Rings of Hell

Not really in my genre but it's free, unique and ticks lots of my fetish boxes so have a recommend.

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Not looking much at the store page I was under the impression Ring of Fire was an action brawler. Imagine my surprise when it turned out to be a turn-based RPG. Well, I think the latter part airs on the weak side because I don't think balancing is established or enforced that well. Story-wise we're working well within wacky territory as two rival wrestlers finally push it too far in the ring, headbutt one another and find themselves in Hell. Not any variety mind you, Wrestling Hell with Wrestling Satan to go along as she challenges the two girls, now transformed into blue and red demon respectively, to see if they can work their way through the wrestling scene and earn their freedom. It's about as comical as you imagine with imps being the local audience and two leads having to put aside their differences to tackle their rivals. Or really, that would be the case if there was more to do the game rather than dealing with one lackey and tons of mooks in samey fights. Still, I rather enjoyed that everyone gives you cheek and you bounce right back with dialog choices in two flavors; sarcastic blue or fiery red. I touched somewhat on the gameplay department in the opening. This is on me, but I took good thirty minutes to realize I can actually choose which four moves my characters can equip and that was only after I started getting my ass kicked towards the end. This isn't on the game, I just wanted to point things aren't clearly conveyed to the player. This carries onto progression where you can grind teeth, serving as Hell currency, to buy some moves and equipment. Your special moves run on HYPE which is in turn generated by your basic attacks or with Megaphone item on ATB basis Final Fantasy fans will find familiar. Except in circles. This becomes a problem as dome moves have higher costs and you assume, due to naming conventions, that they're improvements over those older moves so you find yourself starved for HYPE and relying on meager basic damage. On the flipside, Pin is the great equalizing maneuver lettin you take out enemies after some button mashing based on their remaining health. Upon its discovery it was smooth sailing to the final boss. Taking into account we're talking about a free game here take everything I say with a grain of salt. Solid effort with drawbacks primarily concerning performances, game dipped to low framerate in couple of consistent scenes, and lack of clear power progression. Bite-sized and enjoyable with pleasant visuals. Oddly enough, controls are worth pointing out as for some reason each character has its own controls. One uses WASD while other relies on arrow buttons. Why?