Review: Bud Spencer & Terence Hill – Slaps and Beans (Switch eShop)

Slappers only!

Violence solves nothing… unless you’re in a Bud Spencer and Terence Hill movie, then it pretty much solves everything. If you are part of the generation which grew up in the ’70s and ’80s, it was impossible to avoid the Italian duo’s numerous adventures during afternoon movie sessions on television. The sets varied from spaghetti westerns to modern day locations, but the plot was usually the same: baby-faced Terence Hill would get in trouble with the local ruffians and inadvertently drag jolly giant Bud Spencer into the mess. The many, many humorous slap-based fighting choreographies they used would entertain us no end.

Yet it took all these decades for the duo to jump from cinema to video games. And of course it’s a side-scrolling beat’em up. Slaps and Beans is the exact kind of game one would expect to find in an early ’90s arcade salon alongside similar offerings from Konami, Capcom or Data East. But are these beans worth cooking (and consuming) today?

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