why does this exist, i just got remembered of it and i hate it so much. its just some meme game from a meme that everyone had forgotten in 2008. The celebrity stuff was already outdated when it came out (pretty sure it was dead when production started) the game is not funny, not interesting, its just a boring confussing mess. im just confused, who did they make this for? who even bought this? I just genuenly can't believe that they got a team of people working on this game.
I'm only giving this game a star, because I got it for free.
Diverte pela gameplay, a arte é legal, os bosses interessantes, mas repetitivo em inimigos, cenarios, o jogo parece sempre o mesmo, podia ser melhor, se esta sedento por um jogo de porradaria vale tentar, mas tem muita coisa melhor para ser jogada por ai.
this both looks and plays like one of those stock games you'd see in the background of a bad 2010's comedy movie
This is maybe the worst game I’ve ever played. It’s hideous, unfunny, and plays atrociously. Despite their promises pre-launch, they did, indeed, “FU it up.”
ironically more fun than redfall
Maybe in 24 years they can make a new Shaq Fu game that passes the quality bar of decent.
Music was good tho
dont ask
I'll keep this one short and simple. 6 chapters, about 5 hours, fun enough but don't spend more than a couple bucks on this game. If you like side scrolling button mashing beat em ups, this is an ok option.
Trophies
Difficulty: 2/10
Time: 6 hours
No Platinum trophy and you can only get the DLC trophies if you buy the physical version of the game. Trophies are for beating each end level boss and for beating quantity of bad guys in different ways. Very straightforward, very easy. With that said, some of the bosses can require a little more skill than originally thought.
Trophies
Difficulty: 2/10
Time: 6 hours
No Platinum trophy and you can only get the DLC trophies if you buy the physical version of the game. Trophies are for beating each end level boss and for beating quantity of bad guys in different ways. Very straightforward, very easy. With that said, some of the bosses can require a little more skill than originally thought.
"Celebrities are making us stupid" says Shaquille O'Neal on Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn for the PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and mobile devices.
An easy, fun beat em up
An actual scam outsourced to russians, how did shaq get away with this
I'm no stranger to playing shit games, but Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn is just awful in every possible way. There are "funny bad" games like Ride to Hell and whatever, but then there are games like this; games that are so brainless in design and bland to play, topped off with horrid writing to make a monotonous experience that isn't fun on either side of the "good" or "bad" scale.
Shaq Fu 2 is just really manufactured in feel, to a point that it feels as if there's no passion behind it. Despite a few okay pieces of decent art production and that the game actually functions (despite many bugs and a soft-crash I had mid-way through the game), there's nothing going for it.
The gameplay is so repetitive, the story so uninteresting, the characters so poorly written and performed, as well as the game's absolutely terrible sense of humor. In a game that's only around 3 hours to finish, you'll hear countless racist jokes against Chinese people, homophobic jokes, and even a few splashes of transphobic humor; amazing.
For a game that's the whole purpose was to "reinvigorate" the meme of the long-gone fighting game from the 90s, this shitty beat-em-up game does nothing to keep it alive, which might just be a good thing.
Also, big middle finger to the devs/publisher that walked back on the multitude of features the game was supposed to have including co-op play, vs, and so much more.
Also, while I'm here, the screenshots used for the background images on Backloggd at the time of writing are from a completely different build of the game. The version we got in real life looks much, much worse.
Shaq Fu 2 is just really manufactured in feel, to a point that it feels as if there's no passion behind it. Despite a few okay pieces of decent art production and that the game actually functions (despite many bugs and a soft-crash I had mid-way through the game), there's nothing going for it.
The gameplay is so repetitive, the story so uninteresting, the characters so poorly written and performed, as well as the game's absolutely terrible sense of humor. In a game that's only around 3 hours to finish, you'll hear countless racist jokes against Chinese people, homophobic jokes, and even a few splashes of transphobic humor; amazing.
For a game that's the whole purpose was to "reinvigorate" the meme of the long-gone fighting game from the 90s, this shitty beat-em-up game does nothing to keep it alive, which might just be a good thing.
Also, big middle finger to the devs/publisher that walked back on the multitude of features the game was supposed to have including co-op play, vs, and so much more.
Also, while I'm here, the screenshots used for the background images on Backloggd at the time of writing are from a completely different build of the game. The version we got in real life looks much, much worse.
I bought this for the meme years ago, and the novelty wore off a few minutes in. It's not like overwhelmingly bad, it's just a very boring, short beat em' up with not much else going for it.
Edit at time of uploading review (3/19/24): I recommend this game much less highly now. The actual action is only OK and the writing is only funny when it's not fucking awful and tasteless. Buyer beware :/
I bought this game entirely because Elkin's review of the Barack Fu DLC for it had me in stitches. I was very disappointed to find that apparently the Barack Fu DLC isn't actually on the American PSN store yet, apparently? Regardless, I played through Shaq Fu and had a pretty good time. I played through on normal difficulty and it took me like 2 or 2.5 hours (this game ain't long).
The game is a 2.5D brawler, and it's an okay to not-so-great one. The hit detection can be a bit funky, as you can walk around in a 3D space but can only attack left and right, not up and down, but that wonky detection tends to be in your advantage and not the enemy's, so it's not a problem. The combos are pretty simple but satifsying, and the game is short enough that they never get tedious or anything. The greatest sin I can say against the mechanics is that they just really aren't good enough to allow the hard mode to be playable. Enemies hit like twice as hard in the hard mode, and some enemy types like ninjas are just an absolute nightmare to fight with how agile they are compared to you. The hard mode is a total waste of time.
The game also has absolutely no multiplayer of any kind, which is insanely stupid for a beat 'em up released in 2018, quite frankly. I'd go as far as to call it downright inexcusable considering the $30 price tag the game goes for physically (or $40 if you're getting it on Switch). Given that it's a 2 hour game with very little replayability and not even multiplayer, I'd say the asking price on this thing is even a bit much for the default $20 digital price tag.
Where the game really shines is the writing though. It's very unabashadly silly and tongue-in-cheek writing. It has some low-points in the comedy that'll really make you cringe, but the highs far outweighed the lows for me. The music is also really fun 90's rap in a catchy but bad way and the theme song is just such stupid fun in that same vein. I gotta agree that I'm pretty damn tempted to pick up some of the soundtrack because it's just that damn catchy. The graphics are colorful, but nothing amazing. Very serviceable.
Verdict: Recommended. The writing is silly enough and the gameplay is just-okay enough that this is a game that I enjoyed my time with. Lack of multiplayer aside, the biggest downside to it as it is is the price tag. If you can get this for $10 or $15, this is definitely one to pick up to have a laugh with over an afternoon.
I bought this game entirely because Elkin's review of the Barack Fu DLC for it had me in stitches. I was very disappointed to find that apparently the Barack Fu DLC isn't actually on the American PSN store yet, apparently? Regardless, I played through Shaq Fu and had a pretty good time. I played through on normal difficulty and it took me like 2 or 2.5 hours (this game ain't long).
The game is a 2.5D brawler, and it's an okay to not-so-great one. The hit detection can be a bit funky, as you can walk around in a 3D space but can only attack left and right, not up and down, but that wonky detection tends to be in your advantage and not the enemy's, so it's not a problem. The combos are pretty simple but satifsying, and the game is short enough that they never get tedious or anything. The greatest sin I can say against the mechanics is that they just really aren't good enough to allow the hard mode to be playable. Enemies hit like twice as hard in the hard mode, and some enemy types like ninjas are just an absolute nightmare to fight with how agile they are compared to you. The hard mode is a total waste of time.
The game also has absolutely no multiplayer of any kind, which is insanely stupid for a beat 'em up released in 2018, quite frankly. I'd go as far as to call it downright inexcusable considering the $30 price tag the game goes for physically (or $40 if you're getting it on Switch). Given that it's a 2 hour game with very little replayability and not even multiplayer, I'd say the asking price on this thing is even a bit much for the default $20 digital price tag.
Where the game really shines is the writing though. It's very unabashadly silly and tongue-in-cheek writing. It has some low-points in the comedy that'll really make you cringe, but the highs far outweighed the lows for me. The music is also really fun 90's rap in a catchy but bad way and the theme song is just such stupid fun in that same vein. I gotta agree that I'm pretty damn tempted to pick up some of the soundtrack because it's just that damn catchy. The graphics are colorful, but nothing amazing. Very serviceable.
Verdict: Recommended. The writing is silly enough and the gameplay is just-okay enough that this is a game that I enjoyed my time with. Lack of multiplayer aside, the biggest downside to it as it is is the price tag. If you can get this for $10 or $15, this is definitely one to pick up to have a laugh with over an afternoon.
I enjoyed this one. I know it’s not the best but shaq was funny.
This review contains spoilers
Spoilered because it gets gross.
I'm going into this Backloggd thing with the goal of honing in how I look at video games critically. One of the things I'm seeing is that games I score this low are abject failures of some caliber. Maybe they are amusing in how thoroughly they fail. Maybe they completely and thoroughly befuddle me in their failure. And maybe they just pissed me off. Shaq Fu 2 is definitely the latter category.
I am all for the idea of a self-aware successor to a bad meme game. I only know the original Shaq Fu by reputation, but it's the perfect candidate for this sort of thing. I legitimately was excited for this - not enough to buy it, but enough to rent it from the video store for a weekend playthrough. I looked forward to seeing what they'd do this time around, especially since they were treating this one like a soft reboot.
So the setup is that Shaq was discovered by a Chinese peasant woman, Baby Moses style. He's destined to be the chosen one, so a martial arts master trains him. Shaq gets his chance to fulfill his destiny as a young adult, when a pack of demons disguised as celebrities try to take over the world.
Decent enough setup, okay. I will admit, I very rarely am able to get into celebrity parodies. I'm generally not in touch enough with mainstream pop culture to get these sorts of references while they're relevant. As a consequence, by the time I get to a celebrity parody, it usually feels super outdated. I think some of these were dated on release - even I know that 2018 was late for Justin Bieber and Mel Gibson circa Braveheart parodies - but some stuff like the Trump parody would have been contemporary. So while I personally feel that something like a Trump parody is something destined to feel dated (and I know it doesn't seem like it somedays; just give it time), I get if that's your thing. Entirely fair.
But, like... I fucking hate this game's sense of humor? Like the mentor figure's an old gay pervert who sexually harassed teen Shaq, the Chinese village ("Hunglo"; I know that's likely to be a Shadow Warrior shout-out as much as anything, but still) is littered with washing machines and conical hat stores, the game reached for a nonbinary "assuming my gender" joke then later has the lamest comedic takes I've seen on Nazis and Klansmen...
All that's the low-effort shit. What about high effort? Well, for one, there's the Kim Kardashian parody, who turns into a giant floating ass with wriggling cellulite, and it attacks by having violent taco shits, which the game giddily describes as "Brownbeard's Revenge".
There is basically nothing for me to like here. I don't find the moveset or power-ups interesting, I don't find the levels interesting, the gameplay animation is either basic or gross, the plot basically devolves into crass and crude edgy and referential humor without any real heart or charm. There are no unique mechanics or meaningful challenges, nothing that iterates upon the genre or acts as more than a momentary distraction. You get endless retries, so just get back up and go. No multiplayer, either. Just grind out the game, put it back in its jewel case, and put it away forever.
I'm not gonna pretend I'm the end-all-be-all authority to what does and doesn't make for good media. If you liked this game, man, I'm not gonna tell you you can't. I'm just saying, this was thoroughly not what I'm looking for in a video game.
...it is kind of cute that Icy Hots heal you. I'll give the game that.
I'm going into this Backloggd thing with the goal of honing in how I look at video games critically. One of the things I'm seeing is that games I score this low are abject failures of some caliber. Maybe they are amusing in how thoroughly they fail. Maybe they completely and thoroughly befuddle me in their failure. And maybe they just pissed me off. Shaq Fu 2 is definitely the latter category.
I am all for the idea of a self-aware successor to a bad meme game. I only know the original Shaq Fu by reputation, but it's the perfect candidate for this sort of thing. I legitimately was excited for this - not enough to buy it, but enough to rent it from the video store for a weekend playthrough. I looked forward to seeing what they'd do this time around, especially since they were treating this one like a soft reboot.
So the setup is that Shaq was discovered by a Chinese peasant woman, Baby Moses style. He's destined to be the chosen one, so a martial arts master trains him. Shaq gets his chance to fulfill his destiny as a young adult, when a pack of demons disguised as celebrities try to take over the world.
Decent enough setup, okay. I will admit, I very rarely am able to get into celebrity parodies. I'm generally not in touch enough with mainstream pop culture to get these sorts of references while they're relevant. As a consequence, by the time I get to a celebrity parody, it usually feels super outdated. I think some of these were dated on release - even I know that 2018 was late for Justin Bieber and Mel Gibson circa Braveheart parodies - but some stuff like the Trump parody would have been contemporary. So while I personally feel that something like a Trump parody is something destined to feel dated (and I know it doesn't seem like it somedays; just give it time), I get if that's your thing. Entirely fair.
But, like... I fucking hate this game's sense of humor? Like the mentor figure's an old gay pervert who sexually harassed teen Shaq, the Chinese village ("Hunglo"; I know that's likely to be a Shadow Warrior shout-out as much as anything, but still) is littered with washing machines and conical hat stores, the game reached for a nonbinary "assuming my gender" joke then later has the lamest comedic takes I've seen on Nazis and Klansmen...
All that's the low-effort shit. What about high effort? Well, for one, there's the Kim Kardashian parody, who turns into a giant floating ass with wriggling cellulite, and it attacks by having violent taco shits, which the game giddily describes as "Brownbeard's Revenge".
There is basically nothing for me to like here. I don't find the moveset or power-ups interesting, I don't find the levels interesting, the gameplay animation is either basic or gross, the plot basically devolves into crass and crude edgy and referential humor without any real heart or charm. There are no unique mechanics or meaningful challenges, nothing that iterates upon the genre or acts as more than a momentary distraction. You get endless retries, so just get back up and go. No multiplayer, either. Just grind out the game, put it back in its jewel case, and put it away forever.
I'm not gonna pretend I'm the end-all-be-all authority to what does and doesn't make for good media. If you liked this game, man, I'm not gonna tell you you can't. I'm just saying, this was thoroughly not what I'm looking for in a video game.
...it is kind of cute that Icy Hots heal you. I'll give the game that.
For some reason you can play as Obama in this game and his special move is the drone ranger, so I'm not sure where this lies politically
i knew that this was going to be bad
Like a lot of beam 'em up games, it gets repetitive by the end, but it was alright for the 3.5 hours it lasted, making this pretty much a masterpiece when compared to the original Shaq Fu.
Graphics were alright.
Gameplay is your standard beat 'em up, but with multiple checkpoints per level and no limited lives.
Hit detection felt at times a little off and it was a bit annoying to lose a weapon shortly after moving past a checkpoint.
While transforming into a mech and a cactus was cool, having a lot of enemies thrown at you just to mash buttons and defeat them shortly afterwards wasn't the best implementation for this mechanic.
The ability to go back to any stage or checkpoint is nice, but the lack of any form of co-op is really unfortunate.
The story is what it is. It's a ridiculous premise just like the original and a large part of it includes stuff which will make you mute the audio.
Graphics were alright.
Gameplay is your standard beat 'em up, but with multiple checkpoints per level and no limited lives.
Hit detection felt at times a little off and it was a bit annoying to lose a weapon shortly after moving past a checkpoint.
While transforming into a mech and a cactus was cool, having a lot of enemies thrown at you just to mash buttons and defeat them shortly afterwards wasn't the best implementation for this mechanic.
The ability to go back to any stage or checkpoint is nice, but the lack of any form of co-op is really unfortunate.
The story is what it is. It's a ridiculous premise just like the original and a large part of it includes stuff which will make you mute the audio.
Imma keep it real with you chief, I didn't even play the main game. I just played the Barack Fu DLC
Very repetitive but writing admittedly made me chuckle at times
actually one of the most mind numbing shit games i've ever played
The writing and premise are enough to entertain you for a few hours, but with repetitive gameplay, stages, and enemies, it might just be worth it to observe the hilarity from the side lines. Off-Brand
This review contains spoilers
Take a beat 'em up with some super solid mechanics, but give it an absolute shit soundtrack, really boring bosses, and some of the most unfunny humor ever.
Thank god the Fu-Schnickens song in the last level was there, felt like an absolute breath of fresh air.
Thank god the Fu-Schnickens song in the last level was there, felt like an absolute breath of fresh air.
Muito divertido, irei terminar, um dia, se Deus quiser.
this kills the kino
Please don't buy this for the meme it's a scam.
20 bucks for a Beatem-up that's not fun or challenging.
It also has "Humor" that is the lowest of the low hanging fruit, they make jokes about race, celebrity, gender, faggots, and basically, anything Family guy would do.
It's not worth it even for a joke please don't buy this.
20 bucks for a Beatem-up that's not fun or challenging.
It also has "Humor" that is the lowest of the low hanging fruit, they make jokes about race, celebrity, gender, faggots, and basically, anything Family guy would do.
It's not worth it even for a joke please don't buy this.