City of Fury - 9 Card Beat 'em Up

hi i'm barney skinner and i'm going to give you a quick run-through of my game city of fury which is my entry to the board game geek nine card contest this year 2022 um and as you can probably tell immediately it's an homage to sort of classic beat-em-up games like streets of rage double dragon that sort of thing um in this game i am playing as a vigilante in this case i'm playing as max iceberg over here there's another character you can play as well um and i've got to beat up everyone who comes as the screen will keep scrolling to the right oops not the camera and and try and finally get to the final boss who's called boss man if i can beat him or win the game to do that i have four skills here each which has four power levels um and during the game these power levels go up and down as i try and build up power to get on certain skills to get to get to the stronger effects um after i've taken my actions the enemies will go and i'll just run through it and you'll pick it up very very quickly so first term um i've got six health this guy mech has four health and sin over here has three you can use a paper clip to track the health and it's actually a lot better but i haven't got the paper clips at the moment so i've just put a dice on them for now um the reason why it will become apparent quite quickly when i start moving the cards around so what am i going to do at first um what i want to do i think first of all is try and get as close as possible to mech here but then sim's going to jump out and punch me anyway um so i can either shoot and then move i think i'm going to dodge first which allows me to do two moves which is this joystick action here when i perform an action i reset the skill to the minimum level perform the action from left to right so two moves which is going to move me to here as you can see immediately widely dice it it's not as good as the paperclip um which is moving right up to next room but i don't get to do any attacks this time i can then boost two of my skills um i'm gonna boost my punch and i'm gonna boost my dodge back up again okay it's now the enemy's turn and the enemies go activate from left to right so the left most enemy and each when they ever activate they always use the box that's closest to the vigilante so if they're to my right they'll use their left hand box here if they were over here they would use the european boxes so mec is gonna go first he's gonna shoot but because i'm next to him he can't hit me he's then gonna push me away and then you're gonna jump backwards which means you're gonna swap places with sin here sin then will not activate and we'll jump forward and punch me jump forward and punch or kick in her case so i lose a health okay next turn i didn't really think that one through it i think it's difficult to play while i'm trying to narrate this as well um i'm gonna use my punch skill i think um to double punch sin so which allows me to do one move which i'll move to swap places with sin it's not going to make a huge difference because she's going to leave her in fact i'm not actually i'm not i'm not going i've already done it carry on doesn't matter um and then i do two punches which will reduce her health to one i can then boost two of my skills i'll boost my punch again and i'll boost my dodge because i'm gonna need some healing quite soon and my dodge skill is the one that allows me to heal for this character um the other character has a different layout here so it has sort of different puzzle okay enemies turn sin will jump and then punch me so again swapping these cards back which is again once again as you can see yeah that's not ideal so that reduces my health to four machines on health yeah again paper clips much better in fact i might just stop putting these dice underneath the cards makes it a bit easier um so she's trying to punch me and then neck here will shoot it's me going well push but i'm not next to him and then jump backwards but he can't okay next round um still can't be in a position to uh what i want to do is get next to mech here um but also hits in and i haven't got enough actions to do that i should have boosted my kick that was silly oh well never mind if i boosted my kick i could have done two moves and a punch getting rid of seeing them standing here stop nick shooting me but never mind um i will instead um i will do my kick anyway switch we'll again swap places with sin and punch her to death i will boost up my punch and my dodge because i'm gonna need some healing in a minute i'm about to get hit again mech shoots me again pushes but i'm not next to him and jumps back so now we are um we come to the scrolling phase which only happens when the dead card place that card face down to the right here the leftmost card becomes a new enemy over here and this is how we get through the level until we get to this cafe bar here which is where the final boss boss man uh hangs out however judging by where things are going right now i don't think i'm gonna get there i think i'm in trouble here um so i'll use my dodge skill which will allow me to go move move and then heal twice up to four health um and i'm gonna boost my punch and my dodge okay enemy turn mek is not going to shoot because he's now on this side so he'll jump and then move backwards so he jumps over me and then moves backwards but larry's in the way so he doesn't move any further larry will then push but i'm not next to him does nothing move backwards and shoot me hmm okay i think i'm going to take out larry because he's annoying me because he can hurt me pretty much every turn otherwise yeah so i'm going to use my punch skill which this is the level i want me to move then do three punches so i'm going to move to here again do three punches taking out larry and i'm going to boost my dodge and my punch as you can see we're again um going to be rolling the screen will be wrong again this time but mac's going to go first he's going to go jump over me and then move on backwards back to here okay screen's gonna roll uh an ipod some old technology right there old dangerous technology that's gonna hurt me every turn problematic okay i'm not in a good position here i don't think i'm playing very well right now gotta be honest um i don't have anything that allows me to move and punch i haven't really i thought this one through i should have used my kick instead never mind i got to use my dodge you know i can really limit mech is keep on getting his right ipod i can't really do anything to limit but never mind um yeah so if i use my dodge that will allow me to move twice then heal so i'll be here healed up one enemy's turn mech will again jump back behind me and move backwards bipods in the way ipod will punch but i'm not next to it but then we'll shoot me for one so basically the ipod just causes one damage on you whatever you do so you need to take it out pretty quickly but it's only got two health um and in terms of boosting i'm going to boost my punch and dodge punching and dodging this game it's not going well so far so i may need to uh rethink my strategy at some point but we'll see um let's do what two more enemies to get through before i even get to boss man okay let's so punching i think is the right thing to do here where again i'm going to move to here swap places with mech and punch ipod for two hits taking it out and then boost my dodge and my probably my shoot actually i think no no no no problem about my punch again here okay mech again swaps places runs back to here and then the screen rolls i'm still on camera yes oh our bot real cyborg heavy around this okay what can i do again getting between them is a good place to be because neither can hit me there so i need to do two moves to do that well that means using my dodge skin again which allow me to do two moves and heal up one i'll keep knocking these dice because again paper clips are much better idea okay um i'm gonna boost up my dodge and my my punch okay so oh and i see i haven't really thought this one through hell because i've looked and gone oh if i'm between them they won't hurt me but unfortunately they don't act simultaneously so mech's going to go first and he's going to swap places with me and then he's going to push me away oh no no sorry swap basically me and then move backwards um but he got moved backwards our bot is now going to be able to shoot me didn't think that one through never mind and then robot jumps forwards right this is not good i think i fear i might lose this game i've got to be honest um it's difficult to see always i can avoid losing this now okay so yeah okay so punching here's the right move i think so which again we can move then two punches so move forward again from between the two of them two punches to our bot i'm going to boost my dodge and my punch again i'm not really using the other two skills much he's probably almost my mistake um our bot is going to try and throw me that way which is going to work then you're going to shoot me take me down two health then mec is gonna swap us back again jump back behind me okay you can see they kind of throw you around the place a bit as well which makes it difficult to track where you're going to end up particularly two characters that can throw you in opposite directions um okay so this round i think just doing my punch skill do two damage one kills r hot and then finally a little bit of damage to mech and i'll boost my dodge and my shoot try something slightly different okay so then mech goes shoots which does nothing next to me then throws me away pushes me away and then jumps backwards but there's nowhere to go screen rolls let's move them a second because i can go off camera rash okay that's fine he's a just a punchy guy and he can't really do much while he's stuck behind someone so that's quite good give me a bit of a breather actually as long as they stay next to mac he's what he can do is push me away each turn oh no he's not because i was going to jump back behind rash or then punch me twice yeah that's no good that's no good at all i've missed that for that one okay i'm going to dodge yeah i'm going to just move away am i no that's where i am do i no because i'll still get hit by somewhere i'm going to move away and heal up twice let's choose my dodge i'm going to boost my punch and my dodge okay let me turn mac shoots me for a while pushes but i'm not next to him and then jumps backwards which puts a rash there rash punches steps forwards and punches again but i'm not in range yet okay what am i gonna do what i'm going to do is take some damage i think hmm no i think i'm definitely taking damage this term now what i'm like i think i'm in real trouble i'm convinced i'm not getting the uh i'm not really getting around to taking out that mech it's really annoying me so do i shoot this turn but if i shoot this thing i'll take two damage which is not good if i dodge this turn i can take one damage and that doesn't really have helps me any better though trying where i'll leave my next turn but it's very difficult to think that far ahead um i'm going to i'm gonna shoot screw it shoot two damage to mech okay um i'm gonna boost up my dodge and my punch okay so rash punches steps forwards and punches again mech shoots i'm down to one health pushes and jumps back not much there okay oh how i should have posted the wrong thing here really down i think i've lost much just lost myself again i should have boosted my sheet which would allow me to take out mech and get out of rash's way but oh well um so i think my only chance of not dying now then is dodging this turn which allows me to go dodge dodge healing up one um and i'm gonna boost my no yeah a lot of work i don't think it's a way out this time now gotta be honest i think i'm in trouble i think next round i'm gonna lose now if i lose my shoot and my punch it might be okay we'll see rash is going to jump jump and meg is going to shoot me again down to one half push and jump back does nothing next round um yeah i'm going to shoot so i'm going to finally kill matt who's been causing me so much trouble and move to here and that means me standing precariously on one health next to this guy who's a real pain so his turn is gonna jump jump back to here and then the screen the screen will roll i'm gonna move everything across so that they don't disappear too far reeling boss man okay i've made it to boss man but so what i have to do now is defeat boss man and i will win unfortunately i've got no chance of doing that okay so which two skills that i boost um i don't think it matters i think boss man's gonna shoot me twice or whatever i do yeah there's no way out of this for me i'm afraid i'm going down the blaze of glory so i'll boost those two skills anyway for a laugh all right next round i'm gonna no matter what i do unless i can get to here but even then unless i can get behind the boss man i mean he's just gonna lose health against boss man pretty much every round unless you find a way to get him trapped and i can't so i'm gonna be in trouble so i'm going to have to i'm gonna i mean i've lost this round anyway whatever i do so i'm gonna step forward and punch rash out so at least claim some sort of moral victory before boss man they never to be shoots me doesn't matter which two skills i boost he shoots me dead [Music] unfortunately i don't have a coin to insert to continue so that's a very quick run through of city of fury in this case city of um infuriating because i lost uh but never mind probably played it wrong better as well because it's difficult um i may have forgotten the charging one or the thing that's got that a little bit wrong because it's difficult while i'm uh talking about them paying full attention to the game um so yeah this is my entry to the nine card contest this year uh it has this really nifty um cassette case rule set that you can look at that you can print off that contains all the rules in a consistent next sort of cassette case format which can go in the uh and all of the uh cards and cubes and things can fit it can fit in the cassette case as well and like i said case it's just broken because that's what i want to do um if you're doing this make sure you get the type of cassette case that doesn't have the two sort of spikes here because you're not going to sell many cards with those anyway um yeah so that's that's uh that's pretty much the game um after the contest i'm probably thinking about doing some expansions um maybe sort of um enemy to drop weapons or power-ups uh maybe sort of a next level going over a bridge or down a sewer or or something like that and at some point i'm gonna do a uh sort of a fantasy spin-off i think called a sword of fury which will get sort of a golden axe rip-off or something um but anyway um i find it quite fun um it's it's a sort of very puzzly tricky little game because there's almost no randomness apart from the um initial layout of the cards which you do randomly apart from bossman being on the right other than that it's completely a uh a solvable puzzle as it were but uh good luck memorizing every possibility because as you can see i'm not doing that while i don't hear myself um as i mentioned there is another character that you can play out who is um ava love hate here who has a slightly different skills card which rather than having all of her healing is on the dodge it's sort of the end of every track gives you a dodge gives you a heel rather and um but she doesn't have a triple punch which um which max does um so a sort of a different a different sort of play style more shooting bass generally i think um which hopefully gives adds a little bit of variability to the game as well um yeah so that's pretty much it um leave me your thoughts um and when the voting opens please vote for me thanks bye

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Length: 24min 7sec (1447 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 08 2022