The game uses pixel art very reminiscent of SNES games. The fighting is all controlled automatically but seeing the action is fairly rewarding itself. Again as mentioned before the feeling of finally beating a hard boss and seeing your character get stronger is the main appeal of this game and that it does well. The fun in the combat is not the actual combat but rather seeing your fighter improve in skill by the training you do. Combat is also a very passive activity instead of selecting which attack to do when you only select skills at the beginning of each round and just watch them play out. Sometimes the game can tend to take a while certainly since everything is very passive but most of the time it moves fluently and never really manages to feel like a drag. The grind is basically what the entire game is made of but Lazy Bear Studios manages to almost hit that perfect pacing. There is a clear sense of progression and seeing your house become your personal gym or being able to buy more stuff is a satisfying feeling that could be compared to grinding to a certain level or equipping the right gear to fight a boss you lost to multiple times to now beat him with much less effort. Players can buy workout gear for at home so they don’t have to pay to train at the gym and as soon as other jobs arise you will be able to buy potions which temporarily increase stats or more expensive food which fills your hunger gauge more. Here is where the games management shines there is a delicate balance that needs to be kept in order for your fighter to actually improve. On top of all that at the end of the day your fighter will lose a certain amount of points they gained in training. Food costs money which you have to earn working and sleeping makes time pass without earning money or working out. Training can’t be done forever since your fighter needs sleep and food in order to train. The player can train these stats by working out at home or in the gym. Strength, stamina and agility are the three main stats in the game. In order for your fighter to do good in fights, you will need to train them in three different skills. The player controls a unnamed fighter who they will have to maintain. Punch Club might look like a beat em’ up or a fighting game but in all actuality Punch Club is a management game.
The story is nothing special bt the cutscenes look really nice.
That being said, there is no excuse as to how flaccid, lackluster and abrupt the ending is. Punch Club shouldn’t be played for its story but rather for its gameplay.
The game doesn’t care at all about the story and instead just wants to make some fun characters all of which are based on character tropes for better or worse. The game is filled with nods to things like the Rocky movies, Double Dragon and even Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The game doesn’t really bother to make an interesting story and rather focuses on references and jokes it can make based on popular mediums that use boxing or fighting as its main plot. After getting in a fight with some thugs, a man named Mick sees potential in you becoming the world champion of an unspecific fighting sport. Years pass and you decide to become stronger and find out who your father’s killer is. The game starts off with you as a little kid seeing your father get murdered in cold blood on the streets. It gives Punch Club an interesting perspective of a style that’s usually associated with skill and reflexes. Instead Fight Club decides to take a more strategic approach to fighting and more importantly the training that’s involved with these kind of sports. It’s about fighting and martial arts sports but it’s not a fighting game or any game that requires quick reflexes or well-timed button inputs.
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