PPKP

PPKP

Android - World - Icon.

Developer toshihiro_app Publisher toshihiro_app Published 2017-06-14 Platforms Android, iOS Genres Beat 'em up Themes Cartoon, Martial arts Distribution Adware, Crippleware

PPKP, short for Punch Punch Kick Punch, is a beat 'em up video game published by toshihiro_app for Android and iOS in 2017-06-14. The art style draws a lot of inspiration from the Kunio-kun series.

Personal

Own?	No.
Won?	Yes. All gold-bought upgrades.
Finished	2020-03-19.

I found this game while searching for a new game to play on my phone. Recognizing the art style from River City Ransom, I downloaded it. Although I found it a bit dull, I still played through the game and beat it.

Review

3	6	8	5	3

Best Version: Android

— This section contains spoilers! —

Good

• I love the Kunio-kun style of the characters, and the pixel art is top-notch. There are also interesting backgrounds and decorative animations.
• The game's music and sound effects are fitting and incorporate some 8-bit style sounds.
• The various attack animations are enjoyable to watch.
• Being able to train and upgrade pretty much everything about the game is nice because it allows for custom strategies.

Bad

• There are a few graphic glitches here and there, but nothing obtrusive.
• For some reason, the fire and ice attacks can't be doubled up on without wasting an attack in between.
• I feel like there are too many special attacks to learn and upgrade. Even after you've learned electricity, wind, fire, ice, earth, demon, laser, and hadoken, you then have to buy two upgrades each, and level them over time. There are also leveling speed ups to buy as well.
• There is sometimes a lag bug when you get a gold exclamation point and punch an enemy into the air where, if you press the buttons fast enough, you will be able to hit the enemy thousands of times resulting in tens of thousands of gold (as long as you don't go too far and crash the game). This helps speed the game along through some of its dull grinding, but it should really be fixed.
• I'm not sure if it's my phone or how I tap the screen, but I miss button presses every 100 presses or so. Not enough to break the game, but enough to be annoying.
• The end boss takes a little trial and error to even figure out how to reach him, and, once you do, new trial and error to find out how to hurt him. I had to consult an online hint for this. The timing needed to reflect his attack back at him has a very slim margin of error, and, each time you fail, you have to grind more enemies to build another mecha-suit, which is really boring.
• The ending has very little fanfare. It just opens another endless fighting area with a boring background.

Ugly

• When you first begin the game, you expand fairly rapidly and unlock new power-ups, moves, and areas, however, as the game progresses, you spend most of your time grinding the same enemies over and over again. You're at the last couple locations for a very long time, so it becomes extremely tedious and repetitive.
• Like most pay-to-progress games, you can simply buy power-ups or watch ads to get power-ups making the game less of an experience and more of a product. Also, in order to make the game still take time for those people who dump money into it, progress occurs at an extremely slow rate for those playing for free, which is very dull.

Media

Game Art

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  Official icon used for all versions.

Videos

Intro and basic game play.

All combos.

Representation

Strong female character?	Fail	There are no strong women.
Bechdel test?	Fail	There is no dialogue.
Strong person of color character?	Fail	There are no humans.
Queer character?	Fail	There are no queer characters.

Links

   

• play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.toshi.ppkp - Google Play.
• player.one/ppkp-guide-tips-tricks-cheats-get-more-diamonds-gems-118188 - Guide.
• writerparty.com/party/ppkp-top-17-tips-tricks-hints-cheats-and-strategies - Guide.