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Mr. Shifty is a fast paced action game released on the Nintendo Switch published by tinyBuild. Players play as the titular Mr. Shifty use his teleportation power to bust through a building to steal a plutonium core.
Gameplay[]
Mr. Shifty is a fast-paced action game played from the top-down perspective. The goal is to get to the floor's elevator to access the next part of the building. Mr. Shifty is skilled at close combat, able to knock out most baddies with a quick close combo. Mr. Shifty is also able to weapons including throwing tridents. Tridents are thrown in straight lines and kill all the enemies they come in contact. Mr. Shifty's teleportation is short range but can allow him to bypass doors and walls for a sneak attack.
The game has some stealth elements with enemies able to try and find the player if they spot or hear anything. The player can lose them temporarily by going through walls with teleportation, but they will use the next closest path to the player.
Plot[]
Silent protagonist Mr. Shifty, in radio contact with his superior Nyx, breaches Olympus Tower, the offices of Stone Corp. They aim to steal a dangerous weapon called the "mega-plutonium", to prevent its use for nefarious purposes by the evil Chairman Stone. Shifty infiltrates the building's lower floors and locates the mega-plutonium, but it is a decoy and a bomb. Nyx and Mr. Shifty, undaunted, decide to continue by killing Stone, who contacts Shifty by radio. Stone is impressed by Shifty's abilities and offers him a job, but Shifty ignores him. At the end of the chapter, Stone sedates Shifty with noxious gas in the elevator, saying Shifty should have accepted his offer.
Shifty awakes deep underground in a cell filled with a shift blocker, but punches through the wall to freedom. He fights his way to a computer terminal, where he re-establishes radio contact with Nyx, who guides him to the surface.
There, he encounters Stone, who seems to die in a large explosion. Nyx at first intends to extract Shifty, but they encounter Stone again soon after. Nyx, shocked, orders Shifty to kill him, but Stone disappears. He reveals that he has studied Shifty and used the real mega-plutonium as a power source for a machine that can teleport anything everywhere. Shifty battles through the many obstacles and guards that Stone shifts in his way, finally destroying the machine's core. This causes it to go haywire, shifting objects randomly, before it explodes and dies. Shifty enters Stone's office at the top of the tower, dodges the hail of gunfire from Stone's twin machine guns, and kills him.
Reception[]
- Gamespot: 8.0/10
- IGN: 6.2/10
- Metacritic: 66%
External links[]
- Mr. Shifty at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Mr. Shifty at GameFAQs