After seeing a few of the videos, the art style had turned me off as well as people branding it with the term “Battle Royale” I planned on just avoiding this title. It seemed a bit too bright and well, honestly everyone has been throwing BR’s without any thought at the wall to see what sticks. I finally ended up giving it a try.
One of the key things about this game that nobody is talking about is it performs like a platformer, the kind we had when the N64 first came out with that nice transition for most of the Nintendo titles at least going from 2d to 3d. It does take skill to get through the game and it’s not like some of the indie games out there where you have only pseudo control of your character. If you like the challenge of platformers, give this a try. The environment with the ‘beans’ being your characters and bright colors actually is tastefully done, when playing you’ll notice small shadings and details where everything isn’t just a layout of boxes to save on the poly counts.
There is an element of RNG to the game, but most of that comes with the players and most obstacles can be avoided or timed to give you the best speed run winning the race, when it’s a race. Most videos I saw were of 1 or 2 race type maps, but there are team games in the tournament as well as a memory type game.
The Sounds in the game are spot on and so is the soundtrack. I was pleasantly surprised by this as it as it ties in the whole package of the games experience. It’s a solid game and most importantly it is actually really fun and with that while you may rage out or go on tilt, you only seem to go on about it until the next match starts. The atmosphere the game creates is Fun first and then Competitive which allows you to grind out multiple matches chasing that ever elusive crown at the end like it’s nothing and never wearing you out.
Finally, this game supports M&K + Controllers, but this is one of those rare instances that I’m going to tell you to take the controller route.