((Babe, wake up, the Genital Jousting people made a weird foot fetish game))

So, I stream on Twitch, and normally I don't think thats particularly relevant information, but it is for this review.

I started my stream today playing Anger Foot, I spent a little over 3 hours having an absolute blast, and then I ran a poll while I took a short break to see if people wanted me to keep going with this or swap over to the Elden Ring DLC I haven't finished yet. Elden Ring's DLC won, and I went and played that.

The entire time that I was playing the award winning DLC for one of the most award winning-est(?) games of the last 20 years, I couldn't stop thinking "damn I wanna go play Anger Foot"

If that alone isn't enough to demonstrate how enjoyable this game is, I'll explain a bit about what I've seen so far. Assuming that there isn't some secret 5th level set (it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest), I am through 2 of the 4 main level sets and bosses at the time of reviewing.

Lets hit the big points.

FAST
Anger foot is, I would argue, more entwined with the music than a similar game (that you can get this in a bundle with) Mullet Mad Jack. There's this almost blown out quality to it, like someone's playing it through a stereo at a party and that stereos been played so loud for so long that the music coming out doesn't always sound right, but that is far from a bad thing. It fits, because the bass never f*cking stops, its the heartbeat of this game and its going at 400BPM to egg you on to stick your foot into that dude's face and ram his head into the concrete. The enemies are dancing, you're dancing in your seat playing it, the rats are dancing, and when you get killed the goons will continue twerking right over your corpse. There's "fast" games and theres games that just play quickly. I think this is the latter, in a good way. You can most definitely go as fast as you want, or you can turn off the speedrun timer and just move through the levels at a normal pace. Both ways are fun, both ways provide challenge.

FEET
Anger Foot has a lot of feet in it. Gross, gnarly feet. The game is just kinda gross and gnarly. Its set in Sh*t City, where Crime is the #1 enterprise. Thats not a joke, or at least the seriousness of that statement is the joke. An honest living in Sh*t City is stealing stuff, being in a gang, polluting. Being awful is the good way to live and Anger Foot might be fighting the local gangs but it isn't for some honorable purpose. They stole his shoes and he wants them back, thats the whole reason you massacre so many goons. Mechanically this may play as a boomer shooter, but the wiggle room for you to weave in foot smashes and the special boss-shoes that let you do dumb moves or just the normal shoes that add stuff like making everyone's head massive or making your kick into an absurd uppercut. This is definitely a feet game, and at risk of sounding like a weirdo, its better off for it.

FUNNY AS F*CK
Anger Foot has its odd premise, its speedy gameplay, its art that just oozes with all kinds of pus and piss and any other bodily secretion you can imagine, but its also extraordinarily funny. There's rooms that hold no purpose beyond posing goons in a funny manner, there's skeletons taking sh*ts, when you arent ramming your foot through every door and take a second to look around, there's a ton of tiny details that speedrunners are never going to look at twice, and that attention to the tiny things isnt just present in the level design. The dialogue is funny, the characters are funny, the motivations of some characters is funny, what they're doing is funny, how they look is funny, their names are all punny and its all wrapped in a neat little bow that your gimp-suit wearing girlfriend (who is absurdly thicc) spit on before she gave it to you.

This is a weirdo game for weirdos, but its also an excessively enjoyable game for people that just like good games. I have a habit of breaking Devolver published games (see Pepper Grinder/Cult of the Lamb) but aside from two tiny areas of a noticeable but tolerable performance dip this game has run and played flawlessly.

Anger Foot is probably going to be one of my favorite games this entire year, and even beyond. I'm gonna go finish the game, but pick it up for yourself and see what I'm talking about. Thanks for reading.

edit: Finished the base game (not the challenges) and my opinion only improved by the time the credits were over. One note worth an edit, though, there is one REALLY bad performance sequence where there's so many bodies on screen that the game just crawls to a halt. If they get that sequence and the few other performance dip sections (mostly outside areas or where they load multiple insides of buildings it seems) this is an easy top 10 of 2024 for me. They already fixed the jumps between buildings being too tight, so I imagine some performance hotfixes for those parts are coming down the pipe too. Great game from a great team that always delivers.