A foolish combating recreation during which you combat livid, sentient meals, Leftovers KO! delivers precisely what it guarantees. It provides a easy premise offered in a manner that doesn’t introduce any pointless complication which may get in the best way of punching a pizza within the olives.
The sport doesn’t have a lot of a narrative. It doesn’t clarify how or why the meals you’ve deserted to rot round your own home has mutated into big aggressive monsters. You’re merely tasked with boxing the monsters to outlive. Early on within the recreation, you obtain a telephone name from a terrified neighbour which hints at some sort of narrative, however that finally ends up not constructing to a bigger story.
The gameplay almost completely takes the type of boxing the moldy monsters. The controls are easy. You employ one analog keep on with dodge assaults. There may be one button to punch and one other to carry out a power-punch, which is especially sturdy if tried at precisely the suitable second. There may be nothing else to study other than the simply identifiable patterns of your enemies.
You monitor the success of every battle through a well being and power bar on the backside of the display. You lose well being with every punch you’re taking and power with every punch you throw. Your power regenerates however by no means exceeds your well being. In case you are crushed down, you gained’t have sufficient power to win. Your opponents even have a well being bar, however it’s considerably deceptive as your enemies will stand up and combat once more in case your remaining transfer wasn’t a power-punch, although you might be by no means instructed this within the recreation. It does get irritating persevering with to scale back a rival’s well being to zero with no clarification supplied in recreation as to why they maintain getting up.
The important thing to successful in the end is determined by timing and discovering patterns. It’s not terribly troublesome to identify the assault and motion routines of every opponent. Nonetheless, you need to hit each with simply the suitable particular transfer to unlock the purpose you’ll want to carry out the power-punch you’ll want to do to win. That is tougher as a result of there aren’t clues, and determining feels much less like an fascinating puzzle to dive into than hitting the one two buttons you utilize in any respect at random till one thing works. Victory is extremely depending on timing, which once more will get irritating because the controls aren’t responsive sufficient for it to be so integral to the one actual gameplay in Leftovers KO!.
The hand drawn artwork model is legitimately nice. Every of the completely different enemies you face has a definite sense of persona about it, characterised by its design and motion. It’s genuinely stunning how a lot emotion the group have managed to place onto the faces of raging animated meals, leading to some actually pleasant expressions once you thump a burger within the buns. The plunging shadows within the background of your dimly lit flat create a compelling sense of worry as an infinite pizza lunges out from the darkness in the direction of you. The artwork is paired with an equally charming soundtrack which solely provides to the threatening ambiance and ramps up the stress.
Clearly, quite a lot of effort has gone into establishing that atmosphere, and it does do quite a lot of the heavy lifting with regards to drawing you into Leftovers KO!. Nonetheless, it’s not sufficient to maintain ongoing curiosity in a recreation that’s in the end very repetitive, poorly defined, and extremely depending on a swiftness its clunky controls can’t fairly sustain with. The saving grace of Leftovers KO! is that it’s a minimum of pretty low cost, with a $10 price ticket that will get extra cheap once you issue within the 30% low cost presently utilized on the Swap retailer.
