6/12/2023 0 Comments Kung fury street rage red ninjasThis would be perfect for an ’80s style beat ’em up arcade game like Double Dragon or Streets of Rage. Robots, Vikings, Nazis, Dinosaurs and Kung Fu are ingredients that are begging for Kung Fury to be adapted into a video game. But this is fine since this gives context to throw in Vikings and dinosaurs into the showdown against the Nazi regime. Unfortunately, using 1980’s computer hacking techniques do awry and Kung Fury ends up going too far back in time. Expressing an opinion on the internet these days is bound to start a fight, but we can all agree that Hitler sucks and traveling back in time to end the Third Reich is a good idea. Kung Führer, ends up causing trouble in Florida so Kung Fury decides to travel back in time to kill Hitler. During a deadly confrontation with a ninja in a back alley, Kung Fury’s partner is sliced in half, but a convenient series of unfortunate events unlock his true Kung Fu powers, signifying he is the chosen one. Kung Fury is the name of the protagonist, a detective with the Miami-Dade Police Department. People who watch Kung Fury tend to have two different reactions: this is the stupidest thing they’ve ever seen or it’s the greatest film ever made where each part is better than the last. It was released on YouTube and other streaming platforms where it can still be viewed for free. It has a relatively modest budget as far as movies go which was funded through Kickstarter support and is an homage and parody of martial arts movies and ’80s cop films. Kung Fury is a 2015 film that runs approximately 30 minutes in length. We even have a beige computer with a floppy disk drive. All the classic systems are down there collecting dust, so in an effort to improve the cleanliness of our work space, we dust off these old consoles every so often and put an old game through its paces, just to make sure everything stays in working order. The basement at the Hardcore Gamer office has a section known as the Crust Room, with an old grey couch and a big old CRT TV. At least this can sort of be excused by the game’s low asking price (only $2), but it still hurts replayability.Member the games you used to play? We member. Where One Finger Death Punch had items or extra modes, Kung Fury: Street Rage has nothing other than a single survival mode. It’s almost a little too simple: there’s no variation on the basic gameplay outside of enemies that may switch lanes or take multiple attacks. This means there’s no movement of any kind, instead I just attack to either the left or right and hit whoever is in range. Also I can’t help but feel slightly slighted that Hackerman, Barbarianna, and Triceracop are hanging out in the background but aren’t playable.Īs I mentioned before, Kung Fury: Street Rage is heavily inspired by One Finger Death Punch. Some very simple presentation errors make this game difficult to play. One Finger Death Punch also made it so enemies could only attack one on each side, making it obvious who my attacks were aimed for, yet Kung Fury: Street Rage allows enemies to gang up on me and made it difficult to tell who Kung Fury was going to attack next. Lacking this, I often found myself missing enemies in Kung Fury: Street Rage, and having to guess where Kung Fury’s strikes would actually land. One Finger Death Punch (which Kung Fury: Street Rage is heavily based off of) has bars on the bottom of the stage that clearly show where I was able to attack. Yet where the presentation fails is in its lack of making it clear where Kung Fury can attack. Along with that, the game features sprites that I would expect to see on an SNES or Sega Genesis console, and easily remind me of other beat ’em ups like Streets of Rage. For starters, the whole game looks like its being played on a CRT arcade monitor. The love for the 80’s is really obvious with Kung Fury: Street Rage.
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