The Way of the Pixelated Fist

[h1]A David Lynch’s fragmented nightmare full of Kung-Fu poetry, constructed via the sampling of past retro-masterworks. Mixing [i][b]Prince of Persia[/b][/i] with [i][b]Mirror’s Edge[/b][/i], a Sega’s Master System color palette with NES tight controls, [i][b]Another World[/b][/i]’s influences with [i][b]Yie Ar Kung-Fu[/b][/i], a Radiohead inspired soundtrack with Bruce Lee’s awesomeness. A raised in the 80s kid’s warm dream that confirms Larry Stover as one of the most distinctive creators in the indie scene since Nicklas Nygren alias [i][b]“Nifflas”[/b][/i][/h1] If [i]The Way of the Pixelated Fist[/i] would have been published in the early 90s, it would have become one of my favorite games as a child. With its wise combination of frames extracted from 80’s hallucinatory martial arts movies, mixed with all the elements that made me love videogames. Its creator Larry Stover works with the same philosophy as a DJ, using a sampler structure to create remixes of old b...

Played for 3 minutes, encountered a gamebreaking bug, restarted, played for 3 minutes, bugged out again. Don't buy this pls!

There is potential here, and the developer clearly had a vision for the game. Unfortunately, "cinematics" and "platformer" don't seem to be a good couple. Half the time you can't see where you're going or what you're jumping to next. There is incredibly limited UI and half the time you're wondering what button does what or if a ledge is even grab-able. Trust me, it sucks when you think you've jumped in the right place, only to fall to the city streets below. Plus, your character seems to get stuck... all... the... time. In just a 10 minute play through, I probably got stuck 4 times. Generally, to escape this invisible prison, you have to fall to your death. Thankfully, the game is relatively fast paced and checkpoints are frequent so you don't have to restart all the way at the beginning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQZcHGYVBTM In closing, I want to recommend this game because I feel like the lone wolf who built this game actually put time and effort thinking it would pay off in t...

Short but sweet ninja platformer with a retro vibe. It's not great, and it's not bad, but it is a buck so yeah it's worth the dollar for a couple hours of fun. :-)

[strike] This game has potential but I can't recommend it until all of the obvious bugs are fixed. The player frequently gets stuck on walls and stuff, then you have to restart the stage (back button on 360 controller). This happened to me a dozen times in the 5 minutes that I played. I quit after I jumped and flew into the sky.[/strike] FIXED and I'm loving it. Combat is decent. Reminds me of Kung Fu on the NES, but without jumping. It's fun to wail on people and I've even gotten my ass handed to me once so far. The parkour platforming is fun and controls well. It's kind of like the original Prince of Persia but more fluid. Some of the obstacles feel like Super Meat Boy in that I died many many times before getting the rhythm down. The sound effects and music are appropriate and enjoyable.

Fun little game. Most of the negative reviews were based on a earlier, bugged version of the game. The previous problems have since been hammered out. If you're a fan of 8-bit style beat-em up games mixed with a dash of platformer (a really unique type of platformer that is almost parkour like), you'll enjoy Way of the Pixelated Fist.

"The Way of the Pixelated Fist" is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. This badly made GameMaker Studio template job is a craptastic pixeltrash platformer with a loose martial arts theme featuring a lot of hack and slash as well as your usual wall jumping, double jumping, hazard avoiding, and there's a minor "adventure" game element. None of these individual factors is implemented remotely well. It's the third of these from this developer and they're all practically the same game, the developer is just copying + pasting the same template, changing a few things around and pretending it's an entirely new game. This kind of self-asset-flipping is just about as harmful to gamers as real asset flipping... multiple copy + pastes of one bad game is a lot worse than just one of them. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expec...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIO8F6cbhNw fuck this game. COMBAT JUST KEEPS GETTING WORSE I've played it for over 7 hours and I've come up with tree good things to say about it, the movement system is the perfect balance of realism and platforming, even interacting with other vertical walls and "third" walls. The animations are so much better, actually fluid and yet quick at the same time. the soundtrack is really a step up too... 3 things that are nice when the game is about platforming... so to the rest of it remember the first games where fighting was very simple, but actually fun? remember the last game where combat was pretty much do anything to the red guys, keep the blue guys at a distance, and mash and mash and mash against the ones that looked like underground fight club Rambo? well now its even worse. i dont know how this dev does it, WITH EACH GAME THE COMBAT JUST KEEPS GETTING WORSE. he struck gold with the combat in the first one: punchy, easy to use hard to master...

This game is awesome and worth a shot. The controls are good. The animation is fine. The difficulty is balanced. The price is cheap. The fun is guaranteed. A retro-classic-look-like game which i find myself enjoying till the end. You can check this video too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4ecuw1Ekp0&list=PL1yqWiFvAHOuwQNzdERQUNc-ZVtcfvW5Z

First, the nice things: the game has vision and I really really like where it's going. Music and visuals feel good, and I am happy to have paid a couple of quid for it. The problem is: it has bugs: I got stuck into walls and sometimes the camera crops the wrong part of the screen (headless enemies). None of these are really bad, however the game could have been received better if those had been fixed before release. What I would recommend to the dev is to mark it as "early access" until those issues are fixed. Meanwhile I will leave the game there and try it again in a week or so to see if the issues have been addressed. I really like the game idea and I think there is potential to expand on it. I'd recommend to buy it anyway if you like the vibe as it costs less than a coffee.