
If the ball happens to fly around without hitting anybody, you can give it an additional hit (provided you get on the right position) to increase the ball’s velocity – eventually, you’ll have it flying around the stage at impossibly fast speeds, making it incredibly difficult to counter against. You can give the ball a good old whack with a press of Y, aiming more or less in any direction with the control stick. You’ll soon gravitate towards your favourite after a few sessions, but the game remains fair by limiting each character to only one special ability.Īll of the characters have the same basic move sets. You’ll have a choice of more than 10 characters, each of whom displays truly unique characteristics: Candyman looks like a walking emoji and sports a rather fetching cane, Dice has a love of ping pong and wields a suitably apt paddle, and Latch is a crocodile with a huge tail and stylish headphones. It's such a simple premise, but Team Reptile has done a remarkable job in crafting the gameplay to make it accessible for newcomers whilst ensuring veterans have plenty of scope to improve and hone their skills. The aim of the game is to whack an anti-gravity projectile (which, for the sake of simplicity, we'll refer to as a ball from now on) towards your competitors within a confined arena, chipping away at their health until you're the last character standing. It's a bonkers mix of dodgeball and tennis that comes together to form a fresh take on the beat 'em up genre, backed up by a superb soundtrack featuring none other than Hideki Naganuma, famous for his work on the Jet Set Radio series.
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Originally released on PC back in 2018, Lethal League Blaze is a continuation of what developer Team Reptile kicked off in 2014 with Lethal League. Thankfully, Lethal League Blaze does more than enough to avoid getting lost in the eShop ether.

making up a sizeable part of the Switch's fighting roster, newcomers need to either nail basic fighting gameplay with pinpoint precision or introduce a fresh spin on the genre in order to stand out from the crowd.

With gargantuan franchises such as Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter and Smash Bros. Breaking into the beat 'em up genre is a tough ask for any fledgeling title.
