Then you get the hang of the combos, and the scores are incredible! One hour later, you realise you’re still playing with one recurring goal: keep beating your personal death. Eventually, you get hit, after three times your lives are gone and you’re done. Classic arcade score-booster.įail fast, then get back into it – fast-paced arcade action at its best The more bad guys you hit without missing any and punching dead air, the more your score rockets thanks to combo points. However, that won’t get you on the high score leader board. The more bad guys you destroy, the higher your score. There are two buttons – one to attack left, another to attack right. There’s no directional buttons – but then there’s no particular direction to go in. Your job, as Kung Fury, is to beat ’em up. And they start slow, but very quickly they come at your fast. So here’s what happens – after the wonderfully clipped animation of the intro, you’re dropped in the middle of a typical urban environment straight out of the 1980s – i.e. The fast ramping up of difficulty (iOS games tend to ease you in these days), the pure focus on a high score (narrative? Pah – who needs it!), multiple enemies to destroy, button-bashing mayhem – Kung Fury does it all properly. There are plenty of games on the iPhone claiming to be retro but they misses so many nuances.

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