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Five Gods Of Kung Fu is a cheerfully silly fighting homage

Out to punch

Kicking some fools in Five Gods Of Kung Fu.
Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Gregor Bestelmeyer

Casually reducing a genre to more easily slag it off, I propose that there are fighting games that are a memory test, and fighting games that are fun. This leads naturally into saying with confidence that Five Gods of Kung Fu is fun, and getting an intro I'm struggling with out of the way. Phew.

It's structured in a testy sort of way, though, with training scenes teaching the button prompts for the new moves you'll need to defeat the next opponent. But those scenes are also montages, because FGOKF is also a playful thing where you're then attacked by a gang of mooks purely for a few moments of miniature power fantasy where a single blow can take out the entire line at once. Your new fighting technique is unstoppable.

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