A Few Quick Matches turns the combo-filled energy of stick figure throwdowns into a platform fighter for up to four combatants.
I am not sure I want to know how many hours my buddies and I spent watching stick figures duke it out in the most elaborate fights I’ve ever seen put to video. The creativity that went into these videos is unreal and I only hope that the folks who made them went into fight choreography in some way. That proud tradition of making stick figures stomp each other continues today (this one involving battles with math is incredible), but this time you’ll be the one deciding how the fight goes with your friends.
There are three available fighters – a fighter with a sword, a wizard, and an archer (with another character on the way). That might sound lean, but these characters offer a wide array of acrobatic moves that naturally loan themselves to freeform combos (although I’m sure there are optimal ones I’m missing out on). It feels downright natural to go from one hit into another (most hits can be cancelled into air dashes for utter nonsense combos), pursuing your opponent with sword swipes and stabs or magical blasts that keep knocking them ever-closer to the pits on the side. And like the stick figure fight videos, it all look so smooth and sharp that you’re definitely going to want to play with your buddies just so you can have an audience for the things you do.
A Few Quick Matches offers some great, deep combo-based platform fighting either online (with rollback!) or with people in person. I still feel like these flashy, spectacular combos and turnabouts demand an audience of friends in your home to cheer and scream, but however you can play it, you need to grab this fighter.
A Few Quick Matches is available now on Steam.
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