Okinawa Rush

Warning! If you buy this game to play couch co-op, know that it's full of bugs and completely broken. The second player will teleport constantly off screen, be locked into place, won't be able to perform certain actions, or lose all health for no reason. The single player experience works fine as far as I got but I was discouraged to continue as I bought this to play with a friend.

Visuals and sound are on point. Everything relating to gameplay, however, is completely sloppy. A dozen spazzing enemies will be layered on top of each other which often makes parrying a crapshoot. Enemies can instantly transition from hitstun to being right in the middle of a deadly attack. Doing an attack yourself might make you face backward for some reason. You may find yourself grabbing open air because, let alone the player, the game's code can't even make sense of the chaos with enemies and yourself shifting and teleporting without warning. Most of the special inputs I could do consistently, but weirdly the simple Red Red Green double punch thing was a 50/50. Nothing feels like it moves as it should. Nothing seems to be getting hit quite like it should. It's like you're fighting against nonstop laggy rollback with 50 dudes at once. Other than the sax on stage 3, I can't describe any aspect of this game as smooth.

[h3][b]ー『良い色物ゲーは好きですか？』ー[/b][/h3] このゲームはとにかく遊びやすい。 気持ちいいＳＥと演出で敵をボコボコに出来るし、コマンドも前＋攻撃などのシンプルなものが多いのでガチャ押しで十分暴れまわれるし、クリアまで出来る。グラフィックはヌルヌル動くし背景もめちゃくちゃ描き込まれている。洋ゲー特有のグロは人を選ぶ要素だが、敵は一度倒せば復活しないし、ボスのライフすら戻らない。残機がなくなってコンテニューをしたら復活します。難易度は７段階あって、中間の難易度ならだれでもクリア出来るだろう。そのくらい遊びやすい。 そしてゲームタイトルから十分伝わると思うが、海外から見た日本、海外から見た沖縄である。昼間に真っ白な恰好のニンジャが正面から戦いに来るし、サムライも当然出てきます。ちなみに現代日本です多分。敵に捕まっている村人が髷を結った白塗りの女性だったり、登場人物は大体お辞儀をします。主人公は３人いて、その内の一人のヒロは大師匠だし、空手の形を練習すると何故かお金が貰えます。これが沖縄です。 しかし、ストーリーは良く分からないし、分からせるつもりもない。プレイヤーの動きが速すぎるせいで画面遷移はおかしくなるし、エフェクト過多のところもある。そしてこのゲームはマルチエンディングなのだが、ゲーム進行によってはエンディングが回収できない不具合？と言っていい問題まである。 更にはエンディングのフラグが高難易度で、筆者にはヒントすら見つけられなかったくらい難しい。私は諦めて攻略を見ました。海外の攻略サイトしか見つけられなかったので、動画でエンディングの達成方法を紹介しています。 良くない点は確かにあるが、ゲーム自体は面白い。オブジェクトを使って敵をまとめて倒したり、武器を活用して硬い敵を倒したり、ゲームを理解すればするほど楽しめるだろう。特に難易度「黒帯」や「アーケードモード」は残機が無く、制限時間があるのでゲームの理解度が攻略や面白さに直結すると思う。 見たまんま、色物ゲーなのは間違いないが、ゲーム部分はかなり頑張って作ってある「良い色物ゲー」なので、癖の強いゲームが好きな方にはぜひ遊んでもらいたい一品です。 [h3][b]【レビュー評価　6/10】[/b][/h3] [table] [tr] [th]ストーリー[/th] [th]2[/th] [/tr] [tr] [td]エンディングの仕様[/td] [td]2[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]遊びやすさ[/td] [td]8[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]色物ゲー[/td] [td]7[/td] [/tr] [/table] [h3][b]【レビュー動画（ずんだもん＆中部つるぎ）】[/b][/h3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIs1cIRVkW0

Nice pixel graphics and good soundtrack, but the controls feel off. Character is so floaty. Minor glitches in gameplay, but menus feel unintuitive and glitchy, especially in the dojo. Repeating the levels over and over to get the different endings is pretty tedious.

※初心者はまずストーリーモードを選択して下さい。アーケードモードはクリア者向けの高難易度モードです。 もし格闘ゲームの操作感で2Dアクションゲームができたとしたら？ さらにメトロイドヴァニア要素も足してしまえ。 これはそんなゲームです。 タイトルに沖縄とありますが、名作映画『ベストキッド2』的な沖縄描写です。 この時点で好きな人は好きだと思います。 ノーマル(緑帯)の難易度はそこまで高くないので、アクションが苦手でも問題ありません。 （パリィの操作を覚えるまで少し時間がかかるかもしれませんが） 空手(+カンフー)VS忍者軍団の一対多数の爽快バトルゲームです。 ウィンドウモードの問題は、”設定→セットアップ→スクリーン設定”で直ります。 毎回するのは大変ですが……（なんとか修正してもらいたいです）

Theres a ton of effort put into this and I want to love it but the controls just feel too loose to me to bother putting in the time for higher difficulty

I like this game. I really, really like it. But ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ if it isn't hard. Thankfully it does it a fun way that while frustrating at times, still makes you want to learn to be better and to get to the end. I've mostly played the story mode, which does allow you change the difficulty, but to those who really want to challenge themselves there's the Arcade mode which - from what I've learnt - is supposed to be the HARD-mode. But I must stress, this genuinely hard. So be aware of this. Game Play - the game play mechanics in this game are superb in my opinion - for a game of this genre, which is platforming beat'em up with a lot (and I do mean a lot) of depth. I've yet to come across game of this type which would have had more than half of the depth this game has in terms of game play, but I'd be delighted if someone could point out some for me if they happen to read this review. The fighting in this game is unbelievably satisfying. Parrying, which seems to be the most important mechanic in this game, allows you to deliver some really wonderfully visceral take-downs against your enemies and some of the weapons - the sword especially - can make your opposition to fall into pieces in rather creative ways. But worry not, if you happen to be one of those queasy types, you can turn off the blood if you so wish. You have variety of normal and special moves in this game, and I highly recommend you go into the story mode and use the dojo to familiarize yourself with them before venturing forward. Music - oh the music. In addition to the graphics, this game really hits down hard when it comes to people like me who were born in the early '80s and had the opportunity to put hours upon hours into playing our Amiga 500 games. Yes, while similar to what we used to hear in the time period where Amiga reigned supreme, the music in this game has its clearly modern spin on it - which, again, is question of taste on whether or not you will like it. I did, so I give my thumbs up for it! Sound & Voice acting - the sounds in this game are straight from the Amiga era and I love it! The dialogues in this game are at par with your '80s action flicks from Hollywood, with wonderfully cheesy voice acting - especially the bosses. I love how snooty and almost British the first ninja-boss you meet sounds like - I really had a laughing out loud moment there. Story - Not much to say here, as I've yet to complete the game (as of writing this piece), but from what I've seen so far, the story does seem to be your typical revenge plot straight from the '80s Hollywood - along with the cheesy one-liners and everything. Even the cut-scenes are somewhat reminiscent to what you used to see in top-tier Amiga games during the platform's golden era of early '90s. All in all, I heartily recommend this game to anyone who is looking for a challenging platforming beat'em up - they don't get much better than this. And to anyone reading this, if you buy this game, please leave a review for it - this game needs more publicity. The only reason I happened to discover this game was because YouTube algorithm decided to randomly put a video about this game into my recommendations list - and this was well over a year after the game was released!

[h1] Так гениально проработать игру по всем фронтам и обосраться в кооперативе [/h1] Это великолепный битэмап! Но я засpу его, потому что меня он расстроил своим отношением к игре вдвоём. Мало в каком проекте подобного жанра можно найти сюжет, который будет интересно интегрирован с нарративной точки зрения и аутентично подан. Мало в каком проекте такая потрясающая стилизация под ретро, 10+ уровней сложности и шикарная комбо система с изумительным саундтреком. В игре несколько концовок, три уникальных персонажа и дополнительные приквел-сцены со своим геймплеем. Два режима: аркада и сюжет. Возможность выбора одного из пяти разблокированных уровней для переигрывания. Игра, очевидно, достойна внимания любителей битэмапов. Но если вы хотите поиграть в кооперативе, то, будьте добры, сходите на xуй. Так сказали мне создатели Okinawa Rush, которые даже на самой низкой сложности дают всего 4 кредита для продолжения с последнего чекпоинта и лишают возможности выбрать любой из разблокированных в коопе уровней. То есть если вы прошли вдвоём 4/5 уровней и слили последние кредиты под конец 5-го, то у вас в коопе нет выбора, кроме как начать, bлядь, заново. При этом в синглплеере можно будет любой из пяти уровней запустить. Так и случилось у меня. Пришлось финал проходить в соло, собрав с десяток допжизней, которые были щедро раскиданы повсюду. А в коопе их нет! Даже на самом низком уровне сложности. Более того, из-за бага на третьем уровне пришлось с нуля игру начать, поскольку в коопе она, как я написал выше, не сохраняется. Мой игровой опыт похерен плохой проработкой игры в кооперативном аспекте. Это единственная её часть, которая хромает. Остальное изумительно! Но вот меня задело, и я не стану идти на уступки

I expected to see beat`em up/platform game, instead I got fighting/platform game. pros: - complex battle system; - secrets; - visuals; - multiple endings/characters. cons: - no learning progression in the game - you need to punch bag in the dojo to learn/train yourself to play the game as everything unlocked from the start; - game menu is too complex. It was like that: I selected arcade mode as I thought there would be less story (don't want to train in dojo to gain strength), soon I found that is too difficult and various spikes one-shot you, it use max difficulty setting. Then I selected story mode - the game started in max difficulty for me and I also struggled a lot, but then I tried to select chapter 1 I found difficulty selection (I don't think I see that screen before). After that I was able to beat the game. I see devs put their soul in the game and it can be a great one. Though progression system is not here, so the game throws everything at you. You can't even put this progression here as the game ends too fast, it's very short. So I don't see any solutions, but maybe this review can be useful for building future games.

Pretty but I wish the controls and gameplay were more fluid.