Top-down puncher Hotline Miami had brutality and baseball bats, but you know what it didn t have? Teleportation.
That is how I imagine most videogames are created. Just one man in a tie who is approached by developers like an oracle and who says: “do X but with Y.” Mr Shifty [official site] is about smashing through crowds of people while using a blink-like teleporting skill to dodge bullets and blows. It s out today and, like its masked mate from the 80s, it s all viewed from above. It looks hectic, but you can see that for yourself in the trailer below.
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