The game has a Saturday morning cartoon look about it with
bright colours and character designs that wouldn’t out of place in the brash
world of the nineties. If you didn’t know better you could certainly see this
being a spinoff from one of the many TV shows of the time, most of which
spawned their own scrolling beat’em ups.
There aren’t a huge number of levels but each is distinctive
from the last and they have their own sets of enemies to pummel with suitably
large bosses at the end. And the amount of enemies is really something with the
screen almost completely filling at times. It does get chaotic, especially in
multiplayer, and we’ve seen reports of performance problems on Switch but we
didn’t come across too many instances that let the game down.
With all these enemies to hit, it’s a good thing you have a
decent array of moves to do it with. Much of the time you’ll be bashing away at
the attack button but you gain new moves as you progress by collecting scrolls
and there is also a throw and block button. Blocking can also lead to counter
attacks with almost all enemy moves reversible. When things get really crowded
you’ve also got the special move button which is effectively a smart bomb of
sorts. Each of the four characters also has their own style and move set ranging
from the standard tropes of quick ninja to strong tank.
Overall, Jitsu Squad is a fun addition to the ranks of the
scrolling beat’em up. Very few games in the genre such a wide-ranging move set and
the diversity in the characters is also fun. It is a very short game though and
there’s little to do once you’ve been through it a couple of times. While many
will be drawn to the Turtles and Streets of Rages of this world this is certainly
well worth checking out and fans of the genre will likely have a blast with it.
Overall 7/10
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