It’s more about manipulating its speed and direction, not just making it go very fast. It’s also possible to counter an attack by plucking the ball out of the air and pitching it back, baseball-style. What’s great about the bunt is that it stops the ball in its tracks but lets it keep its kinetic energy, so when you hit it again, it’s still got some speed. To get more control over it, you can give it a little bunt. Sure, a supersonic projectile might knock out your opponent, but it could just as easily be turned on you. You don’t always want the ball to be tearing across the screen. When the ball reaches cataclysmic speeds, everything starts to shake, the world turns red and I confess that I usually start shouting at that point because bloody hell is it intense. At a certain point, it doesn’t matter how much health you’ve got, it will smack you right out of the arena. At slow speeds, the ball can only do a small amount of damage, but as it gets faster, the prospect of missing it becomes terrifying. With every strike, the ball picks up speed until it’s moving so fast that there’s a very real concern that it might rip through time and space. It requires a lot of split-second tactical manoeuvring as you try to get both ball and opponent in position for your coup de grace. They’re probably not going to just stand there waiting for you, of course, so you’ve got to aim for where you expect them to be, not where they’re currently standing. You could, for instance, bounce the ball off the borders of the arena to get it behind the other player, catching them off-guard. There’s a bit more to landing a hit than just leathering the ball really hard. Ultimately, you’re trying to plant the ball right in your opponent’s smug face. But you don’t want to get stuck in a rally forever. If you keep hitting that ball back, you’ll stay concussion-free.
It might be a baseball you’re knocking about, but Blaze frequently conjures up tense rallies that are more evocative of racket sports. When you smack it, the ball is tagged with your colour and can’t hurt you, but the other player can avoid taking damage by simply smacking the ball back, changing the colour again.
Simple controls and an absence of elaborate combos means you can pick up a controller and just start swinging.Įverything orbits the ball, and the player with the most control over it wins. Like Smash Bros, its closest relative aside from the original Lethal League, it’s a party game. With one hit, the baseball can become a WMD.
With the flick of the stick and the press of a button, I can launch a supersonic, earth-shaking strike that bombards my opponent from every direction.
Few other games make hitting things, either balls or people, this immensely satisfying.
#LETHAL LEAGUE BLAZE SPECIALS FULL#
The ball is a relentless, physics-defying missile that, at full force, can almost be everywhere at once. In these duels, the baseball is the sole weapon. Imagine baseball, but then strip away all the parts that don’t involve whacking a ball, replacing them with violent duels between two to four brawlers. Lethal League Blaze is a springy, frenetic future-sport played by an underground league of robots, skaters, mercenaries and a sentient boombox.
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