Caltrops - Mischief Maker's Maker's Mark - Forget about Shadow Warrior and that dumb viking game

Forum Overview :: Mischief Maker's Maker's Mark

by fabio 10/06/2013, 12:53pm PDT

One Finger Death Punch is the hottest indie game out right now.

I lost an entire afternoon playing this. It's a brawler with no walking, just 2 buttons. Each button punches to one side. That's it.

The addictiveness comes in the sheer variety and tempo you get going. Some enemies will dodge side to side, some initiate a quick time 1on1 fight, and you're always picking up weapons to slice them in half or deflecting knives or catching knives and throwing them back. There is never more than 5 seconds where a conveniently placed fruit cart pops up to hurl enemies into.

I'm thinking it almost outdoes Arkham Asylum for best mass melee combat! I guess this is what fighting games feel like to high end players willing to invest the 500 hour homework assignment of mastering animation interrupts and hit detection or whatever the boring.

+ Really captures the Jackie Chan feel of taking on armies of thugs at once with improvised props. Also the closest we've gotten to recreating the Agent Smiths fight in a game.
+ Only 99 cents.
+ Addictive Mortal Kombat Konquest mode where you go around unlocking skills
+ Loading screen progress is measured in kung fu movie formula (first training failure, overconfidence, certain defeat, flash back to training montage, comeback, finishing blow).
- Xbox Live, and if you want to get it on PC, the only way right now is to download and purchase it through
- While they're fun, I'm starting to think the greatest enemy in the game are weapon drops. At high fast levels, so much depends on eyeballing exactly how many clicks each side will take to defeat, and a dropped weapon stops you in your tracks, adding another click. It's easy to miss the white weapons blending in and it throws you off.