Reviews - gabeh13

Surprising and fun, an excellent game if you have the patience. The art work is great and suits the theme well. Every fighter has it's unique look and the player can see their new equipment as they work up through the tiers. More importantly Beast Boxing feels very snappy which is much appreciated with what I feel is twitch gameplay. The feedback you get when landing punches is great, that sort of thing is surprisingly over looked by games but landing a flurry of jabs always feels great here.

It's probably my fault for being this way but I refuse to lower difficulty in any game because I assume the default settings is what the developer feels is what the game is suppose to be. In this type of game I feel like the most important and rewarding thing is recognizing tells and capitalizing on them. Despite being mostly successful at this I felt as if the only way to win was to grind for stats and equipment making losses increasingly frustrating. The feeling of satisfaction in finally beating an opponent was robbed by the fact that I had to grind for equipment to win. It's a tough balance to find when a game is asking for player ability but uses stats to severely augment it's outcome.

A little rough around the edges but totally worth your money and time.

Bleed scratches an itch that the Mega Man Zero series use to for me. It hit all the high notes of the genre perfectly too. Well designed boss encounters that make great use of the game mechanics. The ability to deflect incoming fire and cut dudes with a sword is always super satisfying. Any side scroller with a sweet train level is always good in my book. The game is short and the price is more than fair.
Bleed is easily one of my favorite indie games now, up there with Cave Story and Suguri. You can tell it's made by someone that loves this kind of game, and aren't just doing another 2D "retro" indie game. I hope this game does well, I had a dumb grin the whole time playing it.