Camera movement and controls got on my nerves, but the idea itself hit the right spot.

In this game your greatest enemy is not the crowd itself, its their effect on the camera! Camera tries really hard not to get obscured, and their presence on your tail makes it fail. Miserably. But! If you manage to make yourself an almost top-down view you can juke those guys forever and ever, and it's a pretty engaging game to try and break things as you run by them with shapes on your tail, careful not to get caught on rubble and surrounded by the guys wanting to kick your ass :D