10 Most Underrated & Overlooked Nintendo Switch Games
3. Mr. Shifty
Where Hotline Miami specialised in the brute power of visceral, blood-spattered gore and synthwave beats (something that makes it one of the best games of all time), Mr. Shifty takes that top-down perspective and 'waves-of-enemies' attitude, and applies superpowers.
Both a one button teleport and super-strength are on the cards, meaning as you advance up a random crime boss' skyscraper, you're levelling dudes that come your way. Remember that Nightcrawler scene from the opening of X-Men 2? It's that, if Kurt Wagner could've hit with the force of a wrecking ball.
You'll send entire squads of people flying across rooms, through tables, into bookcases and out windows. You'll grab pieces of furniture, pots, broken tridents from statues and fling them at your enemies. You'll even dodge bullets to activate a super slow-motion mode, lamping goons straight in the face and hearing the wet squelch of their bodies crumple against the walls.
It doesn't beat the synaptic flick of Hotline Miami, but as a more kid-friendly alternative with some fantastically fun debut mechanics, Mr. Shifty gets a great many things very right.