Battle Axe is an arcade top-down hack & slash featuring high-quality visuals created by veteran pixel artist Henk Nieborg, true to form game mechanics, and music from the legendary VGM composer Manami Matsumae – retro gamers rejoice!
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This game is... not that bad actually. It's very faithful to 90s arcade games, both in a positive and negative way. The pixel art is GORGEOUS and the gameplay is simple and intuitive, but once you lose all your lives, you have to start all over again (also, there are no continues... I would have liked an option to add some). Luckily, the campaign is very short (just four levels) and the enemy patterns are relatively easy to learn. Just like older arcade games, it's meant to be replayed over and over to improve your score. There isn't too much content so I would recommend buying it only if it's on sale or in a bundle (which is what I also did).
If you're going to make a home console Gauntlet-like game, you cannot limit the players to 2 lives only! If I was in the arcade, I would have put more quarters in to continue. If you can't let me simulate that at home, the game gets uninstalled. I truly wish I would have played less of it so that I could have gotten a refund.
Крутой визуал, но очень скудное наполнение. Всего 3 уровня, но умереть в этой игре очень легко, а значит их вы будете проходить очень долго. Какая-то "дань уважения" игровым автоматам. Но стим, вроде, не просит вставить монетку за дополнительную попытку, поэтому не понятно зачем все это. Скорее всего, игру вы удалите спустя минут 10.
belongs in trash