Indie Beat 'Em Up I Am The Hero Is Smashing Its Way Onto Switch This Year

I like a good beat em up, but I'm not seeing one here. If it reviews well, I'll give it a shot.

I think it's about time indies start putting some effort into their art work. The 8 bit look is wearing thin now.

I could be wrong, but by the looks of the enemy health bars this is going to be one of those games where it takes several minutes to beat one enemy. If that's the case, I'll pass.

Will this game be free when it comes out? If it is, then I still don't want it. I hate to say that, because I know someone spent time on this game, but at the same time, I have to be honest so they know to do better next game. If that trash of a port Street Fighter 2 sold 500k copies on the Switch, more by now, who knows, maybe this will get a few hundred k sold.

It's a good game, I have it on Steam. Pretty animations, good ol' button mashing BMUP action, plus you can switch between characters (unlocked characters are nothing spectacular tho) and/or learn new "Street Fighter"-like moves. Strange, puzzling plot that will get you smiling in the end. If the price is right (12/13 max) I would recommend it.

'Inspired by the classics'

That's the videogame version of 'based on a true story'

@Dizzy_Boy They always say its the "8 bit" look. But no 8 bit games ever look like that. Only shovel knight got it right. This is just some sort of new pixel art

@NYCallday that's why I wish they moved away from it. I'm not expecting indies to make highly detailed games, they could atleast try out something other than what everyone else is doing.

nope.
heres a real beat em up game everyone should be looking forward to called paprium. this term "beat em up" is getting tossed out there way too much these days

@Dizzy_Boy I have been saying that for a while now. I know how the whole 8-bit "pixel art" look has a lot of fans in gaming communities but I have never found it that appealing.

By now it feels like we have had countless games with that style and it's like unless you are the type of person who adores it, the style gets really tiring. It works best in small doses.

@JayJ There's NES games that look better than some of the efforts that some indies put out.
Isolated Warrior and Micro Machines NES are two I can imidiatly think of.

@NYCallday "Shovel Knight" got it right, because they did a properly detailed 16-bit style, not 8-bit. This game is just ugly.

@Dizzy_Boy I agree. Back then they were making games look as good as they could, now it is just some overused artistic direction because of how easy it is to do.

@BulbasaurusRex Hmm noo I think they were aiming for 8-bit flavor with Shovel Knight. It looks more reminiscent of the Megaman games on NES than the ones on SNES. The music uses more NES style sounds as well

@NYCallday No, it doesn't. Maybe the sound effects, but no 8-bit game has anywhere near that level of detail in its pixel art except for maybe the graphical cream of the crop like "Kirby's Adventure" and "TMNT 3: The Manhattan Project," and the music is definitely too good for the NES to even think of playing.

@BulbasaurusRex I think you're being too literal with what I'm saying.

Its obvious that the "feeling" of 8 bit era platform games is what they they were aiming for. Not that the NES can actually run Shovel Knight. 16 bit games of the time had a different look.

I don't know. I think this game looks like a lot of fun. Shrug? I'm interested.

Ahhh. Nintendo fans.

On one hand we're all gameplay>graphics.

But then something falls outside our norms of what we call 'acceptable' visuals and suddenly we start showing our backsides about it.

This is what makes life difficult for me.

Every day presents a crisis of identity.

"I mean, I like my throwbacks. But you can only throw as far back as 16 bits. Anything further back, I take as a personal slight. Against me and my mother."

@Dizzy_Boy Yeah this would of been nicer in a 16-bit aesthetic.
Silly that the cut-scenes definitely are.

@ogo79 I backed it since day one, going on for six years ago now. Where the hell is it?

@YANDMAN agreed. Contra Rebirth on the Wii shows where I think the level of visuals should be at.

@Dizzy_Boy Best Contra ever.

@YANDMAN
well, tulio (the guy behind pier solar left watermelon due to creative differences)...the problem likes within fonzie, its always been like that. hes not very transparent/communicative

@ogo79 As a company i ahve totally lost faith in them. Its absolutely no good that somebody running a game company as you say should lack transparency, plus there is a big difference between transparency and abnsolutely no communication. A year ago we were promised a lengthy gameplay video, it never happened. Then citing more delays and issues which to me seem fabricated the game was set back for an October 2017 release. This then got cancelled and currently i beleive it was meant for March this year but seeing as that is a couple of weeks away that obviously isn't going to happen either. Iv'e backed them fuly to this point but i wont bother again.

@YANDMAN
theres this too...
https://www.magicalgamefactory.com/en/blogs/?rdirectlink=49
they need to just put this on switch and modern systems

@ogo79 Yeah thats really old news, there has been two further announcements since this one.

@YANDMAN
what were those?

@ogo79 Just of release dates and a further gameplay video. None of which materialised.

@YANDMAN
oh yeah now i remember that. i remember now because nothing showed up, ha