This game is good. There, I said it. Review over. Nothing else to see here, really.
That segues into my main problem with this game. There is not enough here to hold my interest long term. A few of the scenes were nice, most were just rinse and repeat past the first. I want to compare this game to something like the very old school NES punch-out!! and I think this game pays homage to that fantastically well.
Maybe at the end of it all, I am simply conflicted. This was a far above average reskinning of the classic boxing game. On the other hand it felt overly simplistic for what the game could have been.
In the nes game, opponents get more difficult as you develop and hone skills from one opponent to the next. I can remember the sense of accomplishment when I finally beat soda popinski for the first time since for whatever reason I could not beat him for years. Mind you I was also at the time maybe 8 years old. (yeah im that old.. oof)
In this game there is seemingly only a self imposed difficulty curve. You either play it straight and the game is extremely easy, or you play with handicaps that make the game extraordinarily hard for either a short time or the whole fight thereafter.
The graphics are good, the sound is decent, and the story is a thing I guess. If I summed up all the parts, I think I end up with a very lacking composite score. However, I have been looking for a long time for a decent boxing game and I think this is a good replacement for something that I want to play for 5-10 minutes at a time.
I want more, and what I got was decent enough given that there is almost zero competition in this space. There is definitely room for improvement, as I think there is more to explore here. That said, this offering is certainly passable for how negative I took to the individual parts. The whole game is definitely a far greater offering than the sum of it's individual parts here.
That segues into my main problem with this game. There is not enough here to hold my interest long term. A few of the scenes were nice, most were just rinse and repeat past the first. I want to compare this game to something like the very old school NES punch-out!! and I think this game pays homage to that fantastically well.
Maybe at the end of it all, I am simply conflicted. This was a far above average reskinning of the classic boxing game. On the other hand it felt overly simplistic for what the game could have been.
In the nes game, opponents get more difficult as you develop and hone skills from one opponent to the next. I can remember the sense of accomplishment when I finally beat soda popinski for the first time since for whatever reason I could not beat him for years. Mind you I was also at the time maybe 8 years old. (yeah im that old.. oof)
In this game there is seemingly only a self imposed difficulty curve. You either play it straight and the game is extremely easy, or you play with handicaps that make the game extraordinarily hard for either a short time or the whole fight thereafter.
The graphics are good, the sound is decent, and the story is a thing I guess. If I summed up all the parts, I think I end up with a very lacking composite score. However, I have been looking for a long time for a decent boxing game and I think this is a good replacement for something that I want to play for 5-10 minutes at a time.
I want more, and what I got was decent enough given that there is almost zero competition in this space. There is definitely room for improvement, as I think there is more to explore here. That said, this offering is certainly passable for how negative I took to the individual parts. The whole game is definitely a far greater offering than the sum of it's individual parts here.