Two punches, a leg sweep, or a dive kick will knock someone down, crouching and pressing the attack button again will perform a spine rip. You can also fight with your fists, although the disadvantage there is limited reach and having to get close quarters. If you change heights while under or over a sword, you can disarm the other person, giving you an advantage to attack.
You can lunge at the opponent with the attack button and if their sword is at a different height, they will be killed. The interesting thing about the sword is that you can just stand there and if the opponent touches the sword they will fall onto it, making the entire mechanic similar to zoning in a traditional fighting game. With the sword you can fence with the other player using up or down to change the height of your sword. It’s a really interesting reverse tug of war mechanic where picking your fights appropriately is incentivised. Once you have ‘advantage’ you can run to the end, provided you don’t get killed yourself, then you need to kill your opponent again in order to go your way again.
To get to the next screen, you must kill the opponent, and run while he respawns in front of you on the next screen. The goal is to get to your side of the level by going through multiple screens. By the time I had finished that half hour, I definitely had the basics down.
NIDHOGG TOURNAMENT HOW TO
I played through the single player in about a half hour, from not knowing how to play the game properly. The single player is totally serviceable but this game truly shines in its multiplayer. I would like to preface this by saying that Nidhogg is best played with friends. Although that is relevant and true, Nidhogg in this context, is a 2D fencing game in which two people battle to reach their side of a level where they then get eaten by Nidhogg. What do you know about Nidhogg? The people reading this versed in Norse mythology may think Nidhogg is a dragon that gnaws on the roots of the Earth tree, Yggdrasill. It was very, very hard to put down Nidhogg to write this review.
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