#testpunch

Get ready some competitive action with the ARMS Global Testpunch demo! You’ll be able to play on certain days and times, so mark your calendars for when you can play.

Honestly didn’t expect to build up as much of a sweat as I did ;;

Big bullet points:

Holy shit Twintelle is here

What the fuck is Hedlok

That target breaking game bites hard

I’m better at basketball in video games than real life

Smaller points to notice:

The meta is already changing. Where once people would go in guns blazing and throwing punches left and right, watching as they clash in the air and maybe someone’ll even throw a grab out there at some point, people now wait. They take their time, they keep their distance, it becomes this heart pounding game of who drew first. Grabs are still the prevalent method of dishing out damage but you’ve gotta be more careful with em now. If you throw out a haphazard grab your ass is getting grabbed right back. Unless you’re Master Mummy in which case you’re just fucked.

This is more a personal point but after participating in half of the six testpunches last week, I think I’ve grown accustomed to the movement. Now granted this time I stretched and had a bottle of water on standby and everything, I kinda prepped for it, but this does mean I think that if you’re worried about being worn out by this game, you’ll grow accustomed to the movement in time.

As is the case in any fighting game or similar game to one, mobility is huge. I had a lot of trouble in my first few go arounds against Master Mummy because of his giant wrecking ball ARMS and his healing and shit, but now my biggest problem is Twintelles and Mechanicas, who can deny your own movement and zip around respectively. That and Japanese Spring Mans, they seem to have latched onto him for some reason. They’re also the ones most likely to just go for patient grabs the whole match instead of like, actually trying to fight you.

Hedlock is fucking terrifying and silly at the same time and while he’s easy to grab you will never take it down if you only go for grabs. Teamwork is a must in addition to defensive and/or electrical arms. I like that they just threw it in there out of nowhere too, just this horrifying raid boss like thing with arms coming out of it’s mechanical skull while it’s horrifyingly mind controlling another contestant. 

Hoops is EZPZ if you’re playing anyone with a decent electrical ARM. Give em a zap, grab em, wash/rinse/repeat. It’s fun but maybe a little easy to snowball into a victory. Not much more to say on it except that Master Mummy is actually too fucking big to just throw in like you have to dunk that fucker.

People are picking up Helix and like I predicted after I’d futzed around with them myself, the truly dedicated are TERRIFYING with that gooey fuck. They can spring up zip around and grab you before you can process it. Now granted I literally only ever saw one Helix the entire time this time but that one Helix was fucking scary.

I just got back from the TestPunch, and boy are my Arms tired!

Jokes aside, it was really fun and really tiring! I really wish I didn’t work today, I’m already sore as hell.