VanillaBeast: Retro Knock-Out!

what I expected: a revival similar to punchout which was fun, polished, and had tons of likeable characters. what I got: a game with lagged buggy delayed controls, terrible story, unlikeable characters, and a game just trying to be shocking with adult content.

Gameplay de jogo horrível! Stamina baseada em corações, se você toma dano perde 1 coração, se você erra esquiva ou bloqueio na hora errada perde coração, se o cara defende seu golpe você perde um coração. E quando você perde tudo fica impossibilitado de atacar, ai você só pode esquivar, ai ganha 1 coração somente, ai o cara defende seu ataque e você fica impossibilitado de atacar novamente. No Punch out você esquiva e ganha 9 corações e não ficava sendo extremamente punido ao sair da exaustão. E sem contar que voce perde o PP carregado ao ser atingido. Esse jogo tem a pior gameplay to tipo de gênero de boxing.

Amazing game, from an amazing developer....its got everything you want....hard boss fights, sexy ladies, and lots of fun!

I have really enjoyed my time with retro knock-out so far. Theres actual technical substance to the gameplay here to go along side the beautiful pixel art. If you are the kind of masochist addicted to the rush of conquering a brutal challenge after getting your ass kicked over and over, you will like this game. Retro Knock-Out!'s most obvious inspiration is punch-out, but it does a really good job of evolving the formula in its own way instead of being another shallow imitation. This game is more similar to NES punchout than super punchout, and as a mainly super punchout player I had a hard time getting used to the differences at first. First off, you will be punished for actively wasting movements. If you spam ineffective dodges and attacks you will deplete stamina. This makes you be more intentional with your movements but also rely more on blocking and its relatively nuanced risk-reward system. The enemies tells have so far been relatively well executed, and getting a series of Power Punches to wombo combo your opponent feels really good. If you time the button mashes of one-twos right they get really fast. I like how the devs were commited to making the gameplay a bit more accurate to real world prize fight boxing. The 5-7 round system, the judge scoring, and the strategy of landing many body blows in early rounds to do more damage later. All these things help the game stand out as its own thing and not just a NES punch-out clone. The adult themed story, humor, and art style are a breath of fresh air to me, theres a lot of personality in the raunchy world of Retro Knock-Out. Considering how many fighters there are and how long it took for me to beat a few I would say this game has 10-20 hours worth of gameplay for the true fans of the genre willing to grind through the fights. Some minor issues I have with this game: The biggest design issue for me is the fighter skipping system. You can choose to skip the contender ranked right above you and go to the contender 2 ranks above. This by itself is an okay system its cool for the people who want to get through the game quick and maybe skip a tough fight they cant get down. BUUT if you choose to skip a fight, you are permanently locked out of it for the rest of the game. I can understand why this is from a real world prize fighting perspective, but from the perspective of a video game player its really upsetting learning that you are permanently locked out of a fight because you didn't understand how the system works and accidentally skipped it. I dont think the game tells you about the skipping mechanic with text either. I would really like to be able to go back to the skipped fights through the computer, If not unlocking after beating the next ranked contender then maybe have them unlock in the computer after you beat each circuit as a reward? Either way I don't feel I should have to beat the entire game or delete my save data just to experience the accidentally skipped fake paul fight. Its baffling that this is an intentional design decision and not an oversight and one of the few ways that commiting to the "like real-world boxing!" bit hurts the actual game. The minigames before each fight are a miss for me. I would like an option in the settings to just turn them off and start each fight at 100% health. I know you can "go to a party" and get some random health percentage to skip the minigame but starting the fight with 50-60% health is a pretty big disadvantage. When on the fighter selection screen you can't go back to the apartment. If for some reason you wanted to back out of the game from this point you need to start up a fight, pause, then hit quit. letting the player back out of the fight selection screen back into the apartment would be a nice little QoL thing. The apartment is a little barren in terms of stuff to do. It would be nice to be able to interact with some of vanillas things. Turn on a faucet, use the toilet, cover up a babe in bed Anything to add a bit more life into it. Maybe some fighters down the line will move a bit more, but from what I have seen all the fighters will stand in the middle of the ring. It would be nice to see them hop and move around the ring a bit more as part of their attack patterns. I understand that in real world boxing you can't do crazy martial arts jumping summer saults like some fighters in super punch out but a little bit of foot works would go a long way. Its a shame that this game didn't see more attention, clearly a lot of love and passion went into this project and I will be on the lookout for other VanillaBeast games. Please consider uploading the soundtrack somewhere I love a lot the tunes. Thanks for the fun experience.

It's a good game just very frustrating

I bought this game hoping for a "Mike Tyson's Punch Out" from when I was a child as the videos and ads for this game clearly show this. However, the controls are not nearly as aligned with the hoped game as well as the very first character you fight - the 'training' fight - failed so hard and was far too difficult to beat. I regret buying this game and I'm uninstalling it at this time.

Terrible gameplay. Timing is totally off and not fun to play. There were even hard to control if I wanted a high or low punch. Just terrible. I just managed one match then needed to close the game. But Ilike the graphics.

Punch Out... but with hookers and booze between fights. Very fun game, but quite difficult. Seems like my fighter is always turning purple from exhaustion. Lil Mac seemed to have more endurance. Maybe because he wasn't up all night drinking at the strip clubs. Timing for hits and dodges takes some practice, but it's fun once you get the hang of it.

If you like punch-out Youll love this game!

Unimpressed. The search for a good Punchout inspired game continues. Shifting my gaze over to Big Boy Boxing.