Dojo Assault

Quick Moneymaking Release May 2023 Removal September 2023

Works outta the box on Steam Deck. The game is sick but it could use some work. It takes forever to start the game once you're on the main menu, it will seem like it's frozen even though it's not for a hot minute. Needs mappable controls internally for desktop users because you won't know that there's 4 actions outside of basic movement if you don't just press every button. There needs to be a leaderboard of some sort too because it makes getting a high score pointless if it doesn't even save anywhere. Not having some feature like that kinda defeats the purpose of an arcade styled game. Also the kunais flying at lightspeed from off screen is really annoying, you can block it but the hit detection is kinda weird so you'll just die half the time even when you do react to it, and even more so if there's multiple kunai flying at you at the same time. That leads to another point, sometimes you think you killed an enemy only to hear the death sound and seeing your guy being killed instead, there needs to be a better indicator of when you're in striking range for yourself and the enemies because some deaths just feel like BS for that reason considering you die in one hit. A tutorial because how is the score caluclated? Time or kills? Both? Adding maybe some sort of enemy variety outside of the basic clone would be cool too, The graphics are good and it has a unique art style so adding onto this with more stuff would be great and a no brainer. There doesn't really need to be much added to the game because it's a pretty solid base to start from the game has potential and it's entertaining for being only 1 dollar. I'm surprised I'm the first review because it's actually pretty fun. If it does get updated and optimized more I can see the game blowing up because it's addictive chaining your kills together when you get swarmed or line enemies up. Hopping in for a quick bloodbath is something I can go for any day.