Shitty fighting games... what are they exactly? Out of every genre out there, fighters feel the hardest to fuck up because even at their worst there's just an immense amount of enjoyment to be had from it's potentially fucked up mechanics, terrible character designs, "what were they thinking with this broken op move?", etc.

There's just this point where sometimes the crap factor goes so low that it underflows and comes out through the top and becomes the best shit you could experience, and I think Battle Monsters here represents that feeling for me. The characters are absolutely hysterical, digitized actors in cheap costumes and cg models. The roster includes Frankenstein's Monster played by Michael Myers, a non-copyright infringing Shao Kahn, a dude who looks like Spinal with Kabuki hair, a pair of mimes that fight alongside each other, a medusa lady who yells like a cartoon character, etc. It reeks of cheesy b-movie insanity, I fucking love it.

The gameplay is kinda like Savage Reign or perhaps a jank Smash Bros with health bars instead of KO zones with three jump buttons to move between platforms of varying heights, not one stage is alike in their layout or gimmicks. There even seems to be interactibles similar to MKX or Injustice where you can knock down boulders and stalactites to hit your opponent. The actual fighting is so easy peasy a stone age cavemen could do it, you could probably play this with the most unassuming friend who knows nothing about fighting games, literally so easy a baboon could play this at high level. Assuming "high level" is even a thing and that this game only plays at low level by default.

This game is fucking dumb and I give it a hard recommend if you enjoy crap fighting games. Hell, I recommend this shit even if you like stupid games in general. It's an absolute blast, I wasted an afternoon playing it. I try my absolute damndest to not hand out meme ratings, but I really had to fight the urge to not give this shit five stars. Seriously, check it out.