This game or punch club?

[ham85]

Which one has more depth and customization?

Thanks

[KaiTenSatsuma]

Based on my experience in this game so far, Punch Club seems to probably be better put together.

Granted I'm not picky about my brawler-sim games, but a game ought not to crash if I need to pause in the middle of a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bout.

[Samvega]

I've put 5 hours into Punch Club (on GOG) and 2 hours into this.

If I could've refunded one of them it would have been Punch Club.
* Little control over the fighting
* Upgrades invalidate previous upgrades (e.g. strength tree involves blocking abilities... but then the penultimate strength upgrade gets rid of all blocking)
* It's apparently true -- I was too bored to check -- that the agility tree is the only successful one
* The game lets you think that fixing Roy's car is possible. It is not
* I didn't seem to get anything for beating the TMNT reference characters
* The ending which I've seen on Youtube is terrible


Punch Club is amazing for references to pop culture but bad for playing. It's more of a grind simulator than a game. I honestly could NOT progress on the strength tree (way of the bear) because my fighter simply could not land the hits in order to do any damage.

Karate Master 2 has some decent references to retro martial arts films AND IS FUN TO PLAY.

[Samvega]

Oh, and I did retry with the agility tree. However the game's mechanics are too obvious and dull on a repeat play through, I found myself unwilling to bother.

If I was recommending to a friend it would be Karate Master 2.

[KaiTenSatsuma]

Just finished trying Punch Club as well.
To start - Two entirely different Genres.
Karate - Arcade Fighter
Punch Club - Fighter Manager Sim.

I'd honestly recomment Punch Club because it isn't so poorly made. Right now my Go-To tactic is 'Boot to the Head and hold out for a point based victory'

And even that gets screwed when my opponent has one of their miraculous 1-hit kill attacks that, for some reason I can never land, even though I've kicked this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ in the head about 100 times.

[ham85]

From the way you guys are describing it, I get the impression that Punch Club would be a better fit on the iPad - on the go. KM 2 seems like the better choice on Steam, even though there's less customization, it seems like you're more in control when it comes to the actual fighting itself.

[Corlain]

Neither is a very good game, I'd advise buying something else...

[KaiTenSatsuma]

How good of a game, exactly, are you expecting for 5-10 dollars?
It's amusing. That's quite enough. At least it isn't a broken pile of DRM like Tales of Symphonia, which I hope they'll fix.

[bobze]

I've played both to completion and would say that Punch Club has more depth as there is way more incentive to do multiple play throught. Currently when you reach end game with this you are max in every stat and have seen everything you can do in the game. The combat is more fun here as you actually get to control it though. Both are pretty fun though get them both if you like fighting games.

[Bru]

Get both.
They are not necessarily better or worse than each other, they just have different settings.
Get Karateka to build your zen warrior fighting spirit and for oriental style references.
Get Punch Club to harness the fighthing sub world and pop references.
Have fun.

[Waingro]

km2 is spam left punch all the way to the end(doing so makes attack and counters every attack lol), the other one seem spam your head on concrette till your end

[KaiTenSatsuma]

I wouldn't mind if you could at least train without having to struggle through a rigged tournament.
and if I could land those miraculous 1 hit kill attacks as often as the Bots do.