One of the developers also has amazing blog with well done analysis of brawler/beat-em-up genre, spanning from Battletoads to Bayonetta. I highly recommend reading a few of his articles on the subject (http://aztez.com/blog/category/beat-em-ups/).
On the more academic side he wrote:
On genre distinctions (http://aztez.com/blog/2013/01/03/on-genre-distinctions/) -- on the definition of "Beat-em-up" and how you can distinguish them from say, Dark Souls combat system
History of Beat'em'ups (http://aztez.com/blog/2012/08/23/the-history-of-beat-em-ups/) -- timeline of the most important games in the genre
anatomy of successful attack (http://aztez.com/blog/2014/01/06/anatomy-of-a-successful-attack/) -- what makes for a good "satisfying" hit punch in a game
I also recommend reading his combat analysis articles (http://aztez.com/blog/category/combat-analysis/) where he picks apart combat systems of the most recent beat-em-up games, such as MGR, DMC, Ryse and others.
Title: Re: Aztez (aztec themed 2d brawler) coming to Wii U
Post by: Soren on March 18, 2014, 12:09:51 AM
I'm intrigued.
Title: Re: Aztez (aztec themed 2d brawler) coming to Wii U
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 18, 2014, 01:59:30 AM
Looks pretty cool, but like MadWorld, black and white can be hard to look at when the action gets intense. A gold/tan-based look would look a lot better IMO.
Title: Re: Aztez (aztec themed 2d brawler) coming to Wii U
Post by: ShyGuy on March 18, 2014, 10:37:54 AM
I like the beat em up aspect. Need more 2D games that aren't platformers.
Title: Re: Aztez (aztec themed 2d brawler) coming to Wii U
Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on March 18, 2014, 10:24:06 PM
Color me intrigued!
Title: Re: Aztez (aztec themed 2d brawler) coming to Wii U
Post by: azeke on July 08, 2014, 12:53:11 AM
Streams has crossed and one of my go-to experts in beat'em up genre, Saur (http://www.youtube.com/user/Saur), is previewing Aztez which is made by the second expert (Ben Ruiz, i gave links to his articles in the first post): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrY6r7RaXIk
Aztez is looking good. Definitely closer in gameplay to Bayonetta in 2d than to Viewtiful Joe (thankfully for me).
The game is described as a mashup of turn based strategy and beat'em'up which is weird and slightly worrying because i don't see much information about strategy element and wonder why it's even there to begin with when beat'em'up elements looks solid enough to carry entire game by it's own.
Title: Re: Aztez (aztec themed 2d brawler) coming to Wii U
Post by: azeke on August 04, 2017, 12:13:24 AM
Game is out on Steam:
At this point it's more likely it will come out on Switch.
Regardless i boguht the game and it's pretty cool. I only had a chance to play it work PC first 2 days so i was using keyboard controls. Game sets Up for jump by default and it breaks the game because you can't make launching moves with Up+attack -- you just jump instead. It's fixable by rebinding space to jump.
Last night i had time to play the game at home with controller and then it really clicked. Really satisfying combat and controls are very easy, simplistic even.
Main campaign mode with conquering Mexico feels a bit tacked on top of of main attraction -- combat. I guess they thought a game with just one arena and you fighting waves of mobs wouldn't fly with todays gamers and you need some kind of progression no matter how unnecessary it feels.
Title: Re: Aztez (aztec themed 2d brawler) coming to Wii U
Post by: azeke on October 20, 2017, 02:53:35 AM
I don't really follow the indie scene (and outside of Civilization, I really don't follow or know what is happening in the realm of PC and Steam) so I'd never heard of this game before despite you having created a thread for it years ago and even bumping it a few months. (Not noticing the bump bothers me.) However, I really enjoyed that article and found the whole history and story behind this game pretty intriguing by learning just how the indie scene has been changing and the difficulties facing people making these games. Thanks for the link!
Title: Re: Aztez (aztec themed 2d brawler) coming to Wii U
Post by: Order.RSS on October 21, 2017, 11:56:12 AM
That article was a decent lil' insight into the struggles of being an indie developer. Aztez looks like a cool game, I would've picked this up on Wii U. Probably will if it makes Switch and I buy one of those in a few years.
Title: Re: Aztez (aztec themed 2d brawler) coming to Wii U
Post by: ShyGuy on October 21, 2017, 10:51:08 PM
Well going by the GoNintendo headline about that article, it sounds fairly certain that will come to the Switch in the next few months. https://gonintendo.com/stories/293496-aztez-devs-aiming-to-release-the-game-on-switch-by-jan-feb-2018 (https://gonintendo.com/stories/293496-aztez-devs-aiming-to-release-the-game-on-switch-by-jan-feb-2018)
