Anger Foot will probably become the Hotline Miami for sneaker fans

Why doorknobs when you can kick the door off its hinges? She then sails through the entire room, burying the crocodile opponent waiting at the other end and, of course, calls his buddies into action. The first one is slammed against the wall, but the second one has a bomb for a head. So you pull back, wait – and then kick him so he sails towards the rest of the gang to give them a banging surprise. Joy! Finished. next room.

Anger Foot fits Devolver like foot fits face. It’s somehow different, wonderfully over the top and, above all, really fun. From where I know this? Because the prototype of the newly announced game has been sold on itch.io for quite a while – at a price of your choice, starting at zero euros. You knuckles! Or you can download the demo on Steam. Although it is much shorter, it gives a good impression of how the prototype will become the final game, which will be expanded both graphically and in terms of content.

Among other things, the foot-in-the-face action gets a story that the prototype is still missing. After all, it was… I have no idea what the alter ego is called here. In any case, one of his favorite shoes was stolen and of course that’s not possible! So he goes out to knock out baddies, some of whom actually look like crocodiles, but also include tentacles and guys with fist-like heads, including a middle finger extended. And who, by the way, all dance like hell as soon as you die. But I can’t blame them either. The blunt beat is hard on the leg!

Anyway, some of these gangsters even carry guns. Grenades are the smallest problem; you just kick them back to the sender. Pistols and shotguns should be avoided, however, as they can quickly ruin your day. It’s a good thing that you can shoot with them yourself as soon as you’ve eliminated their owners, because that makes progress much easier. Oh, and did I mention the lanyarded plunger used to pull fiends and explosive kegs towards you and then kick them back into space? super practical!

There is a tick for “Foot Only” in each level’s scoreboard, and of course that should be the ultimate goal in this game. But you can try that in a later run, when you might have already unlocked a few bonus slippers.

You unlock them by completing various challenges (so many headshots, a level in less than 45 seconds, etc.) and wearing one of the shoes grants you a certain ability. So you get a shot of ammo for every kill or charge a kick that flies you to the opposite wall. This is practical for rushing over unhealthy liquid in sewers, for example.

That should be the real challenge anyway: Normal kicking and shooting is quite simple – it only gets challenging if you can’t reach certain opponents quickly. Then you sometimes have to skilfully work your way from one cover to the next, while the meanies also rarely stand still.

Now there is already a lot to discover in the prototype apart from the joy of pedaling, but at the same time the demo also indicates that there will be a lot more to come in the finished game. Look forward to skeletons that have apparently died while peeing standing up, and kick in toilet doors behind which crocodiles are just… closing a deal. No, Anger Foot probably won’t be a really big game… It didn’t have to be Hotline Miami either! And you can definitely expect a similar amount of fun here. At least that’s what I had at the weekend with the rabid slapping, which is already wonderfully silly fun on itch.io and Steam.