One Strike

Jogo gostosinho de duelo 1v1, super recomendo !

I bought two games from the developer(One Strike, Two Strikes) and gave him two best reviews. After adding friend on 1.31th.2023, i made some feedback and suggested updating a beautiful art cover of One Strike. One Strike has a ugly art cover which is not completely filled with the cover frame, there shows a large black edge. On weekend, the developer always had some dubious pretext to pretend to update. For example(Friend message): he said he was busy in doing a job when i found he was playing game; or he said he was making dinner but i still found he was playing game. (he said he was doing a job or making dinner, and game shows him playing status) ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, the developer has never told a lie!!! Over a month, today is 2.20th.2023, it has still not been updated.On 3.18th.2023, i had left messages several times, but the developer haven't replied me. Just now, i found that he deleted me and the art cover still have no update. The developer had given an absolute assurance that it would update a beautiful art cover of One Strike, but so far he has not done... Two Strikes is EA Beta-Testing game, i thought he would run away with money according to sincerity and honesty from the developer.

Extremely well balanced samurai Nidhogg. It's an early Neo-Geo demake of Bushido Blade out of time.

So, this was a pleasant surprise. I had it on my wishlist for a while and finally picked it up, and wow. One Strike is a retro style 2D brawler. The graphics are very retro and the soundtrack is an absolutely kicking 16 bit sound one. Fantastic to listen to. The gameplay is simple, yet really deep. All the charaters can move, attack, block, and can either dash or do a unique move. Each character feels very different, which is something not a lot of fighting games can pull off. They each feel distinct. Unfortunately they aren't very balanced. Kenji, is a basic swordsman who is just medicore at everything. Meanwhile you have another character with a ball and chain and ridiiculous range, whose only downside is being unable to block. The games DLC adds additoinal characters that can throw weapons and have wide range attacks and attack much quicker then anyone else, respectively. The balance is defintely off, but it's still fun. The game has four modes, an arcade mode with every charater and five lives each. Which works out to either 35 or 50 fights depending on if you have the DLC. Problem is, there's no continues. So if you get to like fight 30 of 35 and mess up you need to start all over again. There's also a "One Life" mode where you fight everyone one after another in a gauntlet and you die in one hit, and so do they. There's a tournament, which is self explantory. And a team battle mode, where you get 3 fighters to use and face a team of another 3. And a versus mode. So there's a LOT to do here. Given the price, it's absolutely worth picking up. But it's gonna take many strikes before you end up mastering this one.

One of the game's labbel is "casual". That is misleading. While is really easy learning to play, the more you play, the deeper it gets. Play it with a friend, and you will get amazed at how frequently you both will be discovering how to counter this or that unit or technique, that minutes ago seemed unbeatable. That cycle will repeat and repeat until you both will be playing sword duels that will make Kenshin Himura look like a noob. This is a excelent couch game, especially for the price.

Unique game with a pretty fun gameplay idea. It somehow makes it quite fun to play with the one strike mechanic, and each and every character feels different, to the point you will actually have to learn to play the game once again to master the character properly. And be careful, the DLC completely breaks the balance and makes it nearly impossible to complete the game.

шедевр, прошел на все достижения и всех персонажей. Обязательно к прохождению!

bad

Extremely simple, extremely fun. One Strike is the fighting game I keep coming back to, even more than all the modern gorgeous 2D fighters out there.

Sort of plays like Bushido Blade from PS1. Although there's no dismemberment like there was in that game. You get hit once, you die. It's an easy to understand but difficult to master game. You're constantly switching between blocking, attacking, and backing away. One wrong move means death. My one complaint is I wish they're was more content. The DLC adds a few more things but the game still feels really bare bones. I'm hoping they release more content in the future as I liked this game.