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Coffee Crisis
Coffee Crisis is an arcade-style beat 'em up full of caffeinated carnage! This is a full scale release for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, packed with classic gameplay and an extra espresso shot of action!
Details
- Released
- February 23, 2017
- Developer
- Mega Cat Studios
- Genres
- Fighting · Hack and slash/Beat 'em up · Indie · Arcade
- Publisher
- Zerouno Games, e360 Technologies, Qubic Games, Mega Cat Studios
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Coffee Crisis Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
Well, these aliens know exactly how to hit us where it hurts! Grab a friend and play as two baristas saving the world from the evil Smurglians! With beans and boiling water, lay waste to your enemies and save earth's good musicians! A retro brawler that falls into a few retro pitfalls, this goofy game is well worth the price for some caffeinated insanity!
Just hearing the title Coffee Crisis, you’d be forgiven for assuming that this game is a restaurant sim in which you prepare and serve cups of joe to impatient coffee-shop patrons. No, in this case, Mega Cat Studios has served up more of a 90s-style beat-em-up for Switch fans, a side-scrolling action game in the style of the old SEGA Genesis classics like Golden Axe. Playing the game, I was personally taken back to my many, many hours of fun playing Double Dragon in the gelato shop near my school when I was supposed to be in Math class. And that is a good thing (the Double Dragon part, not the...
Coffee Crisis is a great throwback to arcade beat ‘em ups of the early '90s. Its 16-bit aesthetic screams retro Sega, though we would’ve preferred a traditional chiptune soundtrack truly reminiscent of the Mega Drive, rather than the heavy rock score the developers have opted for. This doesn’t take away from the polished style and traditional gameplay, however. Combined with the quirky story and indie humour, this promises a great time.
Coffee Crisis is an arcade-style beat-'em-up that pays homage to the '90s era of classic arcade and 16-bit brawlers.
Coffee Crisis takes the interesting concept of the classic beat ‘em up with a metal and coffee theme and attempts to run with it, only to trip over itself with a questionable implementation of modifiers that can’t be selected normally, as well as bare-bones combat. All of the pieces of a quality beat ‘em up are present in this game, but it’s not quite put together yet.