Let the games begin...

We all know that life as a fighter is a life lived in danger, and one lived in honor and glory as well, and stickmen can’t get enough of it. Many games and animations have been done for them like the Xiao Xiao and Castle series, and this one game certainly blends with the stickmen’s hall of awesomeness. ElectricMan 2 HS is one tournament fighting game to lend your skills and time into.

You will instinctively know that this game would be intense and fast-paced the moment you hear that background music. When you start a new game, you are quickly brought to the character creation screen where you can pick the name and aura color of your character. You would then also be choosing a difficulty level, and I recommend normal for the new players because of the balance in the enemies’ fighting skill; not too shabby, but not Chuck Norris either.

You will then proceed to the Voltagen training course, where you will learn all the fight moves that you’ll be using later. Once you’ve done and memorized all of them, the rest is up to you. We shall then experience the real heat of battle.

The enemies aren’t arranged according to strength, but rather by their numbers. You will first be fighting two enemies, then three, four, and so on until you’ll be running around rampant just to avoid being hit although it really is very hard to evade and attack at the same time if you are surrounded with hostile martial artists and luckily, everyone gets hit by a punch if they are close together. You’ll be encountering many obstacles in your path to the title of champion, like Replicants, The Frozen, Cirrian Guards and more, and you’ll be fighting them in their own territories, making the battles more exciting and unique. Fortunately for you, they don’t have special techniques or fatal moves, but they still outnumber you and this could mean death if you aren’t careful. The enemies aren’t very strategic when attacking and they mostly just charge at you with arms and feet hungry for a senseless clobbering of stick faces, although some of them may opt to stay away if they feel that their health are being continuously beat out of them. Beware if they surround you, because if you get hit by all of them simultaneously, well, game over for you. You can still attack them though, by pressing the kick button you’ll be kicking them in the head while having some sweet airtime.

The coolest feature of the game is probably the slow motion attacks. You’ll be doing some awesome punch and kick combos normally, but the slow-mo moves are a lot better and deals more damage. The slow motion throw is also the best way to finish someone off, pull the enemy into the air, then blast him away with a non-forgiving kick that sends him flying to the edge of the screen at the speed of sound (approximately).

All who have finished would be grateful for a sequel of Electricman2HS, hopefully with better looking punch-kick combinations of kung fu and better overall visual appeal. Yet this game is already good as it is.