Caught me by suprise.
Sollid game, a hidden gem.
One clean hit kills. And you will be sitting on the edge of your seat to dash, jump and kill.
it feels like a reward when you land a clean hit, The Ai is atually pretty smart and will respond great to your moves.
The characters are well balanced, there are lots of stages to choose from.
There is a story mode, VS mode and Dojo.
Really well made and well worth the price, i would support future DLC if it would happen.
As some others said this game would also be pretty awesome if there was Multyplayer.
The combat can get pretty tactical at times.

Well made, and deserves the support. Glad i bought it.

I love this games combat and mechanics but i cant reccomend it for the simple fact that it feels unfinished, this game often crashes and sometimes dosent work all together, I have heard that there are ways to fix these issues but in my opinon any game that needs me to go out of my way to make playable isnt worth a recommendation. If these issues are fixed in the future i would gladly recommend this game to anyone but as it is now it's very hard to.

Disclaimer: This game has no online support so keep that in mind when you look at its mixed review rating

Slice, Dice & Rice is 1on1 2D Fighting in it's purest form.

On the surface, the one hit kill mechanic may seem arbitrary and make some characters feel unbalanced compared to others, but if you take the time to learn

a) the different functions of your 3 attack options (vertical, horizontal and heavy)
b) the parry button and your movement abilities

and most importantly

c) how these first two options flow, link and cancel into each other

you and the person you play with will find a great deal of enjoyment in learning what stands at the core of every fighting game - that is to say when and how to use your toolkit and how it interacts with that of the opponent - leaving out all the tedious hours in training mode learning combos and steeling your muscle memory.

This game has (thanks to its very minimalistic structure) the right tools to provide fighting game newcomers with a fast and rewarding entry into the very fundamentals of the genre, e.g. spacing, anticipating and reacting to your opponent's moves and the therein resulting mindgames.

The tutorial tells you everything you need to know but doesn't go too in-depth about it (like the most fighting games), but here are some tips if you don't want to figure it out all by yourself:
The Heavy Attack (signaled by an orange flash) can be cancelled during it's startup with a parry or a dash but cannot be parried itself and is best evaded by movement or a quick preemptive counterattack
Vertical Attacks are best used on the ground against airborne opponents or when attacking a grounded opponent out of a jump
Horizontal Attacks are quick and often the best air-to-air options but also very easy to parry if you are being too predictable with them

If you have a sibling, a roommate, a significant other, or just friends over at times who like fighting games no matter if they're good at them or not, give this game a shot and try to keep playing for 2 or 3 matches against the same person under the same conditions and watch as you both rapidly learn each others playstyle and find new ways to counterplay each other.

This is what fighting games are about! Going up against an opponent and feel as both of you learn and become better.

Simply put:
Pros:
- Music
- Atmosphere
- Graphics
- Gameplay gimmick (one clean hit kills) - which makes it really fun for footsies, baits, faints and so on.

Cons:
- Hitboxes
- Input handling
- No save during storyline.
- Absolutely no tutorial.
- Unagi system.
- Technical issues.

Pros are pretty self-explanatory. So I'll focus why I cannot recommend this game. Slow motion which should "warn" about deadly hit is broken as hell - will activate on hits which are miles away from you and sometimes won't activate when it should - you are in point blank range, attack is incoming and radio silence - you have Unagi ready, but it just won't work.
Input handling - there is a little input delay, but what's more frustrating - the game cannot handle combos in any way I can understand. Hints (which also leads to point of not having tutorial) tell you that each character has different chains, links and combos and tells you to experiment to find them (laziest solution I heard of). Most of characters can chain two horizontal attacks - but only NPC seems to do it consistently, when I try to do it it doesn't always end with a combo. Press attack on ending of animation - doesn't combo, press it two times fast on start - doesn't combo, mash the attack button like crazy - sometimes ends with a combo. It's especially infuriating on characters like Benkei who uses his fists and relies on combos to have chance against all the one-shot weapons. All in all - fun idea, but destroyed by how it came to life.

An interesting game, But it seems unfinished and it's quite frustrating.

TL:DR
If you are into fighting games, this is a nice hidden gem!
However, unfortunately the game was abandoned by the Devs. So don't expect any new updates or features.
Still worth buying on sale.



Now, to the proper review:

Two games come to my mind when playing this: Samurai Shodown and Bushido Blade.
However, Slice Dice & Rice has its own unique mechanics and gameplay, so go expecting a beast of its own kind!

The game has 4 buttons, being 3 for different attacks (light, heavy and upwards) and the forth being a button to Parry.

There is no crazy inputs, no combos, everything here is pretty straight forward, so bear in mind that in the end, Slice Dice & Rice is before anything, a mind game!



Game Modes:

Arcade - Simple and well done! I had a lot of fun with it! You must beat the arcade mode with every single char, in a specific order, to watch the entire story. First time that I see something like this being done in a fighting game, thumbs up for the devs!
(The AI is pretty oldscholl, at first, you think it's hard, but soon enough you realize some patterns and defeat the enemy with no sweat!)

Versus - Human or CPU

Dojo - It's pretty much a training mode, for now it's bareboness, hope it get more options in the future.

For now, there's no online unfortunately, but I really hope it get implemented someday! So I can get salty online, ^^

I've not played Bushido Blade. To me, the simplicity of the mechanics of Slice Dice and Rice, honed to razor sharp lethal mind games where every hit kills, reminds me more of Divekick than most things, but much less spastic and more thoughtful than Divekick. The basic attack flow is clear. Lots of parry and dash canceling, lots of really responsive options that all interact and make sense, following some clear and obvious rules quite well. (A step up from For Honor's magic guard break, I love that game but come on...)

No online MP, but I enjoy the AI. It gives me a workout and the stories are decent enough. Nice Mortal Kombat style ham, and some cool boss characters along the way. I will get my moneys worth just from the vs AI, I think.

I have only messed with three of the eight or so characters and I am enjoying the game so far. Good fun.

A good game for its price of INR 36/-, one or two sword hits kill. Interesting roster. A fighting game fan and friend introduced this to me...

Fun except that same match ups are insanely unfair and unfun to play, and if you reach an enemy in the story that's completely stonewalling you you have to restart the story to change the difficulty.

Be warned that in particular Benkei and Shinigami are extremely weak. Benkei has no range and does half the damage of other characters, while Shinigami is extremely slow with nothing to make up for it.

On top of that, the game sometimes randomly disconnects controllers, and when it reconnects Steam recognizes it but the game does not, forcing you to restart the game and restart story mode from the beginning. I wish I had listened to the negative reviews about technical issues before buying the game.

Neat little rock,paper & scissors fighter. Can be played together(2p) on a keyboard, controls are customizable.

You've got normal, light and heavy attacks. As well as parry and dodge, which can also be used to fake. This combined with jumping attacks.
Simplicity comes with not being able to combo this stuff. Then again, most of the time you'll die in 1 hit.

Artwork and Soundtrack are decent.
Worth picking up for a night when you have a friend over.