Sure, I did beat the CPU even when it was blocking constantly but it felt more like I got lucky than actually fighting it properly. After the 1.0.3 patch, this seems to have been toned down a bit to the point where fighting against the CPU no longer seems like an exercise in futility. The computer controlled characters when I first started writing this review basically would spam the block button, counter any move you made and unleash their fury on you as soon as you made a mistake. Regular, high and low attacks combined with various magical abilities keeps the fighting interesting and varied. There may only be four standard attack styles you can perform but there are countless combos you can pull off and various abilities that use those four buttons as their foundation. However, each character is fairly unique once you get past those four basic buttons so calling it a “4-Button Fighting” game is a bit deceptive. The standard attacks are bound the same for all characters. The fighting is.įighting is your typical four primary buttons fighting style.
It’s actually for the most part an enjoyable part of the game on its own and it isn’t even the main focus of the game. Exploring the map in both the side view and 2.5D allows you to find somewhat hidden collectibles, solve puzzles, find battles to gain experience or collect salt to purchase things you may want. I have more to say about that, but I will leave that for later. This allows you to navigate the terrain in different ways than the 2.5D perspective would have allowed.
Once you find something to interact with that goes beyond just talking you are taken to a side view that is similar to when you are in combat. Moving around the 2.5D map allows your character to explore either the lobby or the story depending on which you are currently visiting. The RPG elements kind of remind me of the Super Nintendo style RPGs I grew up with. The styles are the combat the game is built around and the Role-Playing Game style explorable map. The gameplay is broken into two different styles. Instead, other than all being quadrupeds, there is nothing really in common as they are all their own species. Had it remained true to the original, they would have been simply a different genus of the same species. I actually think breaking away from being a fan game to being its own game was probably the best thing that could have happened to this game. Each character has a number of skins to change their appearance and each one has its own unique abilities that complement the standard set of moves each character has. There are only six playable characters to choose from at the time of writing this which is quite a bit less than your typical fighting game, but that doesn’t really detract anything from the game. These new creations just pay homage to the source characters rather than also looking like them. Fortunately, unlike most fan projects, getting shut down didn’t stop the Developer from continuing the project with its own characters. Unfortunately like a lot of fan projects that show promise, the game was shut down by the legal team of the studio that produced that diminutive equine cartoon. It was a fan game based on a cartoon that was quite popular at the time. You may not know it but Them’s Fightin’ Herds started its life as a different game.
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