Banzai Pecan: The Last for the Young Century
I was willing to give this game and its developer the benefit of the doubt, but after playing this thing and the developer being an ego douche who can't take criticisim, I want to slander his this guy's name anywhere I can. I'm a big fan of beat 'em ups, tried "demoing" this game and thought "hey maybe this could be a guilty pleasure," but at the end of day after getting it from Indie Gala's bundle I feel guilty owning this.
It's a shallow button-masher with frame-rate hiccups, which is inexcusable when it looks like it came from a lousy Flash game on Newgrounds and the PC I'm running it on exceeds its minimum requirements, bad input response that contributes to fake difficulty, generic artstyle and character design (ironicly the unlockable concept art looks much more polished than the game itself), boring music (unless you like repeative techno music with no energy, rhytm, or sense of urgency, then be my guest), gets nothing right as a PC game made under Multimedia Fusion 2 (no video setting or resolution options, no fullscreen option, a v-sync option that doesn't do a thing, bad controller supoort, etc.)and a very cliché animu tride story with some bad writing on top of it. Normally I wouldn't harp on action games with lackluster storylines, but when you have a story that relies too much on pop-culture references to be funny or cool, you have a problem, and when I politely criticise the story to the developer, he tells me "Welcome to the 80's!" This is the kind of douchebaggy response I'd expect from terrible creepypasta writers, not struggling game developers. "Brotha"Kyo, you can go fuck yourself with a cactus.
If anyone wants a good 2D beat 'em up, please take my advice and avoid Banzai Pecan, instead hunt down Streets of Rage Remake v5 and the v5.1 patch, it's free and easy to find, a lot of fun, loaded with content, has good remixes of the series' legendary music, and has a lot more heart than Banzai Pecan could only dream of.