We all know the backlash, humor and joke that Spanish studios bring when they get creative, that they resort to old formulas of humor to confront old clichés of our country and devise video games that are as crazy as they are great. And in the case of Albacete Warrior, which had been a small phenomenon on PC and Steam, now it is making the leap towards definitive universalization.
An explosive cocktail of ideas
There is no simple way to explain what Albacete Warrior is because if you leave the name aside, everything else is complete absurdity: our protagonist is a Ninja, named Benito, who is accompanied on his adventure by a chicken and has a Sensei whom he knows as Paco. In other words, a whole host of creative decisions so illogical that they turn out great and to which we must add that place from which our hero departs: Albacete.
With these ingredients you will think that we are facing a game of those that become completely forgettable, but we already tell you that this is not the case. First of all, because it takes the form of a classic beat-em up where we have to move through scenarios infested with enemies and who we have to kick off the screen. But not the ones you can imagine frivolously, but the others, the ones we hit when we pick up the chicken in the game and throw it as if it were a katana or a sword.
All the settings are recreated in a very simple but effective 3D, while the protagonist and the enemies are 2D sprites that move as they can within Albacete Warrior . So don’t expect an AAA from him but rather an anecdote as funny as it is crazy, Manchegan and Spanish in equal parts. Because when a national studio starts creating absurd games, nobody beats us.
What is global now?
The adventures of Benito had been a PC exclusive until a few days ago, which arrived in December 2021, but right now, you have it available in the digital stores of PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch, in such a way that You can enjoy on any current platform. This opens the doors for the success achieved on computers to be repeated on consoles, especially thanks to the typical word-of-mouth of independent releases.
Another of the great ideas of Albacete Warrior is that we can play it completely alone within the same game or, as in the old arcade machines of the 90s where these beat-em ups were successful, with another friend at the same time, locally within the same console or PC. We only have to connect a second gamepad so that together and in holy company we can clean the scene of enemies to…
In addition, the price of this game is perfect to help the developers, the guys from FAS3, because they sell it to us for 9.99 euros on consoles and also on PC, where these days it’s on sale and thanks to a 35% discount we are left with only 6.33. Aren’t you even going to try it?