Toribash
{{Short description|2006 video game}}
{{Infobox video game
|title = Toribash
|image = Toribash logo.jpg
|developer = Nabi Studios
|publisher = Nicalis
|released = Windows{{Video game release|WW|March 2, 2006}}Wii{{Video game release|EU|July 9, 2010|NA|July 12, 2010}}Linux, OS X{{Video game release|WW|May 16, 2014}}
|genre = Fighting
|modes = Single-player, multiplayer
|platforms = Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, Wii
}}
Toribash is a free-to-play turn-based third-person fighting game created by Singaporean developer Nabi Studios and published by Nicalis, which released on Microsoft Windows in 2006. A port for the Wii was released in July 2010,{{Cite web |url=http://blog.toribash.com/?p=81 |title=Toribash for the WiiWare |access-date=2009-01-27 |archive-date=2009-01-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090130081248/http://blog.toribash.com/?p=81 |url-status=dead }} and for OS X and Linux in May 2014.{{cite web|url=http://www.gamershell.com/news_164151.html|title=News: Toribash Released on Steam, Launch Video/Screens Available|publisher=gamershell.com|accessdate=2014-05-26|archive-date=2018-07-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702233340/http://www.gamershell.com/news_164151.html|url-status=live}} A sequel, titled Toribash Next, was released in January 2024.{{cite web |last=Romano |first=Sal |url=https://www.gematsu.com/2024/01/free-to-play-fighting-game-sequel-toribash-next-announced-for-pc |title=Free-to-play fighting game sequel Toribash Next announced for PC |work=Gematsu |date=2024-01-04 |access-date=2024-06-27 |archive-date=2024-06-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240627043011/https://www.gematsu.com/2024/01/free-to-play-fighting-game-sequel-toribash-next-announced-for-pc |url-status=live }}
Gameplay
The game is mainly played by manipulating the various joints on the player's doll-like character over turn-based sequences to execute movements. These movements primarily include relaxing, holding, contracting and extending of the player model's neck, pecs, elbows, wrists, abdomen, glutes, hips, knees and ankles; raising and lowering the shoulders, tilting the lumbar and chest left and right, and grabbing and un-grabbing of the hands.
The game features singleplayer and multiplayer, where movements are executed in turn-frames of varying lengths within set match-frames. The game is heavily sand-box based.
Reception
{{Video game reviews
| MC = WII: 53/100{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/game/toribash/critic-reviews/?platform=wii |title=Toribash: Violence Perfected for Wii Reviews |work=Metacritic |accessdate=2020-12-06}}
}}
Toribash has been reviewed by PC Gamer UK, PC Gamer and PC Format, receiving 87%, 68% and 90% respectively.{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/game/toribash/critic-reviews/?platform=pc |title=Toribash for PC Reviews |work=Metacritic |accessdate=2020-12-06}}
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