I really liked the artwork, especially the meaty arms and general meat-headed-ness. I was playing it on my lonesome, so I'm not sure I could get the central mechanic to work. The upwards to ready and L/R to strike was cool. Like Chris I died V quick when the chickens fell from the heavens. If you could make it 1P friendly I'd love to play more... Chicken Colloseum!

This was an interesting game, I liked the health bar joining the 2 players together, but I couldn’t figure out how to keep myself from dying every time the chickens fell from the top - I probably just wasn’t good enough... :( but it was fun and the graphics were fun; I like the sword swish. I’m not sure how well it fit the theme, perhaps if there was a score for dodging the chickens or something.. I’m not sure. It was a funny game though!

The art here is charming - although sound would have been nice and would have really doubled-down on the slightly Caste Crashers-y comic art style as well as helping players understand the mechanics (for example a different sound for losing health through damage and a different sound for losing health through max HP bar contraction). I really like the overall concept here and it's a shame I didn't get to play it with another human at the other controls.  

I think for the central mechanical conceit to work, consider making the arena much bigger (4x-5x?) so that there is a lot more leeway, but give players lots of incentive to stray into the middle (e.g. loot etc.).