Fight Crab - Review of a fighting game at the rock (PC)

Everyone knows that Steam can be a real mine, sometimes there are real hidden pearls in the large catalog, but this time we have caught a crab.

We found ourselves in our hands Fight Crab, a fighting game developed by Calappa Games and published by PLAYISM starring different species of crustaceans.

Sharpen the claws

The game immediately presents itself as one of those arcade cabinets that you found in the most remote campsites of Saudi Calabria: speeded up game images, menus with badly outlined writings in a bright red with unlikely font and a turbo catchy music that gives meaning to all this trash that already smells like rotten fish.

If you survive the shock of the main menu, you will take your first steps in the tutorial where another crab will teach you, in an underwater ring, all the secrets of crab combat.

This is where the game begins to take a strange turn as, once you learn the commands, you will find a real crab simulator in your hands. In fact, in the game we will be able to move, shoot, separately control the claws to defend ourselves, hit or collect objects, but above all shoot energy waves and do the kaioken. In short, everything that crustaceans are really capable of.

Harden the shells

After the tutorial we will find ourselves undertaking the career mode where we will challenge other crabs in a series of wave fights until we collide with a final boss (usually a coconut crab). The main objective of every fight is to overturn the opponent with a typical percentage system Smash Bros: the higher the percentage, the greater the difficulty in getting up.

After each fight we will acquire crab points to spend to increase our stats and above all to buy weapons, because if a crab with a knife can be dangerous, imagine a crab with a halberd riding a 60's rigged wasp. During the fight we will also be able to collect the weapons dropped by the opponents while always keeping the fight for survival high.

The different equipments certainly facilitate the fight which however loses all the technicalities learned in the tutorial to become a chaotic button smasher caciarone. The same goes for the different types of crab that can be selected that will interact with the physics of the game, allowing you to overturn the opponent in different ways, bringing home victory. Each of them also has different stats as it should be.

Exaggerated scenery and music

The proposed scenarios range from the classic seabed to the frozen food counter, passing through castles, tables and entire cities to give the effect of war between Kaiju. Each of these arenas will have its peculiarities and its dangers, we will be able to interact with almost all the destructible elements (in WWE style) but we will also have to pay attention to the conformation of the battlefield. For example, falling off the table in a Chinese restaurant will cause us to be eliminated from the race in pure Tenkaichi style or an opponent will be able to wedge us between the buildings of what looks like a tarot version of Neo Tokyo in Evangelion.

But what really makes you overcome the many "ugliness" of this title are certainly the music, rock / electronic tracks typical of the 90s games that give a strong charge and gas you like the old Sonic games and immediately put you in the mood of pull chelates in pure anime style.

Another amazing thing about this title is the amount of ways to play between single player, local and online multiplayer, even there is the photo mode to better capture the highlights of the challenges between shellfish.

In conclusion:

Fight Crab is a game that doesn't take itself seriously, and that's perfectly fine. Surely the main sources of inspiration will have been great memes like Knife Crab and Crab Rave or the many strange videos that the internet offers us about these animals. Despite the simplicity with which it is proposed, the game puts us in front of such a large amount of characters and weapons from films, anime and the internet that they mix with each other as to make each battle unique and absolutely fun. Fight Crab is definitely a perfect title for a summer night of fooling around with friends.