In the world of video games, there are a variety of genres seemingly suited to anyone’s needs: Japanese role-playing games, modern military first-person shooters, light-hearted platformers, and dungeon crawler beat-em-ups set within a post-apocalyptic World War II theme.

Wait, what?

Solely occupying that last genre is Fists of Resistance (FoR),  Oxeye Game Studio’s PC-only contribution to the Humble Bundle Mojam that took place last weekend. Though it took a few days longer to finalize the playable build, FoR was at last released on Tuesday to the thousands who donated for charity. As with Mojang and Wolfire’s offerings, the genre and theme of the game was predetermined by a community fan poll, and the developers ended up with what is perhaps the most eclectic combination out of all their choices. 

According to Oxeye, FoR’s story can be summarized as the following:

You and your team are the last survivors of a genetic experiment conducted by the Nazis to create super-humans capable of immense punching and kicking power. After beating your experiment supervisors, you find yourself at the bottom level of a bunker. Your goal is simple. Get to the surface, to freedom, and beat as many Nazi’s as you can and grab their Nazi gold on your way!

The controls are deceptively simple: you punch with X and kick with Z. Using them in sync can execute small combos, such as performing the more powerful flying kicks and punches, as well as tossing objects against your enemies. As you try to escape from the randomly-generated levels of the Nazi bunker, more and more enemies will spawn, and beating them into a bloody, pixelated pulp is actually quite fun.

You can choose to collect gold from your fallen enemies, though it’s more of a way to increase your score rather than having any sort of real economic value in the game. There are also crates scattered throughout each level, with some having little bombs that are especially useful for clearing out rooms and leaving you swimming in a pool of Nazi guts and coins.

Golden keys that are collected along the way are useful for unlocking secret rooms, but it's more valuable when it can lead you to the staircase to the next level. Enemies do become noticeably tougher as you ascend the bunker -- I personally haven’t made it past level two without an army of Nazi soldiers utterly destroying me. 

The most unusual part of Fists of Resistance, however, is its sound design. Though the music is fairly enjoyable, the voice acting (some of which came from user submissions during the live stream) and sound effects are incredibly cheesy, but in the most hilarious way: the Nazis are always speaking in some kind of German gibberish when you’re around them, and when you attack, your genetically-enhanced super soldier will sometimes, inexplicably, bark like a dog. But that’s not all -- enemies will often let out one last release of their bowels as they are literally broken into dozens of pieces.

Like Catacomb Snatch and The Broadside Express before it, FoR is fun for a little while, but quickly wears thin either by frustration or annoyance. That said, if you like punching, kicking, farting sounds, and Nazi death screams then Fists of Resistance is definitely for you.