Drill Milky Punch

Genre: Fighting, Party
Dimensions: 2D
Setting: Abstract
Players: 1-6


Till now I have only made reviews of single player games. Time for that to change. Today I’ll review Drill Milky Punch.
Drill milky punch is essentially a fighting party game, where the characters work together (or against one another) fighting thousands and thousands of enemies. The main feature is the ability to play with up to 5 buddies (yes that’s right, 6 players in total).

The game uses 4 buttons (you’ll probably use just use attack and maybe pause to go to the toilet). The most used button is attack, it attacks the enemy and launches him backward, if he hits someone that person also flies backwards. So this usually results in waves of destruction, by hitting only one enemy. The next button is stun, it stuns the enemies for a couple of seconds. I really don’t know who uses this, because almost every hit results in an instant kill (except for bosses). Even if you stun a boss if anything hits him the stun is over, so it’s pretty much useless. There is also a button that locates your character, so that you don’t get confused in matches with a lot of people. Finally there is the pause button which is self explanatory.

The charge attack gives this game some flavor. Once the attack becomes charged you can hurl the enemy further, making even bigger combos. The stun also has a charge, but I really don’t know whether this prolongs the stun time. You can get additional points by collecting food that enemies drop, or by throwing enemies into that food.

There are a lot of enemy types dolls, aliens, cooks, killer plants that shot fire balls. You usually have to know you to react to which enemy type in order to survive. Having yourself surrounded by killer plants almost always results in lost lives. You can take a few hits before losing one life, the invincibility time between every hit is almost nonexistent, but after you die you get a couple of seconds of invincibility. Bosses are usually the only enemies that don’t multiply and they can take a huge beating. Bosses come in the form of girls, cars, potatoes (?).

There are six characters to choose from, they all use close ranged attack, except the nekko mimi that fires an arrow. I think this makes the game a little unbalanced, especially if you are playing against someone.

Like I said the main feature of this game is playing it with someone, the more the merrier. There are 2 game modes, one is arcade mode that lasts until all the players die. The second mode is time attack where you get 2 or 5minutes to get as many points as possible. Time attack is just for one player, but you can still compete with other people by showing them your score. The arcade mode has game types when playing with more than 1 player. There is normal where players can’t hurt each other directly, nor hurt each other indirectly using enemies. The second game type is Battle Royale, Where players can fight each other.

The music is forgettable, the graphics are cute. But the backgrounds are just boring, they are always the same. You can pick one at the beginning of the stage but it remains the same during entire game.

This game only becomes really fun if you play it with someone. If you don’t have friends this game can get boring after a few time attack games, so what are you waiting for go make some friends.


Graphics: Cute characters, cute enemies. The amount of enemies can change in a second. The background is just one image.

Controls: 4 buttons. Attack (you get a charged attack by holding down attack), Critical (also has charge), find (finds you character in the chaos), pause.

Story: No story. Honestly I couldn’t figure out how they could make a story with so many different enemy types.

Gameplay: It’s really fun when you have someone to play with. It supports up to 6 playes (2 on the keyboard). 

Replay value: Alone, none. The more people the longer its replay value.

Best moment: Cleaning the entire screen by hitting one enemy with a charged attack.

Official site: http://www13.plala.or.jp/french/dmp.htm