OH YEAAAAAAA ALL OVER MY BODY WITH THAT MONSTERHahaha I absolutely want to play this. It's like @bonk the game. Insane Energy Drink Lifestyle Madness. I'm in.
This game looks so good I'm going to change Isaac's nickname from Mr Stampy to Anger Foot.
Played the demo just now. Holy shit, is it a good time. Day one purchase.
The experience is built on speed, in fact, and the game actively wants us to run as fast as possible through rooms tapping the kick button as if we had a tommy gun for a leg (side note: there's a game idea, for anyone listening). Just keep tapping, keep kicking, keep running.
The PAX East demo drops us in a back alley and tasks us with kicking our way into the adjacent building. Upon entering, our lizard-like adversaries start popping around corners and beg us to flail our foot wildly at them. A charge of two or three of them can get decimated when we kick, and is a fairly manageable situation, although I do wish there was a button to do a quick 180 — sometimes the speed at which the game moves can make us miss an enemy standing right behind us and whacking away.
Kicking everything has its strategic advantages, too. If there's a door, kicking it will likely flatten an enemy behind it, so learning to hit a door head-on (as opposed to kicking at an angle) can take out one or two bad lizards behind it. In one bathroom area, kicking a stall door crushes a poor dude dropping a dookie on the toilet, with the added bonus of the dev team blurring out the guy's lizard junk as he sits slumped over the toilet. It's a blink of an eye moment, but weirdly appreciated in effort. There is A LOT of middle school toilet humor in the game, but that's the intent.
Just magic.