Streets of Rage (quit).
Mass Creation’s Shing! is a side-scrolling beat ’em up in the traditional Streets of Rage mould that valiantly attempts to inject a little originality into the genre by utilizing a unique control scheme which sees player’s attacks assigned to the right thumbstick, rather than the usual button-bashing way of things. It’s an admirable idea and one that possibly could have worked out rather well, if it wasn’t for the fact the game suffers from – amongst other things – a combination of frustrating performance issues, shoddy combat and scrappy enemy placement, resulting in an experience that’ll test your patience more than it will your fighting skills.
Shing! tells the story of a bunch of street-wise fighters, protectors of a mysterious magical object known as the Starseed, who are called into action when a bunch of evil Yokai take off with their charge and won’t give it back. Rude! As far as narratives go, it’s around about the level you’d expect from the side-scrolling beat ’em up genre, but here it manages to annoy more than usual due to the childish, sexist, mind-numbingly unfunny writing involved. In an attempt, we guess, to be edgy and humorous, Shing! decides to write its male characters as chauvinistic, pea-brained idiots, while turning its duo of female fighters into big-boobed sisters who do little more than partake in “bitch-fights” or sit around in swimming pools with their breasts out in the cutscenes that bookend the game’s laborious levels.
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