A quiet nook of the Preventing video games scene is blowing up due to 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 is no memorizing of combos as a result of all the pieces you execute is frame-perfect as you deliberate it.
The combating sport is stripped again to the wealthy methods at its core. Your selections are essentially strategic, about which transfer is greatest, not whether or not or not you possibly can 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 dust with repeated strikes. There are at the moment 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 best way folks play tool-assisted speedruns, utilizing exterior software program and {hardware} to realize absurd, inhumanly good 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 wished to play a severe combating sport towards different folks in years. Yomi Hustle, nonetheless, presents explosive fights that aren’t simply unimaginable entertaining, however enjoyable to look at. Lightning-fast fight performs out at an approachable tempo, and each combo appears 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 dropping rather a lot.
It is not 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 is not 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 notably detrimental little bit of self-talk made a fairly dank videogame that a number of folks appear to love and so ought to maybe reassess their self-image.
You’ll find Your Solely Transfer is HUSTLE on Steam for $5. You can too attempt an older, free model on itch.io. It has much less content material than the Steam launch, which, to be clear, is barely $5.
Anyway, here is what an entire shutout seems like, through Twitter (opens in new tab).