5 reviews
Asterix & Obelix: Slap Them All!
Romans, pirates and boars beware! The famous Gauls Asterix and Obelix are coming back for a brand new adventure! Unlike the magic potion, the gameplay recipe is pretty straight forward and holds no secrets. Think about the core mechanics defining the beat’em up genre and sprinkle with some local co-op! By Jupiter, by Teutates.. These Gauls are cra...
Details
- Released
- December 1, 2021
- Developer
- Mr Nutz Studio
- Genres
- Fighting · Hack and slash/Beat 'em up · Arcade
- Publisher
- Microids
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A Brief History The Adventures of Asterix first appeared in the Franco-Belgian comic Pilote in 1959, since then many adaptations have been made be it comics,
For as much as I liked playing Asterix & Obelix XXL 2 on the Switch a few years ago, that was still a remaster of an older and quite janky game. I was hoping for Microids to fund and publish something else, something brand new for the current (or last, depending on your perspective) generation of consoles. Asterix & Obelix: Slap Them All is exactly that. It’s more than just your run-of-the-mill licensed game. While flawed (and we’ll touch on that in this review), I don’t think anyone el...
Asterix and Obelix: Slap Them All! is a game I would play with my younger siblings. It is a simplistic brawler that becomes repetitive after going through a few acts, but has great visuals and shows the surprising amount of charm such an old series carries today. There are certainly better beat-em-up options out there, but I did find this game more fun than the recent Battletoads, so I think that says something.
It’s a wonderful title to introduce new players to the beat ‘em up genre!
Slap Them All is by no means perfect. It’s shallow, even by genre standards, lacks the all-but mandatory four-player option, has been balanced for two players to the point that it doesn’t really work as a single-player game, and fails to give players any reason to give it a second go once powered through. And yet at the same time, it is the best use of the beloved Asterix & Obelix property that we have seen in years and for us long-suffering Asterix & Obelix fans, for that reason alone Slap Them All is a gift.