Toribash

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Toribash
Toribash logo.jpg
Developer(s) Nabi Studios
Publisher(s) Nicalis
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, Wii
ReleaseWindows
  • WW: March 2, 2006
Wii
  • EU: July 9, 2010
  • NA: July 12, 2010
Linux, OS X
  • WW: May 16, 2014
Genre(s) Fighting
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Toribash is a free-to-play turn-based third-person fighting game created by Singaporean developer Nabi Studios and published by Nicalis, which released on Microsoft Windows in 2006. A port for the Wii was released in July 2010, [1] and for OS X and Linux in May 2014. [2]

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Gameplay

The game is mainly played by manipulating the various joints on the player's doll-like character over turn-based sequences to execute movements. These movements primarily include relaxing, holding, contracting and extending of the player model's neck, pecs, elbows, wrists, abdomen, glutes, hips, knees and ankles; raising and lowering the shoulders, tilting the lumbar and chest left and right, and grabbing and un-grabbing of the hands.

The game features singleplayer and multiplayer, where movements are executed in turn-frames of varying lengths within set match-frames. The game is heavily sand-box based.

Reception

Toribash has been reviewed by PC Gamer UK , PC Gamer and PC Format , receiving 87%, 68% and 90% respectively. [4]

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References

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