I don’t know anything about One Punch Man, but I’m going to play his new video game because it’s got a brilliant and hilarious mechanic I can’t wait to try.
One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Known is a video game, I have discovered, that is coming out for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One soon. I wouldn’t normally care. It looks like standard Bandai Namco anime character beat ’em up fare. I mean, it’s not a fighting game, is it?
But wait! A hero always arrives late, the trailer declares. What’s this? A Hero Arrival System! Okay… this is awesome.
One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows Gameplay Trailer – Gamescom 2019 Watch on YouTube
Here’s how it works: the better you fight, the faster One Punch Man will join the battle. You can see a little picture-in-picture live feed of him running to where you’re fighting as you’re fighting. The countdown shows you when he’ll arrive. All you have to do is survive until he turns up, and then he punches your opponent over the horizon – presumably to their death.