What the duck? Pato Box starts off with a lot of charm. Monochrome comic book aesthetics and a player character that is literally a duck head on a boxer. It's beautiful. 5 stars. Then the gameplay starts. Pato box alternates between two styles of gameplay: a boxing game loosely paying homage to Nintendo's Punch-out, and a 3D exploration type mode. The boxing gamemode has potential but comes across as just annoying in practice. Backgrounds are distracting, high-damage moves are poorly telegraphed and often require special responses that aren't told to the player. This inevitably turns what would be fairly thrilling fights into trial and error without any enthusiasm or tension. I stopped enjoying these pretty fast. The exploration gameplay is just flat-out not fun. the Monochrome 2-D sprites in a 3-D void only made comprehensible as a maze pulled straight from a doom level by white line detailing, all complimented by music that gave me a headache. You're forced to navigate using behind...

UPDATED AS OF 4/16 It's got some Punchout blood running in it's veins. But it goes a step beyond, and not only offers a story, explorable maps ( with hidden goodies along the way ) the fighting itself is a huge evolution to the Punchout formula. You attack left, right - upper / lower , you can dodge left and right , and block . Sounds about right, and then you fight a boss that has you dodging lasars, destroying machines and all the while, actually still boxing against the foe. One of the bosses has you fighting a Chef, requiring you to hit food / objects at him - in the pot, etc. Lots of neat little interactions in the battles ( which are quite hard ) UPDATED- The devs have added windowed options, and resolution options. The exploring segments are a bit slow, as Pato Box has a slow move speed. It's not the focus, but it can be a little wearying. Pros - The visual style is very neat- A Film Noire- esque style, with bold contrasting lines and shadowing. The fighting is very , very ...

Just not fun. Really disappointing because I've been interested in it since it came out. It's unique and obviously the developers put some thought and effort into it. I gave it an honest chance. Unfortunately the gameplay is poorly executed, and it's just not fun.

I got to the casino and the struggle for 300 coins alone was enough to drop the game. Call me bad but that's what happened. If there's a way to easily get 300 I'll try it again for the boxing but even then that's not the greatest. The overworld brings it all down and the boxing lacks Punch-Out's charm and especially audio telegraphs, fighters could stand out from the background (and Pato) more...it has potential but it ain't there.

The game is just poorly designed in general. The art style makes it impossible to dodge your opponent's attacks during fights, and the tank controls for movement outside of fights are frustrating to deal with. Everything between the fights feels like forced padding, and the fights themselves aren't very fun either.

I want to start off and say that my reviews are judged on 'base price' of the game. In this case the current price is 15$. I say that yeah, I think this game would be worth 15$, however 'to who' is the question. Let me try to help any of you who are on the fence about this game right out the gate. I'll tell you a few things the game has that might attract or repel you. -The main character is a man with the head of a duck. -The main gameplay is reminiscent of 'Punch out' (And maybe a lil bit of 'Crossed Swords' in there) -There are 3rd person walk around sections in the 'story mode' version of the game (but there is also an arcade mode if you want to skip that) -The story is a Bizarre mix of typical Hollywood 'take down the big bad by fighting all his lieutenants and then the big bad himself' and 'We really like ducks a lot'. (The story was stupid IMO, but I enjoyed it's presentation and the ending had the right kind of charm to make me feel satisfied) -Everything is in black and whi...

Goddammit I wish I liked this more, but unfortunately visual clarity and fluid animation are very important when it comes to this kind of game. Fighting a boss that randomly decides to go into the background and hit me for 30 seconds with an attack I can't counterpunch with no reward afterward, only for RNG to give that attack twice in a row is not fun. The fights aren't particularly fun, and then the secondary puzzle sections aren't either. I wish it had focused more on one or the other.

If you ever have had fantasies of beating up women as a duck then this game is for you.

Отлично оформленная, стильная игра. Подробнее в видеообзоре на ютубе https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJNvdTU1ImA

Warning, before you buy this game, a bug that's happening with me personally, in Vorutki fight it's impossible to punch all 3 grenades if your fps isn't locked at 60 keep that in mind if you are going for 100% this game, now for the review. This game is such an underrated gem, it is a worthy spiritual successor from Punch-Out and innovates in almost everything although i would like an option to play without health regen, it can be rage inducing in some parts but if you are willing to have pacience and learn enemy patterns Pato Box will not be ultra difficult for you. As for its story Pato Box is a masterpiece, the game does great presenting a narrative and backstory of the Deathflock Elites in terms of who are you fighting against and why, it makes me think where all the reviews or video essays of people analysing this game story and all of these characters? there is literally a goldmine here. Congratulations to Bromio and 2think! this was an amazing adventure :D