If you were looking for a 3D animation tool where you move joints freely, at your own discretion, without regards to physics, close this tab.

This is a physics-based game, where you control 20 joints with 4 states each. It has the most ridiculously high skill ceiling that I have ever seen. And I love it to bits.

Some of you may find the controls daunting in the sense that it gives way too much freedom for comfort. And I understand that. It takes a loooong time to learn how the joints work, and even more time to know how to move them well. But if you have ever remembered the glorious stick animations in the Newgrounds days and you wish to recreate those in extremely technical and challenging ways, in a physics-based fighting game, no less, as I have, then you might be inspired enough to struggle through hundreds of hours of being bad at the game. I mean, look at the cool stuff people do at the trailers. If you have already tried this game a little, do you not want to imitate that?

With over one thousand hours at the game, I'm not even close to being the best. And that's fine. This is a 'play-at-your-own-pace' game, not a competition. Personally, somewhere around the 700 hour mark is when I would consider myself 'good' at the game, where I know exactly how each of the joints work by itself and with each other. Maybe that would deter some of you, thinking 'why would I need 700 hours to learn how to play the game?' Well friends, it is the journey that counts. And boy, it was fun fooling around with my stick figure and failing completely hard at what I wanted to do.

There are many different kinds of things you can dabble into because of the freedom of the control scheme. You can dismember a dummy in various creative ways. You can fight other people in multiplayer competitive mods. You can try imitating realistic martial arts with other people. You can run, then do a triple backflip, then follow it up with a butterfly kick. So on, so forth. You will never run out of things to do.

The admittedly small community is very casual, and for the most part, friendly. While the majority of it is centered around the official forums (an outdated concept), you will find no shortage of people who are willing to help each other get better at the game. I probably wouldn't have stayed this long without the community.

All in all, I do not regret any second I spent playing this game.

- sSLight