One Strike

Good concept, terrible controls, CPU on hard can input actions faster than your hardware can literally keep up. Laughable.

It's that retro game that you get for less than a Coke so why not. Half an hour ago I finished the game three times, 2 in arcade mode, 1 in 1 kills mode, both in easy difficulty. I won't say it is a fighting game because you only get one attack move of each character, and one hit will kill for you and your opponent, timing and when to attack/defiance is the core. Like most fighting games, characters in One Strike are not all that balanced, from the character selection page I picked that guy with a long katana to hit my opponent at a longer distance, and he gave me the first successful run. As the achievement popped up, I noticed players using another guy had the highest accomplished rate and that's when I realized Hangaku, the guy who uses a ridiculously long hook is almost a cheat in the game. His hook can go more than half of the screen, with the longest melee weapon in the game I win easily in 5 seconds. The only guy who may be a threat is the ninja throws Shuriken, but he wouldn't do it at the beginning of the game. As a result, anyone who picks Hangaku in Easy difficulty is very likely to beat the game. I also bought the DLC but the extra maps/characters do not show up. If…

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Unique game with a pretty fun gameplay idea. It somehow makes it quite fun to play with the one strike mechanic, and each and every character feels different, to the point you will actually have to learn to play the game once again to master the character properly. And be careful, the DLC completely breaks the balance and makes it nearly impossible to complete the game.

It's a very limited game for the price. You can literally beat the hardest difficulty with one hand and looking from the side of your eyes. Unless you have it on a local venue with many other players to play with, it's not gonna last longer than 10mins without a online multiplayer. Great game, but not worth the money spent on it. Hopefully Two Strikes will make this better, but the differences there already worry me a bit (heavy and light attacks on a 1 "strike" 2D game don't work as well if you have 2 strikes for light attacks and 1 for heavy. The third game will have 3 low, 2 medium and 1 heavy for death? Come on.

A solid 1-Hit-KO fighting game. The different modes add a needed level of replayability. Pretty good for the price. 7/10