There’s no single-player campaign, nor are there unlockables. You can’t pick which levels you’ll play on, and stats aren’t tracked, so you can’t see, for instance, which character has been killed the most often (which would be fun to know). The option menus outside of these modes are thin. We set the “sudden death” timer as low as it would go and have found that a round has never lasted long enough to trigger it. None of them require much fundamental rethinking of how the game is played, and “golden boomerang” is generally less fun than the more straightforward deathmatches offered by the other two, which really hone in on what the game does well-fast, aggressive little matches. There are three modes-free-for-all, team fights, and a mode where you’re all fighting to grab and hold onto the “golden boomerang” the longest. “The carrot’s pulling ahead,” one of us might conspiratorially say to the other before a round, “we should focus on them” (only to, of course, betray each other the moment the opportunity arose). Having more players is especially fun when we started to form vendettas against specific enemies. For most of my playtime for this review, I played with my partner, initially testing everything one-on-one before ultimately realising that it’s a bit more fun with more players and adding bots in.

Up to six players can jump in, and you can populate your matches with bots. That’s about as complicated as the game gets. You can hold down the throw button to aim your boomerang more accurately, and if it hits a snag after a throw and doesn’t come back right away, holding down the throw button will bring it back-potentially killing any opponents it hits along the way. You can dash to avoid enemies and jump over gaps, collect power-ups that grant you new abilities, and parry in-coming attacks with a well-timed slash. The characters all sport adorable, charming designs, which makes slicing them in half (and staying alive yourself) all the more viscerally satisfying. You can either throw it or slice at them from up close, and when you kill an opponent, they split in half like a Fruit Ninja watermelon. Boomerang Fuīoomerang Fu is a multiplayer party title in which you, playing as an animated piece of food or drink, run around arenas trying to slice up your opponents with your boomerang.

This is a game designed to be accessible, fast, and fun, one that you can get a new player into immediately, best enjoyed in quick bursts rather than over marathon sessions. The more I play it, the clearer it becomes that there’s not a whole heap of depth to it beyond what you can learn in those 30 seconds-but that doesn’t matter. You can opt-in for a single practice round first if you’re joined by new players, and that’s all they’ll need.īoomerang Fu’s basic mechanics take, at most, 30 seconds to learn. Couch co-op games can benefit immensely from an immediate hook, a gameplay system that can be picked up on fast and can be taught to new players regardless of their familiarity with the controller in their hands.īoomerang Fu has that, presenting you with its four straightforward, single-button mechanics-move, dash, slash and throw your boomerang-on the opening screen of each match.

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