Jump kick: how to beat any brawler.

To call this video a review is underrated. This is a documentary! Mighty well done, mate!

Thanks St1ka for this fantastic review/ interview. Love the humor, enjoyed every bit of it.

Man, a 46-min St1ka video? And it's still super high-quality stuff, including interviews with developers? Damn, dude - going above and beyond for this! (^-^)

great video man and I appreciate you getting in touch with the devs

Welp. I learned a lot, I heard kick ass music, and interviews. A+

Great review my friend, to be honest it’s still all sinking in. It was great to work on the soundtrack along with some great friends.

Trevin (Jredd) was the perfect guy to work with as we could always come up with ideas.  Seriously without his help this soundtrack wouldn’t have been half as good.

Tiido really did an amazing job with the tools that we used for composing the soundtrack, adding whatever new features we asked for.

Tulio because in all honesty I don’t think we would have got very far without his positive attitude, help with giving us so much early on and great feedback along the way.

Luis is also a really great guy who helped inspire with his incredible skills. One of the best things about music is sometimes all it takes is one piece of really cool art to inspire something really wicked.

Fonzie, I’ve always had time for Fonzie and he’s always been fair to me. Not long ago many people thought the project was dead in the water but I always had faith that somehow he would make things work. Sure some of his methods and the way he approaches things are different from the way most of us would do things. But at the end of the day he did manage to pull this ambitious game off which is no small feat.

Thanks again for the great review and I hope everyone else who plays the game enjoys what we have created.

Sounds like this Fonzie guy really jumped the shark.

Great video, dude.  Your hard work paid off!

Great review man. Best review I’ve seen of this game. Super thorough, fair, and I believe honest. Thankyou for this.

Great review, I LOVE this game. Easily one of the best beat em ups for the Genesis/Mega Drive and honestly one of the Top 10 I have played across all systems. I am glad I got the original clamshell version, but it's kinda cool that it's so unique.

Such great significant details about the CPU cooperative player... KUDOS for the amazing video pal :D

Makes me wonder...if the mystery game that Watermelon Games is working is related to the Shockwave Supersonic Squad postcard

Best Paprium review on YT. Appreciate the video. Good stuff.

glad you still putting effort to make these videos my mang. I really think you deserve a much larger view count, but I hope you keep on trucking regardless.

I think the most interesting thing about this game from a gameplay perspective is that it's very clear with the hit collision/hit stop that it more so resembles Golden Axe than Streets of Rage 2 in a lot of ways.  Like, if you watch Golden Axe on the Sega Genesis when an enemy goes into a kneeling state, the hit concept is the same as a lot of context actions in Paprium.  So not just the mounts, which were mentioned in the video, but just the odd, floaty collisions.  I know that it's clear that there are "proper" attacks to use when enemies are in certain states, such as stun.  It's just straddling an odd line between the tighter or more prominent hit stun of Streets of Rage games and then wanting varying states of animation and how that emphasizes fidelity and adds visual variety to the action.  

The thing is that by prioritizing having so many enemies on the screen and not showing restraint, what you get is a frenetic game where it isn't just that enemies can't react to jump kicks but that it's clear that having that many enemies on screen draws attention to how certain options are more strategically sensible than others.  It has concepts more akin to a musou/Dynasty Warriors game and fighting huge waves of cannon fodder.  Alien vs Predator on the CPS2 has very acrobatic combat for the sake of accommodating large waves of enemies.  By emulating SOR2 but using the enemy saturation of games that play much differently, I think you arrive at jump kicking being preferable to putting yourself at risk like blocking and having less favorable escape options.

The choreography of the game looks pretty tedious, but I think that the idea of just emphasizing traversal mitigates that.  The problem is that by releasing on the Mega Drive alone, as a "premium product", there's no flexibility in terms of ever refining this.  Say what you will of Early Access games, but I think the "a la carte" model puts a lot of strain on developers that make a lot of features based promises before considering the design of the game in action.  This is no slight on the various team members, I think saying someone has ambition is extremely frustrating when their reach extends their grasp.  

I like the soundtrack a lot, but other than liking action games and making some crude observations, I'm more than likely never going to play Paprium.  And it's not something I really lament, rather I just think it's a moment to say that I think Paprium might have a very distinct level of drama but there's sadly nothing exceptional about this kind of crowdfunding design.

Awesome review! Thanks a lot!

Hey, thanks for the mention and great review!

Back in 2019-01-27, when you made your first video on Paprium, did you think you would be holding a copy of it today, or did you think the game was dead?

Also wanted to say, this is the best review of the game! But your reviews are always on point haha