The Joy of Beat ’em Ups.

There’s something about beat ’em ups, i. e., the video games where you generally walk from left to right on a screen and press (seemingly, at least) the same button to hit enemies in the same ways for about twenty minutes, until you turn it off, because you’re like, “What am I doing, here?”

And that is that it actually opens up to you, in the same way that fighting games and racing games do. If only you realize that the appeal of the games, at least as I’ve been finding out, is actually getting good at handling the endless waves of enemies, and also doing the slightly different things that you actually can do (although I still am not exactly sure, or even in any way sure, maybe, how to do the throw attacks that I somehow keep being able, to do), maybe even on command, if it’s not random, which it feels like it is. But, maybe not?