The community seems to be surprisingly positive and even losers are good sports about it. It also didn’t take me longer than a minute to get into a match, meaning the turnover is usually pretty quick and action paced. In SAR the movement of the poison cloud is pretty steady, and all totaled the matches probably don’t last longer than five minutes. If you’re caught outside the safety circle, your health will rapidly deteriorate and you will die. But hey, it’s fun.Īs you play, a poison cloud, presumably released by the safari park owners, seeps into the park. This can actually make for some interesting tactical maneuvers mid fight, even allowing you to circle behind an opponent and blast them. If there is something between you and an opponent, such as a rock, then you won’t see them. You can only see enemies that appear within your direct line of sight. One element that makes SAR stand out from other BRs is the fog of war system.
Again, all very basic Battle Royale stuff. The higher the tier, the better damage or protection the item offers. If it goes higher than that, I didn’t see it. You can also find grenades to throw, armor, and ‘health juice’ which you can drink to replenish your health bar if you’ve taken damage in a firefight and managed to walk away.
Because, as the developers point out on the store page for the game, “That’s what you do with tall grass.” You can also find weapons by chopping down tall grass. You then run around breaking boxes and finding guns stashed in buildings. As with many BR games you’re dropped into the arena map with just a melee weapon. Unlocking these critters seems to be the only real point in playing, other than just the fun of playing a Battle Royale.Īs for playing Battle Royales, the simplistic nature of SAR makes it fun. Each species also has a variety of subspecies. Your first ‘unlockable’ recipe will be Skullcats. After that you’ll also gain bears and some others. Your first fight you’ll have access to a fox. These unlocks are your actual animal that you take into battle. Leveling up lets you obtain advanced recipes for unlocks. Yes… giant hamster balls… of death.Īs you complete matches you, the player, level up. At least they do the murder thing in the cutest way possible, with little dances and celebrations and giant hamster balls. The animals have taken control and are on a rampage out murdering each other. The story is that you are one of a number of intelligent animals in a safari theme park. This is, to me, actually a very good thing. To be quite frank, SAR is a pretty boiled down game without a ton of flashy frills in regards to gameplay. Super Animal Royale (which I’m going to call “ SAR” for the rest of this review for brevity’s sake) has all the classic elements of a Battle Royale, but is one of the rarer sub-genre of 2D BR games.
To be quite candid, I’m sick of Battle Royales.īe that as it may, my time spent with Super Animal Royale wasn’t as painful as it could have been.
#SUPER ANIMAL ROYALE GENRES HOW TO#
They’re on every platform imaginable, and I imagine if someone figured out how to network them they would create a Battle Royale for the TI-85 scientific calculator. The most popular of the genre are Fortnite and PUBG, with a plethora of clones and ripoffs of those titles out there. Battle Royales are a dime a dozen these days with a wide variety of options and play styles. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: 2018 was year of the Battle Royales, much in the way 2015 was year of the MOBA and 2016 was year of the Survival Horror.