Farming, raising flowers, planting trees, etc., these elements are very common in SLG games, to put it bluntly, it is already rotten. So can this type of game work still play new tricks? The answer is yes.
The game that describes boxing training and competition - "Punch Club", which is the previous work of Lazy Bear Games, the production team of "Graveyard Keeper", is also a game screen using pixel graphics, depicting the protagonist who lost his father since he was a child, so he worked hard to do boxing training to start a game, make money, break out of popularity, and try to avenge his dead father.
Similar to the structure of the movie "Rocky" starring Stallone, players need to properly manage the daily life arrangements of the protagonist and learn various skills in order to continuously defeat opponents. This game is a role-playing game with cultivation elements, players play the protagonist and constantly play boxing matches, trying to improve their rankings and advance.
In the process, you need to exercise the three attributes of strength, agility and endurance, you can stand up at home to do training, you can also spend money to train in the gym, and at the same time, you can work on the construction site to improve your attributes while making money, and even go to the sporting goods store to buy training equipment at home to do training. However, the game has added a system that needs to pay attention to the state of body, mind and soul for the protagonist, and constant training will be hungry, and will also be tired and need to go home to sleep, and there must be moderate entertainment activities to play games at home.
The difficulty of the game is that if the protagonist does not do training, the attributes will decline at the end of the day, which makes the player feel many setbacks at the beginning of the game, after all, the protagonist has no money at the beginning, and there is no money to eat to make money, but the time to make money loses the training opportunity, and the game cannot be won, and the situation is very miserable. Even if you walk on the street with too much money, you may be robbed, and if you lose an underground boxing match, you will be seriously injured and have no money to heal, which is really difficult to survive.
But as long as you survive this period, you will have a faster and more profitable job later, and the increase in the ability value of the character plus the learning of some basic skills will be much more stable overall. And this game basically does not game Over, but will not have money to eat and fall into a dilemma, but you can still go to the trash can outside the bar to rummage through spoiled food, or go to a friend's house to rest. After the game update also has a super simple mode, there will be no penalty for attribute drops, and you can play randomly in the simple difficulty, but you can't unlock the achievement.
The game is quite easy to use, that is, to use the mouse to click around, almost without the keyboard. The training process or combat is fully automatic. This makes it more boring to fight, just watch two people standing still and fighting each other, winning or losing depends on the attributes of the character and the skill combination, plus some luck components.
Although the boxing club is a story about the protagonist in order to avenge his father, but the overall style is not serious, but also added a lot of bad taste, the main line plot structure is more loose, usually by a series of side stories to make players not bored, such as can join the gang to work for the boss, but also can make a girlfriend (women will only affect the speed of my punching, but I thought about it, the speed of boxing is still slower). Even later, there was a DLC-Black Fist update, which allowed the protagonist to be blindfolded and transformed into a superhero black fist to eliminate violence and peace for people.
There are also a number of classic movie Easter eggs on the scene, such as meeting the two protagonists of Pulp Fiction in a coffee shop. After playing this work, you will feel that the experience is similar to that of the tomb keepers of the same production team, because the theme is novel, and it is quite fresh to play in the early stage.
But then you will find that the game spends a lot of time on walking, training, making money, but also eating, sleeping, and then competing, unlocking skills, so repeated to the end, the music melody is quite brainwashed, playing there will be an illusion of listening to lullabies. However, as a simple sketch, it is a game that can pass a lot of time.