Or if you have never played a game with something like that, think about Diablo from X-Men and his teleport power over short distances. To deal with all these threats, Mr Shifty has been gifted with what is often called a “blink” ability. Except that there are not just various types of enemies to deal with, but also traps such as lasers and defensive machine-gun turrets to spice things up and expertly change the pacing. While Hotline Miami revolves around enemy placement and how to quickly dispatch the mobsters by planning your route and your weapons, Mr Shifty mostly fights from up close which raises the issue of variety if you play for a long time. ![]() Oh yes, there is nothing as satisfying as pulling this off.Īnother major difference with Hotline Miami is the level design. And guess what, pointy bits traveling on a straight line? Chain impalement. Or throw some decor around, like the trident of a statue. Except that Mr Shifty will not stoop so low as to pick up dishonorable firearms, he will only use melee weapons. Mr Shifty is a 3D game played from a top-down perspective, with its titular character cleaning levels of a building by punching the goons with his bare hands or by picking up anything lying around that can be used as a weapon. Status: Beta Developer: Team Shifty Publisher: tinyBuild Genre: Action Release date: Q2 2017 Type: Single-player And when the inspiration is the masterpiece Hotline Miami, bring it on. After all, FPS games started off as “Doom-likes”. Mr.While complete clones are usually frowned upon, when a good formula has been established there is no reason not to get inspiration from it either to give us more of what we are craving, or to further a genre. ![]() I wanted more after the credits rolled and have since gone back to the stage select to perfect a few more of the levels. It's a slick, bright original title that is both fun and easy to play. Shifty feels great and fits well on the Nintendo Switch. Shifty, and a lot of rooms within the tower have puzzle-like qualities to them, where quick thinking is required to not suffer an insta-death. Like everything else in the game, laser traps can one-shot Mr. Teleporting is also used to get through the tower's security systems. Sticks and brooms can be handled like staffs and will one-shot any enemy, even multiple foes if they are bunched together when you make the swing. Levels are littered with destructible environments, almost everything is fair game for a bashing, whether it be a wall, door or table - Mr Shifty can destroy stuff by punching or teleporting through it, sometimes creating a melee weapon to use afterwards in the process. It's basically a get out of jail card you can quickly use to kill a few enemies when things start getting a bit too heated. If you attack enough guys in quick succession, it will build up the Slo-Mo meter, which when activated will slow down time to a crawl, matrix-stylee, should you be unfortunate enough to catch a stray bullet. It feels cool to enter a room full of Stone's gun wielding goons, and then phasing a couple of times to appear behind the thugs, ready to knock them out with just a few swift punches. 6 feet may not sound like much, but you can chain the teleport up to 5 times in a row, allowing you to cover great distances quickly. Shifty can phase-jump about 6 feet in any direction, through walls, doors and even incoming bullets. Shifty doesn't have a huge arsenal of firearms to blast through his foes, and instead focuses on quick combo brawling combined with the game's main mechanic teleportation. Shifty has to steal some Mega Plutonium from the Chairman, and is given various vague instructions from agent Nyx as he progresses up the tower, clearing out each floor of thugs and henchmen as he goes. Shifty is a fast action paced game, focusing more on spectacle than narrative. As far as story goes, that is about as much as you get, and in reality, it's all you need, as Mr. ![]() The building is operated by the very colourful Chairman Stone, the game's antagonist who rules the thug-filled tower with an iron-fist. Shifty, we are tasked with the mission of breaking into the world's most secure facility, the foreboding Olympus Tower. Created by a team of ex Fruit Ninja developers from Halfbrick Studios, this is Team Shifty's debut title. Shifty is a top-down action game very similar to 2012's Hotline Miami, at least aesthetically.
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