I'm no stranger to playing shit games, but Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn is just awful in every possible way. There are "funny bad" games like Ride to Hell and whatever, but then there are games like this; games that are so brainless in design and bland to play, topped off with horrid writing to make a monotonous experience that isn't fun on either side of the "good" or "bad" scale.
Shaq Fu 2 is just really manufactured in feel, to a point that it feels as if there's no passion behind it. Despite a few okay pieces of decent art production and that the game actually functions (despite many bugs and a soft-crash I had mid-way through the game), there's nothing going for it.
The gameplay is so repetitive, the story so uninteresting, the characters so poorly written and performed, as well as the game's absolutely terrible sense of humor. In a game that's only around 3 hours to finish, you'll hear countless racist jokes against Chinese people, homophobic jokes, and even a few splashes of transphobic humor; amazing.
For a game that's the whole purpose was to "reinvigorate" the meme of the long-gone fighting game from the 90s, this shitty beat-em-up game does nothing to keep it alive, which might just be a good thing.
Also, big middle finger to the devs/publisher that walked back on the multitude of features the game was supposed to have including co-op play, vs, and so much more.
Also, while I'm here, the screenshots used for the background images on Backloggd at the time of writing are from a completely different build of the game. The version we got in real life looks much, much worse.
Shaq Fu 2 is just really manufactured in feel, to a point that it feels as if there's no passion behind it. Despite a few okay pieces of decent art production and that the game actually functions (despite many bugs and a soft-crash I had mid-way through the game), there's nothing going for it.
The gameplay is so repetitive, the story so uninteresting, the characters so poorly written and performed, as well as the game's absolutely terrible sense of humor. In a game that's only around 3 hours to finish, you'll hear countless racist jokes against Chinese people, homophobic jokes, and even a few splashes of transphobic humor; amazing.
For a game that's the whole purpose was to "reinvigorate" the meme of the long-gone fighting game from the 90s, this shitty beat-em-up game does nothing to keep it alive, which might just be a good thing.
Also, big middle finger to the devs/publisher that walked back on the multitude of features the game was supposed to have including co-op play, vs, and so much more.
Also, while I'm here, the screenshots used for the background images on Backloggd at the time of writing are from a completely different build of the game. The version we got in real life looks much, much worse.