![]() ![]() You can invite people, but they have to already be on your Switch friends list, which is admittedly pretty standard.Ĭaptured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) Sure, you can get a third-party app for voice chat, but that sort of defeats the point of a party game - although no one's really having parties right now anyway, which isn't Gang Beasts' fault. Without voice chat, which is not really one of the Nintendo Switch's strengths, Gang Beasts is a frustrating game about fighting unruly physics with a bunch of silent strangers. It's more about laughing at the ridiculous wiggling bodies and their ineffectual floppy headbutts than it is about the skill required to actually be good at the game, and that's fine by us.īut that does mean that Gang Beasts doesn't really work as well as an online multiplayer game. The winner is often, by default, the only person who didn't trip over their own feet - but that doesn't make it any less fun in Local Play, because the fun is the chaos. We dare not laugh, for example, when faced with a wrestling-style fight between jellies dressed up by workers, cats, pirates and penguins, or in front of a scuffle between a springy with Donald Trump’s wig and another dressed as Rick Sanchez, as the tentacle of a giant octopus attempts to drag them both into the depths of an aquarium tank.Most matches end because people struggle to keep their jellyboys upright, let alone managing to punch anyone else off a ferris wheel. Managing wrestlers is a real undertaking, and on the other hand it is the aspect that, together with the bizarre possibilities of cosmetic customization of the alter ego, allows Gang Beasts to create situations that are nothing short of hilarious. ![]() Avatars can jump, grab rivals, punch, kick and head them, but without the precision one would expect from a normal brawler (Want an example? Here’s our Fall Guys review) ![]() Each user interprets one and must learn to tame its movements as soon as possible, a rather demanding operation as the characters are characterized by a completely spineless ragdoll physics. The formula, very simple in itself, then finds its definitive raison d’etre in a demented staging that revolves around the protagonists of the brawl: flaccidi blob colorati. The idea behind Gang Beasts starts from this primordial taste for brawls: each game in fact provides that from two to eight players fight each other in various “arenas” (a running train, the interior of an incinerator, a slab of ice on the sea …), trying in every way to throw from the first to the last opponent beyond the allowed limits. It is not nice when it happens in real life, but it cannot be denied that, in the fiction of audiovisual products, observing people intent on “beating themselves up” is an excellent source of entertainment after all, it is the lifeblood of many action films, as well as of all fighting games. A small multiplayer-only phenomenon that is certainly worth rediscovering. For those who still don’t know, let’s talk about one of those titles with deliberately gameplay “ wrong“yet, for this very reason, extremely hilarious, at least under certain conditions. After landing on all the systems of the last generation, the landing on Nintendo Switch seemed almost inevitable and in fact finally, the port for hybrid console has also appeared in the physical edition, albeit with delay. Crazy birth of the small English team Boneloaf, then noticed and supported by none other than the guys from Double Fine, the game has in fact been able to win the sympathy of a fair slice of the public since 2014, when it was still stationed in Steam Early Access. And in the case of Gang Beasts it doesn’t surprise us that much.
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