Floor Kids lets you take your budding crew of bboys and bgirls to the streets of the city, busting moves all over town to build up your rep. It’ll be up to you to pick the moves you use and make it all flow together well, transitioning from all kinds of breakdancing moves in order to create the most impressive show you can manage. Just try not to fall flat on your face while you’re at it.
In Floor Kids, you will breakdance in eight venues, from street corners to clubs, coming up with a unique dance for each of the game’s forty tracks. These moves, chosen from among sixteen different ones, can be chosen whenever you like, but it’s important that you feel out the beat to know when you should shift from one to another, getting that sense of rhythm and timing as you grow your breakdancing rep. Make too many clumsy choices and you can expect to wipe out, and the audience may also throw insults your way that also take the feet out from under you if you aren’t careful.
That freedom to move, as well as the hundred different hand-drawn transitions between each one of the moves, give Floor Kids a real sense of choice that doesn’t appear to often in rhythm games, and makes this one special. You’re not just trying to keep the beat, but feel the beat yourself, choosing how to move along with it. Or, better yet, feeling out how to move with it, allowing the music to inhabit you for a while and be carried along with it. Capturing that couldn’t have been easy, and it;’s something that makes Floor Kids well worth checking out.
Floor Kids is available for $ 19.99 from Steam and the Nintendo eShop (PS4/Xbox One versions are ‘coming soon’). For more information on the game and developer MERJ Media, you can head to the game’s site or follow them on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter.
