Smash-Style Indie Brawler Slap City Gets A Surprise Release On Switch eShop

If I end up ever buying a Smash knockoff, it will be Rivals of Aether.

That is a surprise, I personally don’t see any reason to get it over other games like nick all star brawl, since there the same devs, but I never played it before, so it could be vary different.

The characters also look good as well.

Yooo nice! I’m absolutely picking this up when I can; been wanting to for a while.

@sketchturner Great choice. RoA is an excellent platform fighter. Awesome characters, deep but accessible mechanics, beautiful sprite art and music.

@MH4 Also playable Shovel Knight

Everyone don't be fooled by the graphics.
I've spend 1000+ hours in Smash Ultimate alone and I still like Slap City way more. I recommend it especially to Melee fans. I'm having a blast every time I play it with friends.

The characters are so damn well designed and fun it's incredible.

If you have friends to play the game with it's a must buy for smash fans imo. The player base is small unfortunately so depending on the region it can be hard to find games online, keep that in mind.

@PBandSmelly I know, can we just stop calling them not, there not knockoffs, it’s annoying honestly.

I have very fond memories watching Ludvix play this. The mechanics are amazing and there are some absolutely ridiculous moves in this game.

I agree with everyone else. Games have genres. They are not ‘insert leading game of its kind-likes‘.

Well ittle dew 2 has been one of the best top down Zelda "tributes" in the past few years so I'll look into this one.

Smash bros is a slap city-like

Ludosity are a good indie dev team. Slap City is a great and silly game for fans of Smash-style fighting games, and Ittle Dew 2 is amazing for fans of A Link Between Worlds and top-down Zelda style games.

@Neckcrane Except roguelike (named after the 1980 game Rogue) and adventure (named after the 1976 game Adventure).

@PBandSmelly NL have been doing this with every single article headline lately. Everything is a "-like" and I'm kind of sick of it.

Does it have a fun single player mode?

Edit: Watched the trailer and it looks pretty fun. Plus it has a story mode & campaigns!

@sketchturner If you can, get the Steam version of rivals of aether. It has very easy to use mod integration, and people have made amazing characters from across all sorts of video games and other media.

@NinjaWaddleDee Yeah I'm torn on that. I'm about to get a Steamdeck, and I'd love to get RoA on there due to the mods, but also my main interest is playing local multiplayer with my kids, so getting it on Switch makes more sense for that reason 🤷‍♂️

@sketchturner I understand. Personally I just have my PC hooked up to my TV like a console anyway, so I play it at parties all the time, but the switch portability is nice.

This game is very good. I have had so much fun playing it through the years.

@fishbujin What do you mean "don't be fooled by the graphics", i have no interest in platform fighters but i like this art style so much that this might actually be my first one 😄. It looks wonderful to me and with you saying such positive things about it i'm really tempted, haha

@OwenGamer22 And playable Ori

@StefanN
I like the visuals as well but the art style could give the wrong impression that it's only targeted at children.
However it's a very precise fighting game with deep mechanics and was designed with the competitive scene in mind.

Totally enjoyable for casual players aswell.

@Crockin
Don't compare this garbage game to Slap City just kidding

Slap city rocks man I love the insane huge hitstun attacks, such a good time with friends

@PBandSmelly nah its a smash clone