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[Gowans]

An unusual, unique and wacky pitching action game is coming to Kinect and the name of the game is Diabolical Pitch. A former pitcher now outfitted with an incredibly powerful bionic arm finds himself in a run-down, dark, and twisted amusement park. The night gets strange and intense quickly as you must use your pitching skills to survive the game of your life. Charge up your diabolical pitch to wipe out all the enemies crowding towards you. Power-ups give your throwing arm insane abilities that will give you the edge against huge mobs of enemies or even the mostfearsome boss. Kinect turns your room into a playing field and your Diabolical Pitch is the main attraction.

RELEASE DATE: 04/04/2012
PRICE: 800 MSPoints
DEVELOPER: Grasshopper Manufacture
PUBLISHER: Microsoft Game Studios
GENRE: Action & Adventure, Kinect
- Offline players 1 - 2

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[Gowans]

Thought I'd mock up a basic OT as just played this and really liked it.

I'd put it a notch under Kinect Fruit Ninja but man it's weird, a struggling baseballer falls into a crazy Donnie Darko land.

The controls are pretty decent, lots out auto aim guessing your throws but does a decent job of it, it took me a while to work out I could aim more precisely with my left arm too.

Lot a lot of pinball elements too it too for the score that I wasn't expecting.

Got through the first world and a bit before needing to have a rest, my poor shoulder.


Also the demo is borked for now.

 

[IrishNinja]

nice OT, man!
is demo only up for XBL gold members?

 

[Gowans]

nice OT, man!
is demo only up for XBL gold members?

Nah it seems like the XBLA team have forgot to put it up, they normally sort it later the same day when that happens.

 

[Hawkian]

Oh IIIIII get it.

 

[FHIZ]

Waiting for the demo to go up before I purchase. I'm not going in on blind faith for a kinect game.

 

[saichi]

don't know how I missed this but Suda is making Kinect cool and let the Otakus living the Dragonball dream!

 

[madmackem]

I kinda wish i still had a kinect as this looks very good.

 

[Gowans]

Just checked and it looks like the trial is up

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-GB/Product/Diabolical-Pitch/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258410b3c?purchase=1&DownloadType=GameDemo

 

[Alx]

Thanks, demo added to my download queue...
Unfortunately I'll probably play this game alone, and part of its originality seemed to be in the co-op motions (dual attack, revive fallen comrade, ...).

 

[BruiserBear]

Even though I own a Kinect, and am generally not that impressed with it, this looks oddly intriguing.

 

[derfybzh]

Really good ! I've lot of fun, best kinect game since Kinect Sport for me !

 

[Dog Problems]

Can't wait to try this out. Suda gets my money every time.

 

[InaudibleWhispa]

Looking forward to trying this out this weekend with some friends. The co-op stuff looks really fun.

 

[Gowans]

Man it steps it up in Horror World, I'm shagged.

Only 155 on the leaderboard so far for campaign too.

 

[zorbsie]

This is going to sound weird, but is there any jumping controls in the game? Playing in the basement and there isn't enough clearance to jump and have the kinect register it. This looks like fun though.

 

[Gowans]

I haven't done any jumping yet but you do need to raise your arms for a couple of the specials at least.

Come to think of it I did are a jumping and ducking action card but I haven't used them.

 

[Marco1]

Thanks for the OT Gowans, just purchased this and hoping to have some fun.
Suda really does understand what kinect is about and what to do with it. Until the HW can run properly then keep the games on live arcade.

 

[Meader]

This is going to sound weird, but is there any jumping controls in the game? Playing in the basement and there isn't enough clearance to jump and have the kinect register it. This looks like fun though.

Yeah there are a few instances that I've encountered so far where an enemy throws a projectile that you have to either jump or crouch to avoid, depending on the prompt shown on screen.

 

[Alx]

Tried the demo, bought the game and finished the first world. It's really fun, and original. I like it a lot.

 

[JohnnyPanda]

I haven't checked around for reviews but I wrote one up in case anyone is interested:

http://www.kinectaku.com/reviews/2012/04/diabolical_pitch_xbla

TL;DR It's pretty cool.

 

[codhand]

Review

http://www.shacknews.com/article/73172/diabolical-pitch-review

 

[rikichi]

Tried the demo, bought the game and finished the first world. It's really fun, and original. I like it a lot.

me too!

 

[see5harp]

Cool premise, really crappy game. Seriously after two levels I was feeling like an aging pitcher hoping that the coach would bring in the bullpen.

 

[Shaneus]

Love it. Love it love it love it. Not for being an amazing game but for just being camp and cool and fun and having decent production values. And for a game of this quality, it's cheap, too.

 

[EatChildren]

Our lovely Bev Chen reviewed this. Read it here.