Foul Play

I want to fucking love this game, not because I necessarily love the old timey theme, I kind of think it’s over played and just not my thing but there’s just so much fucking heart in every bit of this. I love the art style, I love how everything feels like a play, how characters will get pulled off screen with canes, the constant scene changes, the pretty funny dialogue, how the crowd reacts to everything, and the design of the enemy’s and your characters. But the games just not there. It’s a 2d side scrolling beat em up and it just becomes a button masher too fast into the game. It has some depth with parrying and combos but when I play a single act for 10-20 minutes and then they have these specific challenges that require you to replay through really really repetitive levels the drive isn’t there and the only thing I’m playing for is too see more of the art and when the game isn’t that fun the whole time I can’t see myself playing over 20 levels multiple times and on the increased difficulty. If this gameplay works for you, this may be one of your favorite beat em ups but if not it’s just kind of sad that with so much promise that hook isn’t there.