch is just good. Just very, very, veryveryvery good. Don’t even let the 100% completion, or the 50 hours, be what convinces you. Hell, don’t even let my review be what convinces you, either! I’m not exactly an unbiased source of information here!
(tl;dr at the bottom.)
Now, before anything else, I’ll mention off the bat that I got the code for my copy of the game off of a Steam friend; looking back, though, I’d say that I’d have bought this regardless, and maybe some more copies for friends as well. take with that information what you will, as maybe not having paid for it myself’s painted my opinion a little.
– Real player with 61.1 hrs in game
Wrestling Empire
Wrestling Empire is a great game where you can kill people, kick them out the promotion, lead a promotion,blow up things,and customize characters to look like real people with a wide range of customization.
Pros:
-Lead promotions
-Be A manager
-You can die
-Year system with calender
-Able to have a big moveset with wide range of taunts
-Huge move pool.
-Able to walk around with people on your shoulders
- Can bully the ref, annoucers, and managers.
-Can throw people out of windows
-Wide range of areas of people you can brawl in
– Real player with 448.5 hrs in game
*** Best Career Mode in Just About Any Game. Period. ***
I am not a wrestling fan. I do, however, like fighting games. This translates into wrestling games. It’s just good fun to bash opponents and I enjoy the spectacle.
I was on the fence about buying this game. I did, however, play other MCDickie games. This one is by far, his best one yet. So I bought this on a whim.
It’s hard to explain this game. Anything can, and will happen, while you are playing career mode. Just when you think you have seen it all, it doubles down on the WTF factor. It’s not just totally random, since it sometimes does depend upon your choices. It’s like semi-controlled chaos.
– Real player with 282.6 hrs in game