All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely targets. They have their hitpoints and their combos, and one man in this Foul Play kicks many arses. His name is Baron Dashforth, gentleman daemonologist, and I do believe you know his work. If not, for one night only, a cast and crew of hundreds have gathered to educate and entertain with the most brutally theatrical performance this side of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s chainsaw juggling version of Hamlet. Here, there will be no blood. RSI of all button-bashing fingers is likely.
Foul Play is a game with an excellent gimmick - a stage-based brawler that actually takes place on a stage. Instead of demons, the enemies you fight are actors in variously cheap costumes, from black-suited stagehands waving furniture around to emulate poltergeists, to werewolves with human faces visible under their masks. They fight and fall, only to occasionally glance up and politely crawl away once the spotlight moves on, with the 22 stages conveying the career highlights of Dashforth and (in two-player mode) his broom-swinging partner Scampwick against cardboard scenery.
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