Okinawa RushSwitch eShop

The game flaunts a "custom combat system" and I will agree that's comprehensive without being overwhelming. Different moves can be executed with directional inputs and you can guard against attacks with movement inputs towards the attack direction.

However, it's only -very nearly- a good game. The experience is marred by two things: many bugs. In any given 5-minute snapshot, you will have noticed movement and traversal issues. At time, jumps don't register, animations get stuck, combat commands are omitted.

The second problem is that the game doesn't let you sink into the combat system: enemies are simply dumped on top of you en masse. Rather than carefully using selected moves to overcome skill tests, I'm punished for doing so because I'm constantly facing large clumps of very stupid (but very fast) opponents.

What I am rewarded for is simple rapid attack-forward-attack-forward input spam which both kills everyone and blocks all their damage.

Thoughtful and tactical combat doesn't exist here yet but the framework exists. The game just needs work on enemy AI and to be paced a little more slowly so players can actually get their teeth into the combat systems.