awesome vid, thank you for covering my game :D

“Chess/tactics” should be a standard issue bonus gamemode for all fighting games. I want to recreate a version of this as a third strike rom hack so bad

One of the coolest things in YOMIH singleplayer is that you have control over both players, meaning you can construct even cooler fight scenes with crazy chains of clashes, combos and back and forth fisticuffs.

6:49 I remember a fight with my toys like 25 years ago, where a Lego character and a Coca-Cola ice toy fought for more than 1 hour, and that move was the finishing blow (Scale up multihits, then drop to the floor, like Rock Lee... Holy fk) I'll try this when possible, the goosebump was an pleasant surprise; thanks man

"Just Lemme Cook" Proceeds to make the most delicious meal I've seen

The idea of "Gun Flame" dust loops is hilarious to me, honestly...

6:56 Yomi moment #37

the YOMI hustle modding community is so amazing, making original hustlers from scratch or trying to get some of their favorite video characters into the game oh and btw someone made michael jackson as a playable character

Honestly, I'd love to see the tools Yomi Hustle has brought into a fighting game's training mode. For something like an Indie fighter where people are probably not going to invest the same level of commitment to compared to a more mainstream fighter, letting people discover combos and optimize quickly is healthy for the game. Bonus, If we're looking for casual appeal (which I do agree we need more of), a good place to start would be lowering the barrier to entry for people to participate in the discussion about a character in a game, and letting people with 0 execution still imagine new combo routes for a character sounds like a great idea.

There's something magical about genuinely controlling both characters to the most effective way possible. Instead of going for the longest coolest combo with one character while the other one sandbags and DIs badly to allow it to happen, having the other character fighting back and doing the best answer to the moves being thrown at them. You learn some really freaky move interactions from it. As well as finding setups which are genuinely hard to escape from.

GUYS! Please, check out Toribash! They implemented similar idea 20 years ago, and in 3d. And the game is still alive.

*Mad* props for using "The Great Empress" from the _♯R_ Korean OST. That soundtrack may not always have been on point, but when it hit, it hit *hard.*

I'm like 90% sure "yomi" in Japanese is the word for something like the art of preempting an opponent's move in combat (like Yomi counter in Sirlin's Fantasy Strike based entirely on the hardest of hard reads) and so the full title of "Hustle" and it's nickname were anything but an accident.

0:05 O M G XD Clever renaming!

Haven't finished the whole video, but I fully agree on the single player segment. My brother and I play fighting games but he was never fully interested in the whole neutral, pressure, blockstrings, mixups, whatever... but all he wanted was to see a cool fight. Yomi hustle's single player mode is his most played mode by far in every fighting game I've played with him. It just makes me wish that every other fighting game now has this feature. Maybe call it "Cinematic mode" where like in Yomi hustle, choreograph an entire fight. It'd allow us to create our own cool fight scenes, allow people to see what truly is possible for each character when executed frame perfectly, lab combos without the worry of input error, and honestly, makes cool free gameplay trailers.

This looks crazy! Can't wait for TAS channels to get their hands on Hustle and make their own crazy combos

In multiplayer mode, you can also see which moves are available for the opponent which is very useful. Also, the singleplayer mode also serve to train and test the characters's abilities.

Such a good video, thank you for letting more people know about this awesome game :)

Man, this reminds me of Toribash.

I'm glad to see this game getting more recognition. One thing that I find really cool is the mods, as people have made so many custom characters that can do some crazy cool combos.

You might want to check your audio equipment, there's a persistent buzzing to your voice recording throughout the video. Other than that, great work as always.

This was awesome! Not only did you provide an excellent summary that pointed out what makes this game interesting and unique, but you did it in only 5 minutes and still had time to show off what makes it so satisfying.

The thing I always loved the most about fighting games (and any game that has a roster of characters to pick from) is Creative Expression. Fighting games as a competition, by default has to find the best and most efficient way to win usually forsaking creativity in favor of efficiency. Single Player YOMIHustle is a Creative Expression canvas. Multiplayer YOMIHustle is an anime fight where you see time the way anime characters see it (Jotaro's Stand active at all times, essentially) - AND you get to see it in real time as a consolation for getting your ass handed to you in the flashiest way possible.

Thanks for introducing us to this game! Never heard of it before and I love it already!!

The game I'd like you to have a look at is "fatal art reload". It is by far my favorite game by feel, it is unbelievably responsive and is just super overlooked. It has amazing combos, a ton of player expression and there are so many interesting character playstyles that I have unironically gotten 4 of my friends to play it. And the usually only play shooters.

THE DAIGO PARRY LMAO

best things in yomi: - predicting bursts - 20-hit mage combo when u attack while the fire attack is going on - comboing with ur orb - juggling enemies with the grappling hook as ninja - dashing through mage projectiles - first turn impale - backswaying fools who dont know what a free cancel is

what a bizarre but oddly fascinating concept! Thank you A.B.I and Kura

6:55 You will never, ever catch me getting bored of an EVO2004-esque perfect parry sequence.

Ngl, I didn't see the appeal of single player Hustle, having almost exclusively played multi-player. After watching this video, I get it. Thank you. I'm going to have to hop in the lab and cook.

Nice vid and cool combos too! Also I wanted to let it be known that the background music you have got me mixed up. The bass part panned exclusively left is so subtle that I believed your mic was messing up and I only realised after the video that it was the musician hitting me with crossup shenanigans lol.

I got this game as a gift early last week and I can confirm. Everything you said is BEYOND TRUE! (ahem) GUNFLAME

Thanks for making me burst out laughing. Let's go Justin

Glad to see this game covered, Nice combo vid too :D

Thank you so much for introducing this to me! This game is a work of art!

Great video as always ABI!

Great work! I love Yom--er, Your Only Move Is Hustle. I'm in it for the competitive aspect, personally, but I do really love the combo engineering aspect of the game. Great analogy by the way!

really good video! It would be really cool if you made a video of Battle Craze, the animation, characters and ideas in that game are amazing.

We’re getting closer to: FGCCG HarmoniArena, rhythmic fighting!

that switch out at 1:45 is incredible

I haven't tried to the singleplayer but I cannot imagine it being better than Versus. Most of the fun for me is choosing the "correct" option under pressure, like speed-chess. Even better if you have an opponent you play with regularly because then the layers get real deep. I also noticed I win way more against my rival because he is better at execution in regular FGs

Great vid as always

Technically speaking, Under Night In-Birth is an indie franchise despite having Arc Sys ties. Just wanted to say.

Only played it once with a friend, I went wizard and he went cowboy, after spending every bullet in the first 6 interactions, I overwhelemed him with the orbs and just filled the screen with BS until our other friends came on discord so he left so we could all play LoL together. Does that count as rage quit?

In Devil May Cry terms, all the fights combined into one ranking. I'm gonna give it a total of "B - badass" the ranking would be higher but there were a lot of moves repeating and hits taken. Obviously I keed, it looked pretty damn cool. The last two or three fights were the bees knees, so many badass attack cancels(dunno the proper terminology, but it's where you both attack at the same time, and take no damage)

So this entire game, you just... Do the hustle -shiny flute melody-

“Let’s go Justiiiin!” Lol

Great video, thanks. I know that it's passed Halloween, but I was really interested in what your idea of Magic in Fighting Games was? If you still planned to talk about that anyway.

Fun fact: The whip wave infinite is known among ninja players as "gaysex". That is all.

Damn, that montage was sick

I was playing this game for about a month during its itchio era and honestly loved the multiplayer. I was one of those people that would just throw a block in the middle of a combo string when I knew the burst was coming or just on round start to make them waste their resources on cancels and their disconnects filled me with joy. Never really dabbled with the single player stuff as DI and scaling changed each link DRAMATICALLY and any player worth their turn timers fucked with that dial every chance they got but these montages always were a fun watch.

This is cool. It's like Toribash resurrected for the modern era as a 2d game

this really reminds me of toribash. but one thing hustle does that toribash doesn’t, is limit the players options. You have moves and skills you can use here. on the other hand you can only move your limbs in toribash. it’s a lot less restrictive and i appreciate it, plus it’s just cool

YO, A.B.I. can cook up a delicious combo video!

3:00 Reminded me, of all things, of Twilight movies Twice an epic battle was all in their heads XD

I randomly picked this game up on a lark when I saw a classmate messing around on it at school, tried single player, and had zero clue what the hell I was doing; way too much info being thrown at me at once, couldn’t tell how things like DI worked or what some options did, etc. Think I should try the Discord. I think doing something like this for a more traditional fighting game (something like UNIST) would be awesome and likely more approachable.

good series!

Ah, so THIS is what those stick figure animations you were posting on Twitter were.

Ah, my favorite game. Violence chess

this could be a great learning tool for the future of fighting games, imagine being able to save your replays in game just like GG or even Smash lets you, and being able to analize different options on certain interactions or even simulate others just to see the outcome of every decision, or being able to lab a combo being assisted by tools just to know if you can do something specific but its very tight or if the game straight doesnt let you. i wish fighting games embrace these kind of things, even slowing down the gameplay or showing frame data, hitboxes and all of that would benefit a lot of the new and medium players, its the thing i dont like of certaing fighting games like KOF even tho its by far my favorite and the one i want to learn, its a really hard entry point because the training mode doesnt let you learn nothing and gives you zero feedback nor tools.

4:40 you smell that? its sugarpunch COOKING

😆Nice combo video

I've always wanted a game exactly like this.

Hyun's Dojo mentioned pog

Hearing Nikke's BGM in this video, And that Daigo Parry made me like the video more 🤣

p Toribash, which is a much older execution of the same mechanical premise, but in 3D

Someone must’ve been playing Toribash before they started making this

The combo clip is dope! Is that also Nikke bgm I hear?

If someone makes this an accessible interface and character visuals (e.g. card layout and HD sprites), amazing future for this.

My only thing with the multiplayer is I wish you could see the frame data of moves before selecting them. Nothing fancy just startup/active/recovery

The Neko Arc intro made me laugh harder than ot probably should have.

damn those combos are actually very hard. how the hell

I hope you make an update video on your thoughts on Street Fighter 6, your video of its reveal was pretty negative and it would be interesting to have an update on your thoughts now that there is so much more information and animation to dissect and i think its fair to say your last video on it is pretty much defunct.

Love the infinite combo with 6 different resets XD

Wait, I remembered it's called Yomi Hustle back then.. What happened?? Inb4 I bet it's got something to do with something that rhymes with Sirloin.

Post more combos of hustle was KZfaq shorts, I will watch them for sure

I'll look it up anyway, just cause i love the look and your coverage, but a link to the game somewhere would be nice.

Know that the daigo parry reference did not go unapreciated.

why does the cowboy have a sword

NEW SUGAR PUNCH

kickboxing in fighting games for your next video?

I know I like loud static in the beginning of videos

HE MADE THE VID

My favorite thing to do is use 2 characters in a 1v1 against myself and see how I can combo with both of them, and acting like I would for each of them in a 1v1

my god the DI scale would turn into a dash at 114 combo

You must make an episode on Divekick.

basically 2D toribash

"Let's go Justin" lol

Yo let's go ymoi hustle Speaking of which you should also try Fatal Art: reloaded .

1. Yomi as in Senran Kagura? She's pretty big. 2. Who's the other Yomi?

I will get the game when there is a grappler/luchador/wrestler type

aaah toribashi... we meet again

Hey that reminds me of how Toribash fighting works! Damn it's been a long time since I've thought about Toribash, wonder if it's still around.

Speaking of YOMI You got plans to do that card game and fantasy strike?

What is the music in the bones clip from. Besides guilty gear.

I hope he makes a video for knockout

Has anyone notice that they didn't mention Jenova on this channel in ages?

"NO TUTORIAL NEEDED" was a fuckin lie

God this game is fun

remember toribash!!! that was my ish.