I'm going to start this blog pure and simple; 'Playstation Allstar Battle Royale' is a blatant clone of Super Smash Brothers. Not such a bad thing...but, everyone's pretending that Sony haven't experimented with SSB style gameplay before. Actually they did and you can find this game on PSN, I'm talking 'Ragdoll Kung Fu; Fists of Plastic' and there's a pretty good time to be had with friends if you give it the time.
Ragdoll Kung Fu Fists of Plastic is basically a spinoff of the original indie game for PC which is what got the future head honchos of Media Molecule the reputation to develop Little Big Planet. The main difference being RKF:FoP being handled by a different team, Tarsier, who also made later LBP DLC and the game was developed around the Sixaxis controller.
For a short period after release in 2009, Ragdoll Kung Fu: FoP was given away for free on the US PSN and if you were lucky enough (and sly) enough to set up a US account for free content, basically you could download the game. Which is what I did.
Ragdoll Kung Fu: FoP does seem like more of an experiment for Sony and to be honest, it's graphical artstyle is, basically ugly as heck but perfectly suited for plastic looking oriental combatants. But, if you gave a bit of time and find another willing player, it's actually a pretty decent 2D arena brawler.
Because the controls were rather complicated and some attacks responded to the controller being thrust in a particular direction, the game had a very in depth selection of training missions and to be honest, you'd be useless if you didn't take these tutorials.
To add onto the SSB comparisons, Fists of Plastic also had items you could pick up such as nun chucks and batons, health pick ups and items which you could throw to generally cause damage to the other player.
To attack, you had to press the corresponding attack button and thrust the controller in that motion or throw energy balls using 'chi' which you charge up out of combat by turning the controller upside down and meditating leaving yourself open to hit. It was quite easy to fall off the stages a lot by generally attempting to hit the other player. Luckily, if you had the power stored from gaining 'chi' you could also rescue yourself from falling down, by blasting up in the air like a character from Dragonball Z and pull off a masterful uppercut on the opponent at the same time.
Fists of Plastic also had some nice touches taken from Little Big Planet, such as waving your arms around by using the mostly unused shoulder buttons whilst moving the relevant analogue stick. So there was opportunities to pose after wins, kills or generally to slap your opponent in the face.
Lastly, Fists of Plastic had a mode which revolved around being hit by a ball with stored energy, not much different from Tekken 3's Tekken Ball and personally, this was a great alternative than just knocking each other off the stage or hitting each other with fireballs as half of the gameplay was decided by physics.
Either way, if you like the look of Playstation Allstars Battle Royale, have a gander at Ragdoll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic and stop reading this because I'm running out of different ways to abbreviate these game with stupidly large titles. It's a decent game and it's probably cheap now. Perhaps Sony should give it for free to all regions for a limited time in the build up to PABR. See I told you I was running out of ways to shorten the amount of typing these game names. But anyway, that's my blog about the precursor of the battle royale which shall be fought with Playstation allstars, hopefully a nice little history lesson and a lesson not to name brawlers such stupid large names.
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Do you really not know this is about the n-word or are you saying that black people can't get offended because it upsets you?
I can't believe they're censoring this game on day 1. Games just aren't the same.
/s in case it's needed. I'm fine with them making these changes that they might not have known is culturally insensitive to some people in the big ole world. But that's just me.
They are censoring something that is deemed offensive by Journalists quoting the offensive term verbatim. They are typing it intentionally in articles while in the game it's a wall texture saying Hard next to a unrelated 3d model sign that says R store. Is it offensive or not? Crazy town.
At least IGN just shows the term with a screenshot of the game. Because it's their "discovery" and to not show hypocrisy in their HUGE vitue signal.
Hard R is the not offensive way to describe an offensive term. Are they going to type "Ha$$ R" or not use the term now?
Oh, hey, I agree with you that IGN and other journalists are dumb. Not disagreement there. But, I think for a game going out to millions of people across the world? It's not something they want associated with them. It's just horrific PR.
Add to the horrific PR nightmare that this is the first major Korean-developed Sony-published title, if I'm not mistaken.
There aren't that many Korean developed titles in general. And the allowance of this only would drive a bigger fissure in east vs west especially after Final Fantasy XVI released featuring no black characters at all...
Not a good look for Sony regardless of how you personally feel about it or the people that talk about it.
I'm not saying it shouldn't have been changed. It's an easy fix and looks like it was an easy fix.
But the word HARD being too close to the letter R being a horrific PR nightmare and a indication of a racist developer is beyond crazy.
I'm offended by the sight of blood a d violence and find violence to be very insensitive...
We can all play stupid and pretend to be offended by graphics and fake worlds.
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Ragdoll Kung Fu is a pretty awesome game. The combat works really well.
Ragdoll Kung-fu is in the genre all right, but somehow more than original enough to stand on its own feet.
Dodgeball mode makes this one of the best offline multiplayer games out there!