KickBeat Steam Edition

If you're reading this you might be wondering: "What the hell is a Kickbeat?" Kickbeat is a rythym game where you press keys, timed with the music, so your character kicks people in the face. I like to call these games (FFR, Stepmania 1,2, Beatmanina) tap rythym games. Because there's no instrument or dance pad. It's meant to be played with a controller or keyboard. I personally had been waiting for a game like...

33 found this helpful, 2014-01-22

It's an interesting idea that feels incomplete. This is a standard push the buttons with the music rhythm game. instead of the note highway or scrolling indicators this title uses a radial format combined with a fighting game aesthetic. Fighters enter the combat zone and rotate around you until moving to strike from one of the four cardinal directions and you press the corisponding button to stop them. There are 3...

217 found this helpful, 2014-01-20

A very cool idea that needed better execution. For the first little while, on very low difficulties, it seemed like a lot of fun. Mixing a rhythm game with a beat 'em up is something that could have worked great, but rather than try to create some sort of unique gameplay style instead it's pretty much just a cluttered, gaudy version of DDR. The visual design is extremely messy, often obscuring the intended button...

24 found this helpful, 2015-06-03

The game has a few glaring issues, one of the pervasive themes being that it sacrifices engaging the user for theatrics. The songs are frequently interrupted by 1 of 7 little cinematic attacks to give the player a little break. The levels visuals supercede the enemies (this is especially an issue with the first stage as the bright red glowing background overlaps the enemies, making it more difficult to discern...

7 found this helpful, 2019-02-10

I recommend this game to anyone who is really good at and loves button driven rhythm games. In some ways it is simpler than 2D rhythm battler games, and in other ways it is more complex. Here is what you need to know: +Multiple modes open up after playing more of the story, including being able to play your own music, though... -The controls for picking music are weak and I don't recall any auto BPM features, so...

3 found this helpful, 2021-12-02

this game reminds me of the Keep the beat like games like Parapa the rappa back on the PS1 ah good times any way this game ROCKS the story is decent with nice art work the gameplay is solid with flashy graphics and simple and easy to understand controls and the Music just so Awesome HOWEVER this game has a rather high difficulty curve and the turtoral won't really help out much as this game has very fast pace...

19 found this helpful, 2014-11-09