The Karate Kid Street Rumble Review (PlayStation 5)
The Karate Kid Street Rumble Review, Experience the adventures of the original The Karate Kid trilogy like never before while facing the challenges put forth by Cobra Kai and other foes. Brawl through 12 levels inspired by the films, including Topanga Beach, West Valley High, Cobra Kai Dojo, the All Valley Tournament, and more!
The Karate Kid Street Rumble Review Pros:
- Decent pixel art graphics.
- 360.2MB download size.
- Platinum trophy.
- Game settings – vibration, and screenshake.
- The opening level does do tutorial pop-ups.
- The How To Play section shows all combos and attacks.
- Four-player local co-op multiplayer.
- There are four playable characters – Daniel Larusso, Kumiko, Ali Mills, and Mr Miyagi.
- Five difficulties – Easy, medium, hard, very hard, and no mercy.
- Every level shows the objectives along with each character’s best score and time.
- 2.5D brawler gameplay.
- Earn experience and level up to gain new abilities and attacks.
- Each character earns their own exp and unlocks.
- You see enemy health bars.
- Combo counter that rewards bonus points.
- Build up your ability bar to do a stronger attack.
- Dodge also has a time-it-right for a perfect dodge bonus.
- Many Breakable objects can contain food for health or boosts to your ability bar etc.
- End-of-level boss fights.
- In-game cutscenes and character interactions with occasional cartoon-like art screens with speech bubbles.
- You can grab and throw enemies at each other.
- Four unlockable modes – Mini games, boss rush, endless mode, and arcade mode.
- The mini-games are fun, you play against Ai in single-player and as a group in multiplayer. They all range from rhythm action style to reflex-based.
- More fun with other players.
- Pays homage to a lot of the movies in a variety of ways from locations to story beats, and costumes.
The Karate Kid Street Rumble Review Cons:
- Very slow-paced game.
- You cannot remap the controls.
- The cutscenes in the game just have all the characters show up and say what needs to be done and then move on, it doesn’t make sense when you are a character not yet in the story.
- The initial variety of attacks is boring and basic.
- Earning exp is slow.
- The balance of the game difficulties feels up and down.
- Huge difficulty spikes in boss fights.
- The game has the same enemy characters over and over.
- You spend nearly every level fighting Johnny.
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The Karate Kid Street Rumble:
Developer: Odaclick Game Studio
Publisher: GameMill
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