FIGHTCRAB! You actually can’t beat that title, each for accuracy and sheer satisfaction worth in shouting it aloud, therefore why I insist it’s capitalized. The newest from oceanically obsessed Japanese indie outfit Nussoft (they of the fairly bonkers Neo Aquarium: The King Of Crustaceans and its sequel, Ace of Seafood), FIGHTCRAB has been within the works for some time now, however yesterday they launched their greatest chunk of gameplay footage but.
Within, CRABS. And they FIGHT. Really, what extra might you ask for?
FIGHTCRAB!
Possibly rather less daft than their earlier video games, however nonetheless charming in its aquatic oddness, FIGHTCRAB seems to be to be primarily a recreation of physics-driven underwater wrestling. Two crustaceans enter, one leaves, their foe embarrassingly up-ended and wobbling round on their again. Oh, and generally the crabs have bloody nice medieval swords, making for a spectacular show of armored violence.
It seems that as with Smash Bros and its many imitators, harm to the enemy causes them to change into lighter and simpler to flip, with crabs at full well being staying stubbornly hooked up to the sand under. Stabbing or bashing with weapons undoubtedly causes harm, however you too can regularly put on your rival down by grabbing onto them along with your massive scary pincers. There are quite a lot of shelled warriors to play as, and plainly there’s a number of weapons too, although I do query the viability of a spiked ball on a series on the backside of the ocean.
FIGHTCRAB will apparently be making its debut at unbiased trade-show Comiket this summer time, August 11th, however my lack of ability to learn Japanese implies that many of the juicy, meaty particulars stay trapped behind a shell of linguistic incompatibility. If any of you effective sea-faring people are capable of decipher the textual content within the video above, by all means share your knowledge within the feedback under.
You can sustain with growth on this and different such silliness on Nussoft’s official site here, and their Twitter feed here.
