One Finger Death Punch

One Finger Death Punch is an action game developed and produced by Silver Dollar Games. It was originally released for PC on March 3, 2014^[1] and Xbox 360, then was ported to Android on March 25, 2015^[2] and is also due for a iOS release.^[3] The game has 2 main modes; a campaign and survival mode. In the campaign, the player must navigate a map and beat all of the levels whilst the survival mode has the player fight as long as they can before dying.

Gameplay

In-game screenshot of a boss battle

One Finger Death Punch is a fighting game where players must survive rounds of enemies in the many different stages during the single player story mode and must survive as long as they can during the survival mode. During the story mode, each round has a certain amount of enemies to be killed before the player can progress onto the next round. One Finger Death Punch's control scheme is based about the left and right mouse buttons, on the PC version, players must press the appropriate button to attack the enemies on the corresponding side of their character.

There are 3 difficulty modes both in story mode and in survival mode; student, master and grandmaster. These difficulty levels have an effect on how many enemies there are in each stage, the speed of each round and amount of hit-points that the player has.

There are many different rounds in the story mode that each have different weapons, special requirements and unique elements of gameplay. Boss battles consist of a enemy that required a certain pattern to defeat. Pattern is displayed to the user by bars of blue and red that represent in what order should press the left and right mouse buttons. Missing a button press or pressing the incorrect mouse button will result in the boss hitting the player.

There are a few versions of the survival mode within One Finger Death Punch. Plain survival mode will place the player in a endless Mob Round with some other sections randomly occurring, such as a Light Sword section. Then there's a blind survival mode where the player cannot see the enemies as they approach and can only see the bar on the bottom of the screen telling the player when a enemy is approaching. There is also a third secret mode which the a plain survival mode crossed over with Silver Dollar Game's No Luca No where the player must push away Luca (a cat) from the centre of the screen as the can appears from the left and right side of the screen, blocking the view.

Reception

One Finger Death Punch received positive reviews from critics, picking up on its simple controls, large amount of content and its visual style, however, they picked up on the game's repetitive nature. Erwan Lafleuriel from Gameblog commented on One Finger Death Punch's simple controls by saying that the game was "Easy to learn, but challenging enough to pass many levels with honours". Hooked Gamers's Matt Porter said that people "could even play One Finger Death Punch with one finger", he concluded the review commenting about the simplistic game mechanics with "The depth behind the simplistic control scheme is impressive up to a point, until it all starts to get a bit samey".

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