That's the best way to sum it up.
I came across this curious gem today and the first thing I noticed was that you appear to be playing as Rock Howard from Fatal Fury/KoF.
The next thing I noticed was the curious game description:PROMOTION SALE Start! For one week
ENTIRELY NEW GENRE GAEM!
THIS IS AWESOME DEFENCE ACTION GAME!
ENTIRELY NEW GENRE GAEM!
THIS IS AWESOME DEFENCE ACTION GAME!
Despite the horrible engrish I bought the game once I discovered its an old-school style beat-em-up.
By: Sweet Studio
Price: $1.19
While hardly a "NEW GENRE GAEM", it is a very competant beat-em-up. The controls work quite well. There's an attack button, a jump button and three special attacks you can use. Walking around is done by tapping on where or what you want to walk to, double tap to run. Each level consists of beating up a bunch of thugs for a period of time and then fighting a boss, intersped with story cut scenes.
One interesting addition to the gameplay is the presence of Kara, the little girl with blue hair. In an ordinary beat-em-up she would've been kidnapped at the start of the game but here she accompanies Rock Howard in his quest to star in Streets of Rage. Thus she follows you while you fight, and if she gets knocked down three times its game over. This may sound like a nuisance, having to protect the frail-lead-female while being assaulted and assaulting numerous stereotype gangsters and Mr T clones, but she can defend herself with a three-hit-nervous-shove combo which she does not hesitate to use whenever enemies are in range. The result is that in the midst of battle she's very capable of protecting herself, and you only really have to protect her from enemies coming from behind. The enemy AI isn't too difficult anyway.
While you fight thugs, smash crates and generally be a bad enough dude to rescue the president, you earn SP, which you use between stages to upgrade Health, Attack power or your special abilities. You can even upgrade Kara's shove-attack. As with every iPhone action game they throw in a tacky-pseudo-RPG upgrading system which actually ends up being a good thing. The graphics are quite good, with smooth animation and detailed sprites, along with the occasional cute cutscene art.
But the most noticeable thing about the game is the plot. Yes it has a plot, something to do with a necklace and an evil organization and a cloning potion but the story is only told through textboxes with the most hilariously horrendous engrish I've ever witnessed in an iPhone game. I'd almost go as far as to say that the game is worth getting just to see how bad the translation is. Its like they translated all the in-game text with Translation Party.
That said, the game is a competent beat-em-up with good controls and great gameplay. At $1.19 it should satisfy those wanting to bring down Mad Gear as Rock Howard and a little girl, and were dissatisfied with Sega's ports of Golden Axe and Streets of Rage.
I suppose if I were to give it a rating, it'd be 8/10.
By: Sweet Studio
Price: $1.19
While hardly a "NEW GENRE GAEM", it is a very competant beat-em-up. The controls work quite well. There's an attack button, a jump button and three special attacks you can use. Walking around is done by tapping on where or what you want to walk to, double tap to run. Each level consists of beating up a bunch of thugs for a period of time and then fighting a boss, intersped with story cut scenes.
One interesting addition to the gameplay is the presence of Kara, the little girl with blue hair. In an ordinary beat-em-up she would've been kidnapped at the start of the game but here she accompanies Rock Howard in his quest to star in Streets of Rage. Thus she follows you while you fight, and if she gets knocked down three times its game over. This may sound like a nuisance, having to protect the frail-lead-female while being assaulted and assaulting numerous stereotype gangsters and Mr T clones, but she can defend herself with a three-hit-nervous-shove combo which she does not hesitate to use whenever enemies are in range. The result is that in the midst of battle she's very capable of protecting herself, and you only really have to protect her from enemies coming from behind. The enemy AI isn't too difficult anyway.
While you fight thugs, smash crates and generally be a bad enough dude to rescue the president, you earn SP, which you use between stages to upgrade Health, Attack power or your special abilities. You can even upgrade Kara's shove-attack. As with every iPhone action game they throw in a tacky-pseudo-RPG upgrading system which actually ends up being a good thing. The graphics are quite good, with smooth animation and detailed sprites, along with the occasional cute cutscene art.
But the most noticeable thing about the game is the plot. Yes it has a plot, something to do with a necklace and an evil organization and a cloning potion but the story is only told through textboxes with the most hilariously horrendous engrish I've ever witnessed in an iPhone game. I'd almost go as far as to say that the game is worth getting just to see how bad the translation is. Its like they translated all the in-game text with Translation Party.
That said, the game is a competent beat-em-up with good controls and great gameplay. At $1.19 it should satisfy those wanting to bring down Mad Gear as Rock Howard and a little girl, and were dissatisfied with Sega's ports of Golden Axe and Streets of Rage.
I suppose if I were to give it a rating, it'd be 8/10.
Get it here for $1.19
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