Way of the Exploding Stick
A collaboration between "Jez" and Zhu Zhiqiang, making a fuller beat-em-up based on Zhu's "Xiao Xiao" series of stick figure fight animations and games. It was the 5th and final playable entry in the series.
Way of the Exploding Stick is a hack and slash/beat 'em up, released 4 March 2002 on Web browser.
What Way of the Exploding Stick is
Way of the Exploding Stick was released in 2002. It is available on Web browser only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A collaboration between "Jez" and Zhu Zhiqiang, making a fuller beat-em-up based on Zhu's "Xiao Xiao" series of stick figure fight animations and games. It was the 5th and final playable entry in the series.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Way of the Exploding Stick launched on 4 March 2002, within three weeks of Resident Evil (2002), Resident Evil, Jet Set Radio Future and Enclave.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil (2002), Resident Evil, Jet Set Radio Future, Enclave.
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