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I know nothing about the anime series Bleach. At first I thought my ignorance would help me. I thought that I’d be able to play the game without complaining that they modeled the spikes on the hero’s hair wrong, or forgot to include my favorite character. I thought I could focus on the gameplay.
Bleach: Soul Resurrección is a “beat ’em all” game modeled on the popular Dynasty Warrior series. What that means is that the characters wander through blank, featureless tundras or castles until they encounter a swarm of enemies. Then the fighting commences, with swords slashing through the air in bright semicircles and characters leaping into the air, hanging suspended for a moment, then crashing tumultuously to the ground.

The Asskickers, as its name suggests, is a game about kicking ass. So how does this make The Asskickers different from hundreds of other videogames?
For starters, the asses in The Asskickers are all hand-drawn. Most asses in videogames these days are the result of hundreds of hours spent staring at computer screens, arranging wire-frame models into three-dimensional domes and encoding them with digital jiggles and jives. None of that happens in The Asskickers. Using a handmade aesthetic that is rarely seen in videogames these days, The Asskickers renders every object – ass or otherwise – with the lurid simplicity of a cartoon sketched onto a piece of paper or graffiti sprayed onto a wall.