A beautiful game
SifuandAbsolverteam Sloclap stuck a release date on their multiplayer footie gameRematchtoday - June 19th.
Nic:Well, that was fun!
The Sifu DNA is there, too.
Plenty of room for self expression and what felt like a high skill ceiling.
Attacks become counterattacks, worldie shots become fine saves, and glory becomes heartbreak in an instance.
Nic:James what is a worldie shot?
All balls are shaped like worlds.
Can you do one in this?
I watched someone do a header once but I never worked out how.
Dribbling seems like the most fleshed out part of the game so far.
I would like to get good at it.
Let me hang from the skill ceiling like a virtuousic cobweb.
James:A worldie is like a banger, yknow?
A proper rocket, a screamer.
Like you just Amazon Primed the ball into their net.
Nic:Yeah shout out to Philos, a prancing firework of a many-limbed lemur of a footmanballer.
James:I would like to be a little more like Philos.
Nic:I will say though, despite the nuances, it’s quite intuitive.
I know shooting from shooting games, right, so I got that part.
You’ve even got a reticle.
The real sticking point for me was stamina management.
Oh, that’s right, it also switches everyone’s positions each time a goal is scored.
How did you find playing goalie?
Though I do think it’s been designed so it’s just fun to play without that context.
Did you experience much dissonance?
Like, expecting things to work a certain way that they didn’t?
James:Ill concede that I initially played as ifthe offside rulewas in effect, which it was not.
Sorry, EA Sports FC.
But then, maybe we just need to defend better?
Nic:We played four-a-side, although you’re able to play five.
At one point two northern lads showed up and started talking about pizza and chinese food over their microphones.
We could hear them, but they couldn’t hear us because we were in Google meet.
But you kept them on, right?
Did they eventually start talking about pies, as I imagine all conversations in the north eventually end up?
James:It wouldnt be football if there werent a few Fookins and Bloodehs being thrown around.
Nic:The holographic backgrounds were nice, right?
Like the positions, they change after someone scores a goal.
Same with the music.
