Recent reviews by ivy sly

i have so many friends

english gamedev hiring japanese voice actors to talk like babies for their english-language game incurs a life sentence in cringe idiot jail. have some self respect

my eyes hurt

it's a little chunky but I like how the lemmings talk back

Note my playtime is inaccurate because I have been playing the private alpha as well.

Rushdown Revolt is ugly as sin, the music sucks, the voice acting is distractingly bad, and it has a stupid name. Yet there is one quality, more important than any other, which carries Rushdown like Atlas shouldering the heavens: it has the sauce.

Project M players will like it because it is Project M's ethos taken to its logical extreme. Guilty Gear players might also like it because it has roman cancels.

On one hand it is derivative for a Super Smash Bros. clone (compared to, for example, Rivals of Aether or Brawlhalla, but not Slap City), as it keeps many holdover mechanics that others don't, but it's also very unique from Smash, because what it adds and changes transforms the game into something nearly unrecognizable.

If you can get past the nauseating budget-League art direction and impressively uninspired character designs, there is a rewarding platform fighter underneath, with a relatively high skill ceiling (and floor) for an indie title. Normally I wouldn't be able to stomach this kind of design-by-committee aesthetic gore, but I will do it for Rushdown Revolt, because despite everything, it is a good game.