

They are basically what is technically called “ragdolls”, with a bit more texture but with the same “gelatinous” movements that characterize these polygonal models. Not sure why, the characters we use in the game are almost without a solid skeleton and love to disguise themselves as animals or various characters, with obvious possibilities of costumes to unlock that offer huge different possibilities, all equally crazy. There’s no story behind Gang Beasts, a game that relies solely on its immediate gameplay to stage situations that are decidedly out of the ordinary.

All this to say that even Gang Beasts takes advantage of this concept to apply it to the group multiplayer fighting game, with the consequences that you can imagine. From Takeshi’s Castle onwards, or Mai Dire Banzai in our parts, the principle has always been infallible and the success of these bizarre video games proves it. The principle is typical of games that focus on the effect of demential: complicate simple movements in order to stage, in a natural way, grotesque and irresistible situations.
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The biggest success born from this simple and wacky idea is most likely Human: Fall Flat, a game that continues to go crazy also driven by the streaming phenomenon and YouTube videos, but in the same category we can insert also Goat Simulator and the more recent Totally Reliable Delivery Service and TABS: Totally Accurate Battle Simulator. Still, it took almost a long time to get our hands on a version for Nintendo Switch that, however, does not disappoint expectations.Īt some point in the history of video games someone must have realized that the “wrong” application of physics could work as an element of gameplay itself. In addition to the fact that the demographics of the users seem to fit perfectly in the target sought by the developers. Let’s take advantage of the game’s arrival on Nintendo Switch to analyze a product that on Nintendo’s console finds its ideal location, since the possibility of making local multiplayer matches “on the fly” and in portability represent a huge advantage for a product of this genre.

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Let’s take a look at the review of Gang Beasts and how its irresistible blend of stoned physics and multiplayer i suitable for Nintendo Switch.įor a game all about multiplayer action in party game style and possibly offline, it is really strange that we are only now facing a review of Gang Beasts, considering that its first release dates back even to 2014 in early access on PC and in the meantime has arrived on all other platforms.
