Blades of Gory

Not much of a fighting game in terms of complexity, you only have 3 attacks and 3 parry moves, so you don't need any practice with characters. Essentially you only have 2 choices, you can parry to get the frame advantage, or you can spam attacks instead, not very complicated (oh and you can taunt as well). As far as I can tell, all of the characters have the same moves, although the range and damage seem to be different. I would still recommend it for anyone that likes pixel art, it's a very silly game with decent humor. When you play arcade you have to beat all of the characters, and then you get to fight 4 bosses which have different mechanics. The game features a few different modes, including the arcade, versus, 3vs3 and sudden death. [h1] Pros: [/h1] + nice stage variety and pixel art + fun boss fights + couple different modes + achievements (broken at the moment) [h1] Cons: [/h1] [u] Glitches [/u] - I encountered a few different bugs, such as occasional stutter, freezing and the unwelcome usage of F12 key which overlaps the screenshots. Achievements are broken for me as well. [b] Overall Thoughts: 7/10 [/b] The game is so silly with its visuals and characters, it's hard not to love it. It's fun to beat the arcade a few times, the bosses can be pretty hard. I played a few matches with a friend, not very strategic by any means (mostly spam and hope you win), but it was alright. [code]For more Hidden-Gems: http://store.steampowered.com/curator/31294838-Hidden-Gem-Discovery/ [/code]

An 8-bit styled fighting game with 80's low fantasy barbarian tropes draped in gory and sexy pixel art that's gorgeous to look at! The combat system, while simple, is compelling and mostly about anticipating your enemy's next step/stab, as well as to get the right timing and range for your block or attack. A huge bihänder, for example, will miss at close range, while swifty knives will hit. There're no special moves to learn, which makes the game quickly accessible for everyone and potentially a pretty good party game. Due its engine the game unfortunately lacks Steam achievements, what is not a big deal for me. But I think that the arcade mode and its replayability would benefit from at least an offline highscore list. [code][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/39372135][b]Lists of Niche[/b][/url] is dedicated to finding games on Steam with roots in classic consoles, computers and arcade machines. We categorize them in helpful lists that will hopefully grant some insight into gaming's history, too.[/code]

Не покупайте эту игру. У игры есть 1 чёткий плюс это качественный пиксель арт. А всё остальное это минусы: 1) Корявое управление. Для того чтобы к нему приноровиться нужно очень много времени и даже если у вас будет геймпад ситуация сильно лучше не станет. В теории это можно перебороть если бы не 2 минус 2) Поломанная игровая логика. Игру пилили с чётко выраженной ностальгией к игровым автоматам, что очень плохо. По хорошему игроку нужно время и практика для того чтобы приноровиться к механике блокирования, но каждый раз когда тебя убивают начинается мучительно долгая заставка. И ты обнаруживаешь что количество продолжений ограничено. Что конечно очень больно. Мувсет у врагов разный и для того чтобы к ним привыкнуть нужно время, но у вас будет чёткий соблазн просто их зарашить и у вас получится! Но после начинаются боссы с абсолютно другой механикой и если вы привыкли к рашу, то нужно опять себя переламывать. И весь фан от игру уходит в этот момент. Починить 2 минус можно легко. Просто добавить выбор сложности. Нормальный в котором у вас бесконечное количество прохождений без лишних заморочек с продолжениями и сложный в котором была бы реализована текущая механика. Но авторам видать не хочется думать об удобстве игроков.

So far I've had a great time playing this game - with keyboard controls! Let me explain. I'm currently travelling and wanted to play a game with keyboard support - carrying an xbox controller around is kind of a pain. As a fan of old-school, 80's style retro fighting games, I saw Blades of Gory had just been released - with keyboard support. Perfect! As far as the game itself goes, it's a fun arcade style throwback. It's for those who remember those days when games were just games and you'd put in a coin for a few minutes (with my skill level!) of action. Pro's ------- - Arcade mode is great, especially when you get to the boss fights! - 3 v 3 couch-coop mode like Marvel vs Capcom! - Well executed pixel, a pleasure to see Con's ------- - Can be quite challenging, which can be a good thing! - still a little buggy Overall I would recommend this little gem of a game if you like your fighters old school and don't mind a challenge!

I love this game! The polish and little details really give it a charm that makes you want to replay it over and over. The mechanics of the game itself are similar to fighting genre games that reward footsies/neutral play. You should also understand that this game is DIFFICULT. The bosses take different strategies to defeat and you have to think about how you're going to approach it or you WILL die. This is also a great game if you're into speedrunning! It has a good run time for a speedrun and lots of interesting visuals for the viewer. Getting the mechanics of the fights down feels very rewarding in the context of a speedrun. There are some speedruns on youtube that you can check out if you're interested. Overall I would rate this game a solid 8/10. 100% worth your money!

Huge input lag and frame drop when playing at 1440p. Game has potential tho, the neutral is fun.

Have you ever played a game of Smash Bros against a friend and you both have one stock left? You dodge his attack, he blocks yours, you jump overhead to strike from the skies and he rolls to the left? After what seems like hours of this chess match one of you finally land the game winning side smash? Well that's what this game is. It's fast paced, requires proper attention, and is fun! The controls are pretty easy to learn but the true skill is in knowing what move is coming. It may take a little while to catch on due to different characters having different angles of attack but after a couple of hours of playing this game you should be well on your way to losing to the final(?) boss.

a bit overpriced

advantage: 1. there is no such game in the piracy market; 2. the UI interface and operation are very user-friendly, excluding the default keyboard operation of the characters; 3. art characters is beautiful, its a cool art style! disadvantages: 1. the default keyboard setting is very anti-human. AS is move, QW is taunt, DFG is attack, and ERT is block of DFG attack. My hands are large, and it is hard to control "QWERT-ASDFG" at all; (Especially taunt, once I do this action, I will be killed by Ai quickly. To be honest, I am far away from AI!) 2. two person in fight are limited to use the same keyboard, and it can't put down four palms ✋✋✋✋； 3. the game does not have a simple-medium-difficult difficulty setting, and there exists delay in the operation during playing game. Sometimes the skill are too slow to beat AI;

Esta fué una difícil decisión, decidí no recomendarlo al final pero vaya que es un gran juego que necesita rebalancearse, pero sobre todo, eliminar los bugs que aun se presentan (razon por la cual solicité reembolso) Una lástima, pues el juego a pesar de ser casi imposible de pasar (el Boss final esta estúpidamente difícil) pero podria decirse que prcticando horas, durante días, podrias algun día derrotarlo con quiza un par de personajes que tienen mayor alcance en su ataque. Siempre me han gustado los juegos de gran reto, dificultad, pero el problema con este juego es que además delo que ya mencioné, tiene unos bugs que rompen tu voluntad, tu mente y probablemente algo más. por un lado el arte de pixeles usado para el juego es fantástico, un juego así en la época del NES hubiera sido increible, el estilo de pelea y la idea de poder bloquear cada tipo de ataque (3 en total) con su respectivo bloqueo asi como poder esquivarmediante un movimiento usando una combinacion de botones es una gran idea para crear un juego diferente de combate (peleas). Excelentes personajes, con simpáticas animaciones y un finisher al terminar cada pelea si logras conectar cierto ataque a tu rival antes que tu personaje festeje su triunfo. Una vez que aprendes lo básico del juego ya no eres derrotado en dos segundos, y comprendes que hay bonificacion si ganas los 2 rounds seguidos (+1vida o continue extra, son muy importantes pues son limitados) así como si ganas en PERFECT, obtienes +1 vida extra, (se suman si ademas ganas ambos rounds, dando un total de +2 vidas en un mismo combate) Lo terrible viene a continuación (bugs): Como ya comenté, me gustan los juegos dificiles (algunos jugadores mas actuales los llaman "para masoquistas", esto es muy debatible, quizá no jugaron suficientes en consolas de 1984-1994), pero el gran problema esta fuera de tus manos, pasan por lo menos estas dos situaciones: 1-De manera aleatoria, desaparece tu rival, subitamente, y no hay nada que puedas hacer, quedas vagando a solas en el escenario sin mas por hacer que salir del juego... obviamente perdiendo todo el avance, tus vidas y quiza las ganas de volver a jugar. 2-increiblemente, en alguna pelea de manera muy aleatoria, el juego se ralentiza un poco (increible pero me paso en una máquina bastante poderosa como para que suceda, aqui juego sin problema Conan Exiles y otros) y esto no ayuda nada a un juego tan estrictamente dificil en donde un micro error de precision y de reflejos te cuesta la vida. Dada esta situación, tuve que decidir no recomendarlo, si en un futuro corrigen esto y publican un demo para probar que ya no ocurre esto y además hagan un rebalance de algunos personajes para que no sea tan dificil ganar con ellos, lo volvería a comprar. Fortcullis Games: Hicieron un gran juego, no lo dejen morir de esta manera.