A quiet nook of the Preventing video games scene is blowing up because of the discharge of Your Solely Transfer Is Hustle. Yomi Hustle, as adherents name it, is an indie that viciously strips the Preventing style aside and places it again collectively in a turn-based format that also has all of the hallmarks and options you’d count on.
At its core nothing adjustments, that is nonetheless a sport about strikes and counter-moves, frame-focused interactions between distinct characters, and mastering movesets. Yomi Hustle, nonetheless, makes it turn-based with simultaneous execution. You continue to should plan and select what you need to do, however there isn’t any memorizing of combos as a result of every little thing you execute is frame-perfect as you deliberate it.
The preventing sport is stripped again to the wealthy methods at its core. Your selections are basically strategic, about which transfer is greatest, not whether or not or not you may bodily enter a combo quick sufficient.
What performs out from these fundamentals are extremely over-the-top fights between wild characters with insane, Dragonball-Z model movesets which ship enemies flying in wild arcs or pummel them into the filth with repeated strikes. There are at present 4 full characters: Cowboy, Ninja, Robotic, and Wizard. The sport neighborhood, nonetheless, is already modding the crap out of this factor, and Steam Workshop assist is deliberate sooner or later.
Yomi Hustle was impressed by the way in which folks play tool-assisted speedruns, utilizing outdoors software program and {hardware} to realize absurd, inhumanly excellent or in any other case unattainable scores. (See this Zelda run (opens in new tab), or this Doom one (opens in new tab), for good examples.) The trick is that you simply get that inhuman precision in character management on a regular basis.
To be very frank, I have not needed to play a severe preventing sport towards different folks in years. Yomi Hustle, nonetheless, provides explosive fights that aren’t simply unbelievable entertaining, however enjoyable to observe. Lightning-fast fight performs out at an approachable tempo, and each combo seems like a brand new, distinctive chain of assaults that you simply might need by no means seen earlier than. For the primary time shortly, I am simply having fun with being right here and shedding loads.
It isn’t simply native and on-line multiplayer, nonetheless. The singleplayer mode is a full-on combat choreographer the place you management the motions of each characters. There isn’t any AI to combat towards, only a pleasant set of instruments for creating wild combat replays between two chunky stick folks.
Yomi Hustle is made by a solo developer who goes by Ivy Sly, a self-described (opens in new tab) “disabled slovenly fool” who regardless of that significantly destructive little bit of self-talk made a reasonably dank videogame that plenty of folks appear to love and so ought to maybe reassess their self-image.
You will discover Your Solely Transfer is HUSTLE on Steam for $5. You may also attempt an older, free model on itch.io. It has much less content material than the Steam launch, which, to be clear, is just $5.
Anyway, here is what a whole shutout appears like, through Twitter (opens in new tab).