Smashing Spirits: Brazil's First Boxer Reviews

Fast paced & difficult <3 The way we like it ;D

Played as a person of colour. Used watermelons as health pickups. 11/10

This game is amazing. Lightweight and fast, it allows a challenging gameplay. It features scenery and engaging sound, which stimulates the game’s advancement. I loved the effects of punches and agility. The most interesting is the difficulty, for me it is in an ideal level for a real challenge.

Good platformer/fighting game however if you're going for all the achievements this game is INCREDIBLY difficult.

I was uncertain about this game at first but it grows on you. :) Nice mix of "boxing fighter" and indie platformer.

Honestly, I've been playing this game since a few days after first release and I really enjoyed it. It's so pretty and nice to play, soundtrack is really good too! Only problem I got with this game is no air dashes but thats okay. Such a fantastic game! Tip: learn the patterns! If you don't wanna be crushed, then you need to know when to dodge the enemy's attacks ;)

Very good and beautiful game! The jogability is fluid and the ambientation is really nice! It is a difficult game (at least for me) but in a challenging way. Anyway, you can switch to an easier difficulty level if you want, which helps when you are stuck into a part of the game but want to move forward. I recomend!

Very good game! But don't expect an easy game. Really. It was very interesting and challenging the dodge moves with the enemy's patterns. The gameplay evolves a lot and gets a lot more exciting as you unlock moves and combos. I definitely recommend it.

This game says it's fast-paced, but it is not. It would be fun if it weren't for a few missing details. Given the concept, I don't understand why enemies don't mix up their moves in any way. They don't have patterns except "attack" which is the same attack every time, easy to dodge. Even worse, they all stand still. Not much opportunity for gameplay without enemies deciding to move.

[h1]A brawling 2D platformer[/h1] Sensen brothers' first game on Steam is different from their later stuff but still has a quirk up its sleeve. In [i]Smashing Spirits[/i] you play as an indigenous woman warrior who punches everyone: soldiers; jedi indians; archers; forest animals; even bushes and boxes. Everyone gets the punch. [h1]Fight through the world[/h1] Quirk is that you can do quick dodges sideways and rack up a combo when beating foes up, turning up damage if you don't get hit yourself. This takes a bit getting used up. You can keep the combo going by crouching and getting up every few punches, and with higher combos you deal more damage. There's also a strong punch for those finishing blows. Levels are forests and caves, with boss levels at the end of each section, and true to platforming they occur in multiple floors all with spear traps and moving platforms. They are relatively long, with branching parts where you can find secrets, like permanent health bonus or poor trapped animals to help. There are no insta-death traps but there are lots of enemies, almost all of which are relatively stationary, sometimes in awkward positions to attack. Tasks for achievements are to run through each level, kill every foe, and beat a par time. [h1]Some failures[/h1] My biggest qualm is that the tutorial fails to explain how the combos are built. Consequent punches, yes, but I was struggling long against the first boss before I realized how repeatedly crouching and standing up lets you continue the attacks indefinitely (well, until you have to dodge or enemies die out). Controls as such are fine (with both keyboard and gamepad options with rebinds), but the jumps are oddly sudden (described as "tight") and I didn't enjoy the combat aspect greatly. It is "just decent enough" for a relatively short game like this one. [h1]Good or nah[/h1] I spent about 5 hours completing the game, and then about 1-2 hours more to clean the achievements for combos (I found this the most difficult). I'm conflicted in that it was the last (so far) Sensen game I finished (even if it was their first) so I'm feeling nostalgic. While it's clearly a flawed game. I wouldn't recommend it to everybody but it's an interesting essay for a somewhat different platformer. So, maybe get it on sale if you're intrigued. [url=http://store.steampowered.com/curator/9997062/]~Twistorian Curator~[/url]