Just because I didn’t find a Warp Whistle does not, by any means, mean there isn’t one. It has different kinds of enemies who require more or less hits, and they can change up their positions and timing to cause you to need to react faster or slower. Kung Fury (or one of the other characters) doesn’t move at all, and you simply need to time your reactions in striking the baddies as they come into range. The core Street Rage game is a decent, if simple premise, in which you just keep fighting ever advancing waves of Ninja Nazis. With ULTIMATE EDITION, you get two additional game modes, which are sorely needed in order for this to be any sort of enjoyable romp. It serves almost like a sequel, picking up the adventures of Kung Fury, Barbarianna, Hackerman, and Triceracops from where the film ended. Kung Fury: Street Rage is a video game adaptation of sorts. I personally recommend watching Turbo Kid if you want to see a bit more theatrically-lengthed mayhem, and a shockingly good performance from Monroe Chambers (of Degrassi fame). It’s not as if the 80s wave wasn’t already underway and still persists to this day. The movie, which had a successful Kickstarter campaign, became the subject of many a meme and plenty of pop culture saturation…for a minute. It’s a half hour long, it’s on YouTube, and it’s worth watching for several things, most notably Jorma Taccone as a martial arts Hitler and an indisputably amazing song from David Hasselhoff. įor those unaware, Kung Fury is a short film from 2015 that is a massive homage to the movies and aesthetics of the 80s, specifically the more bizarre nature of action films and B-movie moments.
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There are so many questions I have, such as “why?” and “why now?” Playing through this game has answered none of my questions, so now I’m left with three things: a decent review, a curiosity, and a playlist full of synthwave music because you can’t not get into it after a few rounds of Street Rage. At least this can sort of be excused by the game’s low asking price (only $2), but it still hurts replayability.It’s incredibly weird to try and take the temperature of the world around me when something like Kung Fury: Street Rage – ULTIMATE EDITION comes across my desk. 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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