Blood Alloy: Reborn

I hate to be the first guy to speak ill of a game (in my language anyway) that clearly has alot going well for it but well I do not recomend this game and have asked for refund. The problem is that this game is really more of physics sandbox with the ancient high score indicator as the only real incentive to do well. So there's not really much of a "game" just a clear cut reflex quick-twitch reaction tester. It really hurts to say all this because well damn is it fun to sprint around and ninja kick your way across the screen and roll through a hazard bot holding down a button to charge up your power, while sliding up a wall to fire multiple homing missles at a bunch of training bots and jumping through another obstacle. SOOOOOOO the Adrenaline is great in here man. Unfortantely it's much like a trip to the bearded clam as after they hype there just isn't anywhere fun to go with all of this excitment. There are a very limited set of enemies that behave in a very defined pattern and wh...

The New Hotness. I've had my eye on Blood Alloy for sometime. I've never passed on the opportunity to play it at PAX East or BostonFIG, and now I am happy to say the final product lives up to expectations. The initial tutorial is a little rough, but once the camera pulls back and the gloves come off, the game does not disappoint. You'll be dashing, slashing, running, and gunning your way through waves of enemies, with nearly reckless abandon, all while enjoying the grooves of a killer soundtrack. It's not a game that demands a lot from you and you'll be unlocking new items, levels, and music every couple rounds. Now for the main reason why I'm posting this review: justification of cost. At $12.99, no, it's not the cheapest game ever made. It's also not the most expensive one, and I can say on good authority that the developer, Suppressive Fire, has been busting their butts for YEARS to get this game out. The results speak for themselves. It's smooth, fast, and most importantly, so far...

The combat is super fast-paced and intense. The movement mechanics feel powerful, and add a lot of fun just traversing the map. The art and music are sharp, and really suck you into the experience.

The game is pretty devoid of content but it has some interesting ideas in namely the wall/ground/ceiling dashing. If you're really curious, buy it like me and then refund it after your 1hr of fun because you will struggle to get past more than that. Steam is cluttered with more than enough of these amateur, cash grabbing, trainwreck games but at the very least, this one had a spark of ingenuity. This game came out after a failed kickstarter for it described it as a Metroidvania: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/63518568/blood-alloy?ref=nav_search The developer admitted to being able to work on it "for a decade and make it slowly" but nope, gotta capitalize on that failure of a kickstarter and push out a game that clearly is lacking in so many ways. This guy worked for 5 years on QA for Harmonix (lol what QA) and then had 9 months in a design position. Good lord there is so much wrong with the design of the game. Why have intricate movement but provide nothing beyond 3 small s...

Beautiful art and animations, good music, good gameplay premise, but core gameplay feels incomplete and there is very little content. I only played for about an hour, over three sessions with long periods inbetween, but on the third go understood the controls well enough to find problems that made me want to stop playing. I tested most of the issues in the list below, but I might have misunderstood some of the gameplay mechanics, so please keep that in mind. The controls are difficult, and almost work against you. Bugs make it almost unplayable. A lot of thought went into some gameplay mechanics, and it shows because they are very detailed; a mid-air dash will angle itself up to avoid hitting a ramp, travelling parallel to whatever surface is far beneath you. The missile attack is quite "beautiful", as the Equipment menu describes them. There's a gif creator too, which is really cool. Specific issues: Key rebinding (through the Unity dialogue box) doesn't have any effect. Thankfully ...

This game looks good and the music is very nice. However, the game has many flaws whgich don't seem to be getting fixed anytime soon. You can unlock 3 pistols and 3 "seekers" (missile type thing) but when you select any other of the other equipment from the default options then it doesn't carry through to when you get in level, therefore you can never use the weapons you unlock. The enemy spawn rate is quite punishing as well, a difficulty setting would be nice. It would also be nice. There are also too many enemy types in my opinion, the tentacle/wire enemy spawns way too commonly. You can't select the cores you unlock either as they reset to default when you go into a level. I refunded it but would buy again if they fixed these issues.

Stylish and fun with fantastic aesthetics. The camera whips around a bit too much and the controls could use some polishing up, but overall this is a pretty damn good action game. If the camera was centered on the character so you could see what was going on better and the aim snapped to enemies so you could pop them off one after another then it would be pretty much perfect.

extremely fun! Has a really good feel. Pulling off interesting and fun combinations make you feel very slick! (even if you are terrible like me)

Great game! Throwback 2D graphics with a very modern gameplay twist--it's definitely a game you have to get good at. I'm just barely scratching the surface of figuring out all the moves and techniques, but having a lot of fun in the process. A definite buy!

Just an absolutely brilliant little score-chaser action game. Plenty of variety in attacks, and gradually-intensifying swarms of enemies to mass-murder, reward muscle memory and planning. Got to 11k+ points and spawned the boss in the first day, hoping to go further and unlock more stages and weapons. Great little game that will only get better as the developer tweaks and adjusts everything.