Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn

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6.7

Mixed or average reviews- based on 23 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 4 out of 23
  3. Negative: 7 out of 23

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  1. BillyBillyBoBil
    Jun 5, 2018
    10
    As more worthless games come and go, Shaq-Fu is here to stay. Shaq-Fu is possibly the greatest experience created by humans, and for humans. By combining the likes of Gahndi, Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Fred Figglehorn, you are left with Shaq-Fu: A Legend Reborn.

    If you haven't played the most sunning human achievement of all time that is this game,    As more worthless games come and go, Shaq-Fu is here to stay. Shaq-Fu is possibly the greatest experience created by humans, and for humans. By combining the likes of Gahndi, Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Fred Figglehorn, you are left with Shaq-Fu: A Legend Reborn.

    If you haven't played the most sunning human achievement of all time that is this game, don't read ahead, unless you want to ruin your life. Shaq-Fu: A Legend Reborn follows the story of Shaq Fe-Hung from the Chinese town Hung-Lo. He abandons his mother to fight against the demons that Yen-Lo-Weng has sent to Earth. He trains with his mentor Ye-Ye until he is murdered by the minions of of Yen-Lo-Weng. As Ye-Ye utters his last breath, he tells Shaq that Yen-Lo-Weng has sent demons to Earth disguised as celebrities, and Shaq must kill these celebrities and save humanity. All the characters are so in-depth and brought out to the public. They are so bright with personality, whether it's being caring, or being edgy, or determined enough to save the world, Shaq-Fu has all of it there.

    Along with the riveting and heart-wrenching story, Shaq-Fu: A Legend Reborn also excels in the aspect of gameplay. Shaq is an outstanding choice for the protaganist of this game and it shows in his personality, attitude, and his gameplay style. He can use multiple attacks and use a super attack, which may have drawn inspiration from Mega Man, but done much better, as Mega Man pales in comparison to this masterpiece of all media and enterntainment. The games focus, as I mentioned, is on Shaq's multiple superhuman abilities to defeat the evil celebrities.

    Plus the presentation is stunning running at 12K on all platform including the Atari 2600. Whoops! It seems as though I forgot to mention that this game is playable on every single games console in existence, while being able to play the same high in technicality controls, gameplay, along with the high definition graphics. Consoles from the Atari 2600 to the Nintendo Gamecube to the XBOX One, Shaq-Fu runs like a dream on all platforms and plays with the same controls while being locked at 10,000 fps.

    Overall Shaq-Fu: A Legend Reborn is definitely the greatest piece of media in the history of all humans. This game will soon hang in a museum, in it's own concealed room, away from the garbage such as the Mona Lisa and Starry Night, on it's own, where it belongs, admired by all, old and young.    … Expand
  2. Imbeinghonest
    Jun 5, 2018
    10
    Shaq fu: a legend reborn is a game that is ahead of it's time and will make every other game you play or have played a complete disappointment. The jokes that Shaq says out of his mouth are cleverly written and will never get old. The game plays like a 90's arcade beat-em-up that will keep you hooked for hours. Shaq Fu; A Legend Reborn is a title you should not miss out on purchasing.
  3. jimbowimbo23
    Jun 5, 2018
    10
    I never thought a game would receive the midas touch of gold, but I was completely wrong. There has never been a better game created. Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn simply cannot be touched.
  4. BlazingLlama420
    Jun 5, 2018
    10
    S H A Q F U

    G E T D O W N W I T H T H E C R E W

    G E T T I N I N Y O U R W A Y

    I M C O M I N F O R Y O U

    S H A Q F U

    10/10 better than despacito 2
  5. TheProGamer-
    Jun 13, 2018
    4
    Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn forces old, outdated jokes that you just can't laugh at no matter how hard you try. The controls are clunky, the terrible hitboxes annoyed the heck out of me. You can knock the game out in no time. A good few hour session would manage it however it just felt like a chore to finish. I would avoid this, even with the low price tag.
  6. ShaqFu
    Jun 6, 2018
    10
    The most amazing achievement of mankind! I love this game and have been waiting for months for it to be released. 10/10
  7. SuperkenGaming
    Jun 5, 2018
    5
    Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn
    Shaq is back
    A Legend Reborn is a 3 hour long beat up game where you play a once ordinary Chinese boy shaquille o niel however you weren’t as ordinary as you think you have the mark.. the mysterious birth mark of the chosen on So you set out to take down celebrities to get one step closer to taking down yen lo wang as the prophecies have for told… And this    Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn
    Shaq is back
    A Legend Reborn is a 3 hour long beat up game where you play a once ordinary Chinese boy shaquille o niel
    however you weren’t as ordinary as you think
    you have the mark..
    the mysterious birth mark of the chosen on
    So you set out to take down celebrities to get one step closer to taking down yen lo wang as the prophecies have for told…
    And this game is just not fun.
    Shaq Fu tries to do the whole Suda51 thing which is really its only saving grace
    its full of pop culture references, one of the boss battles is against what I’m assuming is kim kardashians butt though in the game shes given a different name.. but we know the truth…
    youll be taking on a number of others here as well that I wont spoil, but every level ends in a boss fight..
    These levels though just drag on forever..
    back to the suda 51 thing.. the constant jokes are the only thing that kept me going through this game..
    however theyre poorly delivered by the game..
    not the voice actors..
    the voice acting is fine, the writing is great..
    it just feels so awkwardly placed in game.. there are never smooth transitions such as moments where shaq breaks the 4th wall to tell the game designer to stop with the endless waves of enemies..
    and I wish he would’ve taken shaqs advice..
    all enemies in every level is pretty much the same enemy with a different skin, and youre mashing buttons punching and kicking filling up a meter to unlock a powerful move rinse and repeat until you get to a boss fight, which is the only fun moments of the game..
    but from the beginning of a level to the boss is just a monotonous grind with the occasional fun moments of being big deiseal or shactus slicing through enemies like warm butter while the game slaps you with some pretty offensive stuff and the occasional icy hot patch
    Shaq Fu A legend reborn is a functioning game but that’s about it..
    its playable though a boss fight against paris Hilton stopped working twice forcing me to restart.
    the ridiculous humor is all this game has going for it.. and with the poor delivery of the humor through the game, saying that is even a stretch,
    I give Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn
    a 4.5/10    … Expand
  8. CreativeCritics
    Jun 9, 2018
    2
    This game is a cash grab. Please watch gameplay footage before purchasing or playing. Controls are not smooth or inititutive. There are much better beat em ups games out there
  9. QueuethuluGames
    Jun 7, 2018
    3
    Over the years I've been to many conventions as a writer. I spend about half my time taking photos and the rest getting drunk and talking about video games. Usually the conversation goes to that dark place...

    "What's the worst game ever?" I always say Bubsy but I have a long standing and very vocal hatred for that bastard. Back in the day this question usually boiled town to some    Over the years I've been to many conventions as a writer. I spend about half my time taking photos and the rest getting drunk and talking about video games. Usually the conversation goes to that dark place...

    "What's the worst game ever?"

    I always say Bubsy but I have a long standing and very vocal hatred for that bastard. Back in the day this question usually boiled town to some solid choices, however I usually got told Shaq Fu. That being said, imagine my surprise when I find out there was a crowd funded... reimagining... seems like an appropriate word.

    Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn is definitely a game. It's on the PlayStation store and it loads up. Playing it on the other hand is slightly more like forgetting that River City Ransom Underground, Scott Pilgrim, Castle Crashers and of the other much more polished and functional beat 'em ups that have come out in these last years.

    That out of the way let's delve into Big Deez Productions’ freshman effort, shall we?

    The game starts with a stylized comic intro. Stating that the story is, "convoluted and full of holes," may have been funny at one point but it is an appropriate warningof what's to come. Baby Shaq is in a bag in the river, adopted by a nice lady and learns kung fu, leaving out his signature elbow, but the body check is still there... Then again MMA fighting has more authentic Kung Fu than this game.

    When you get into the game proper it looks decent, however suffers from some slowdown on a PS4 regular (did not get to test it on a Pro) which was mildly concerning on stage one. Then I started noticing small things, quite a few of them in fact. The writing is god awful, as a mix of bad jokes, one liners and relics that should have been left in the past. They played with the 3d a bit like Ninja Turtles or Battletoads when hitting enemies into the screen. When you roll a "soda keg" into foes it does a bowling strike sound, small things that are nice. Jokes about China's population, calling his master ye-ye which means "granddad" and the absurd, "let's slow this down on this enemy so we can show off" starting grating on me minutes into the game. They studied other beat em ups and took bad elements or pale imitations, and for all of that still have limited enemy variety, fart jokes, fat jokes, boring combat and of course Shaq rapping again.

    My fiancee sat there, watching me play dead eyed, like a stone faced gargoyle, unimpressed by the game. Soulless. Like, I was just a droid on autopilot. Hostage stare – seen some **** almost thousand-yard stare. Too damaged at this point to react at all to anything else game presented.

    I may be embellishing a bit. This isn't a bad game per se, it's thouroughly unremarkable. I will not remember anything of this game in a week. Why would I waste my beautiful mind on a thing like this? It's offensive, but not in a clever way like Postal 2 is where it's meant to be absurd. Shaq Fu has the issue Duke Nukem Forever does where it thinks it's better than it is. Like Duke mocking Halo, Shaq Fu mocks celeb worship, which is funny coming from a has been, mocking celebrities that are and continue to be more relevant than he is.

    Most people won’t know Chinese mythology, but that they just used Guan Yu instead of coming up with anything of their own kind of speaks to a larger problem – for the most part, they don’t CREATE anything. They just frantically mash things they want to mock together like a shipper mashing action figures together to make them kiss. Instead of true parody, which creates new from given things it’s mocking, this is more “parody” which either just does the same thing as what it mocks (and then uses “parody” to justify it) or pretty much gives the exact same interpretation of what they’re mocking with no real thought or creativity. IT’S JUSTIN BIEBER. BUT WITH CHICKEN BAZOOKAS. It’s like… teenage moron “creativity?” And unlike the few games where that works, here it’s just more wtf.

    Demons replace female characters, which would be good except you wonder if this is the way the developer sees women. Fangs, horns and shrill voices seems more like gynophobia rather than clever enemy design. I stopped on level two. The overly effeminate guys in Jean shorts and cut tees with a typical lisp wasn't funny, it was homophobic. I thought dudebros because of the steroids on the levels, but looking back it is literally gay bashing.

    Maybe if Shaq Fu used more icy hot it would have the flexibility to be a real game. That being said, I recommend anyone steer clear of this one. You're better off playing the original. Apparently the French, unlike what they claimed in the fundraiser video, actually knew what they were doing.

    3/10    … Expand
  10. ConCitySoldier
    Aug 15, 2022
    10
    Same as the PS4 version. Very fun and entertaining. Gameplay moves smooth and Shaq makes you laugh throughout the game with his humorous comments. It’s an amazing game. If you want to have fun and not always play serious boring game after game you will enjoy this one. If you play it on hard the bosses can be quite difficult but it’s all about strategy. Once you figure out what works itSame as the PS4 version. Very fun and entertaining. Gameplay moves smooth and Shaq makes you laugh throughout the game with his humorous comments. It’s an amazing game. If you want to have fun and not always play serious boring game after game you will enjoy this one. If you play it on hard the bosses can be quite difficult but it’s all about strategy. Once you figure out what works it becomes easier.… Expand
  11. moranop
    Aug 25, 2020
    10
    I liked the game. The story is good and the graphics are great. A little repetitive and short.

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30

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 4 out of 4
  1. CD-Action
    Sep 27, 2018
    25
    I honestly don’t know why someone thought Shaq Fu needs to be reborn and how the word “legend” fits the picture. [08/2018, p.86]
  2. GameStar
    Jul 30, 2018
    29
    In all respects an uncalled-for continuation of one of the supposedly worst games ever. Yes, the original was better.
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  3. Jeuxvideo.com
    Jul 19, 2018
    45
    Trying to play the nostalgia chord is risky, because it has its own limits. It shows, in Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn. Despite its hilarious scenario, the game is repetitive and devoid of any attempt to create something new.
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