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EastAsiaSoft has announced that they’ll soon be releasing Thunder Ray, an arcade-style boxing game. The game will be available physically for Nintendo Switch and PS5. EastAsiaSoft Limited will be publishing the game digitally for Switch, PS4 and PS5 in Japan and Asia and the game is scheduled to launch sometime this Summer 2024.  The press release states that pre-orders for the physical release…

Today, I finished Thunder Ray and it was pretty good! If you like Punch-Out!!, you'll be happy with this, albeit disappointed that it lacks a mechanic or two from Punch-Out!!. You can't counter enemy attacks so your ability to interact with enemy attacks is strictly limited to defensive options.

The art style is beautiful. Lord Vorm and Mr Pega in particular are animated in extremely gorgeous ways, and Pega especially has a massive variety of abundantly creative attacks. It's nice that a game inspired by a retro classic doesn't employ pixel art for once. I wish I could say the same for the voice acting, which is very bad. C. Smith talks to you very often and whoever voiced him feels rather dry and lacking in energy; he sounds confused by being there. On top of all that, the microphone used to record Smith is awful.

Unfortunately, the final boss is awful; they have a very limited repertoire of attacks that look boring and their most common one cannot be dodged or ducked, so they are going to very reliably chip away at your health. Their design is intimidating but they don't do much when attacking and their attacks feel cheap, so they're not fun to fight like all the others are.