Flex these fingers, crack these knuckles, and take a deep breath: One Finger Death Punch 2 is out now and it’ll put your physique, thoughts, and keyboard to the check. The side-on brawler from Silver Dollar Games is deceptively easy, with a stream of baddies charging in the direction of you, one button to assault to your stickman’s left, and one other to strike to the proper. Then the enemy stickmen come quicker and quicker. And with weapons. And boss battles. And sword duels. And combos. And… it will get wild, and a proper lark. Death Punch 2 has a demo so you may expertise that for your self.
The factor is, One Finger Death Punch shouldn’t be a game you may button-mash by way of. It can look easy, with most baddies felled by a single blow, however mastering the timing and assessing the circulation of incoming enemies is significant if you wish to turn out to be a kung fu grasp. Here, see that on this video of Stage 2:
Excuse me, that’s solely the SECOND stage? Ludicrous.
I’m glad to see Silver Dollar Games discover fame and relative fortune with a widely-liked game. They began out making games for the Xbox 360’s Xbox Live Indie Games, releasing a fantastic many curios from comedy relationship information Don’t Be Nervous Talking To Girls to a game about stopping your cat from consuming your breakfast cereal. Silver Dollar have been used a punchline as a result of they launched many scrappy and unconventional games (although I actually did like their vary and weirdness and experimentation and was glad to have them on the market) till 2014’s One Finger Death Punch got here out and was, like, actual good.
XBLIG skilled the phenomenon of self-appointed high quality police lengthy earlier than Steam Greenlight (and particularly the tip of Greenlight) on PC, so we actually ought to’ve all seen that coming. Point is, good on ya, Silver Dollar.
As for what the sequel brings, the launch trailer particulars and demonstrates some additions:
One Finger Death Punch 2 is out now on Steam, with a 25% launch low cost bringing it right down to £4.34/€4.94/$5.99 till Monday the 22nd. The demo is over on that Steam web page too, hidden behind a “Download Demo” button someplace in that cruft on the right-hand facet.
