![]() Running out, though, does result in a rather lengthy and unforgiving cool down, which given the game’s one-shot-and-you’re-dead gameplay, is almost always a death sentence, since if you find yourself needing to teleport around that much, chances are you’re not going to be in a good state when you need several seconds to teleport again. There is a regenerating 5-jump limit, however, but the speed at which it regenerates is so quick that you rarely find yourself running out of teleports. Shifty’s primary ability is a regenerating quick-skip teleportation that instantaneously move him 10 feet away with absolutely no cool-down period, crossing large rooms in no time at all. Shifty, a thief, along with Nyx, Shifty’s eye in the sky, task themselves with stopping him, which is where Mr. The bad guy, whose identity is so unimportant I can neither remember his name nor feel it’s necessary enough to look up for this review, has somehow obtained some “mega plutonium,” and needs to be stopped. You’re attacking a building, there’s a main bad guy, thousands of minions that get tougher and tougher every level, and only you to take them on. It’s as interchangeable as “The President has been kidnapped by ninjas,” and it is handled very tongue-in-cheek. Shifty, but no one hits the arcade looking for the next great American novel. Shifty is a blast to play, an old-school early 90’s arcade style throwback that will have you almost able to hear the sounds of skee ball, hot shot basketball, tickets printing, sirens sounding, and thousands of other little sounds from long rows of other stand-up arcade cabinets, all without having to dig in your pocket desperate for just one more quarter to hit the continue button one more time. I was having so much fun jumping all around the 18 levels that I was willing to sacrifice precious sleep and my own ability to wake up and get to work on time in the morning. Shifty is a top-down arcade-style beat-em-up game, and your main power is quick teleportation. But really, the highest praise I can give it, or any other game for that matter, is that when it was time to stop playing and get back to real adult responsibilities, I really didn’t want to. Shifty by TinyBuild, and most of it is good. It was past midnight, I had work in the morning, and I didn’t want to stop playing Mr. It’s all the arcade beat-em-up fun the 90’s version of you could have asked for, without the need for hand sanitizer after.
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