This is why, though, you probably never imagined a fighting game featuring crabs. However, if you imagine actual crabs fighting each other, particularly underwater, it kind of makes sense, because crabs aren’t usually seen as agile, nimble creatures. If it sounds clumsy, that’s because it is. Your claws can be controlled independently and you can swing or move in the general direction of your stick or mouse cursor, as well as close your claws around your opponent’s body parts to restrain them, block or cause damage. But I don’t like it when developers pressure you to use a particular control scheme.įight Crab uses a more physics-based system. It should be noted that the game warns you to use a controller, although mouse/keyboard controls are available and you can bind the controls as you like. If you’re used to traditional button combos, like forward-back-forward-attack and the like, you won’t find that here. Most of the time I felt like I was just mashing buttons, hoping my crab would come into contact with some part of my opponent. I actually won a lot, but I don’t really know how I did, which is a bit problematic. This is mainly because I really was struggling to find a sense of strategy for winning. The gameplay however ends up being a mix of fun and frustrating. This game is so far removed from more traditional games that it’s hard not to like it just for that.
I feel like this style makes the most sense, although a part of me did want to see the traditional style, and maybe even have crab fatalities and such, but… nevermind, that’s a bad idea. You win once your opponent is flipped onto their back for a count of three. Instead the developers opted for a Smash Bros-style system where attacking inflicts damage on a percentage meter, and the higher it goes, the easier a crab is to push around and ultimately, flip. Unlike most fighting games, you don’t have a health bar that you deplete to win. The ones where your fighter can cause destruction to the surrounding environment and even use objects like trees and cars as weapons. Right off the bat, this game brings up many images in my mind of the giant monster battles of the PS2/Xbox era of Godzilla fighting games. You can battle one-on-one or two-on-two (online or off), and the campaign mode also offers online two-player co-op. There are many to choose from you can finally fulfill your dream of being a horsehair crab, snow crab, coconut crab, rock crab, or even a lobster or giant mantis shrimp, among several others. Crustaceans, FIGHT!Īs originally alluded, FIGHT CRAB is a 3D fighting game where you play as gigantic crabs.
But still sort of maybe.įight Crab was developed by Calappa Games and published by Playism, and released on Jon Nintendo Switch and Steam ($19.99), the latter of which was played for this review. Are you ready? Let’s go!Īll right, how shall I put this? Do you like tournament fighters? Have you ever asked yourself, “When is someone going to make a game where giant crabs beat the crap out of each other, Godzilla style, with swords, axes, trees, cars, or just claws as weapons?” Do you like pressing buttons? If you answered yes to any of these questions, Fight Crab might maybe possibly be the answer to your crab-fighting fantasies. So I’ll just have to muddle through and see if I can arrange words in a way that can describe this game. But this is a case where both words and emotions, to some degree, fail me.
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