These fights are greatly improved by the game’s style, the voxel-based models allow for localised damage, faces can be smashed, arms/hands chopped, throats stabbed etc. When everything kicks off and works, I felt like I was Colin Firth in the middle of the church melee in Kingsman: The Secret Service, or Iko Uwais in any of the harrowing prison fight scenes during The Raid II. A failed run meant that I would strategize as to where I needed to go to pick up better gear, or for better ways to bottle neck enemies and give myself an advantage. The way the game allowed me to improvise with the weapons (paying in mind that nothing lasted more than a few hits before breaking) and using judicious use of the kick and punches when nothing came to hand made me feel like I was living by the seat of my pants. Scenarios was probably my favourite mode.
#PAINT THE TOWN RED SWITCH FULL#
This mode is utterly delightful, there are multiple variants on each (it can be turned it into Super Hot where people only move at full speed when the player does) and various parameters can be changed to make it harder or easier.
Each scenario quickly degenerates into complete carnage, with the player grabbing anything they can find and throwing/swinging/stabbing it at anyone that comes near them. The NPC’s are generally indiscriminate and start picking up items and beating anyone and everyone over the head with it. In each of these the player will enter the area, wander around it, then instigate a fight which results in chaos erupting among everyone in the environment. Scenarios is spread across multiple settings – Biker Bar, Discotheque, Pirate cove – and requires the player to survive an improv single player battle royale. The player gets access to punches, a special move, power moves that require building up meter, and any items that are scattered around to complete their tasks. The style is voxel based leading to a blocky style with a large amount of versatility. Paint the Town Red is a first-person brawler, with a roguelite side option. Well, I was incredibly wrong about first impressions. The background graphics seemed basic, and the characters are square headed stick figures that don’t seem like they have a lot of articulation. The main menu had a slab of solid music, but the menus were uninspiring and a little confusing – I wasn’t sure whether to start with ‘Scenarios’, ‘Beneath’ or ‘Arena’ as none of them were clearly denoted as ‘main game’. Paint the Town Red is not much at first glance.
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