Bully Beatdown

For an inexpensive beat em up game, this one is worth the price. Refined gameplay, humorous animations and cutscenes, and interesting power-ups. I liked the way the power-ups were obtained through attack usage, encouraging me to try different attacks. I thought the hand-drawn animations were great, but I especially liked putting the beat-down to the high school student tropes. Smashing my way through the school cafeteria, gymnasium, and auditorium was super rewarding. A couple minor problems that i had was the hit-boxes are too high for my tastes, requiring positioning above the enemies. A bigger problem is the all-important controller support: I had to enable Steam's tool to get actions to work correctly, and even then, I could not use the trigger buttons. The support forum has a lot of complaints about this, but it does not look like it will get fixed. Lastly, i think there could have been more background music, instead of the same guitar riff looped forever. The sound effects are l...

I really wanted to like this game since I’m a huge fan of old school 2/2.5D beat ‘em ups. Plus, it’s a small development team and I’m always down for giving some love to underdog developers. But this is an honest review, so... This game’s graphical presentation was what initially caught my eye and made me go ahead with my purchase. Sadly, that’s the best thing about this title. Everything else about Bully Beatdown is pretty sub-par. The annoying shred guitar soundtrack really started to grate on me after a few levels in. The controls weren’t awful, but the special attacks (of which there are only a few) are awkward to execute. The character’s extremely limited moveset got old fast - which, in turn, made the gameplay in general get boring and monotonous pretty quickly. I powered through to the end of the game, but sadly this game won’t be getting a replay from this reviewer; deleted.

I am a huge fan of beat em up titles, and had been wanting to try this one for a while. Now that I have, I can say it was actually a lot better than I expected it to be. First of all, the art is really great. There is a fair amount of diversity within the enemies. Cheerleaders, jocks, rockers, football players, security guards, school mascots, and more will put up a fight! The cutscenes are well done too. They are each told in a comic book style scene, but don't drag out and get to the gameplay quickly. The gameplay is pretty standard for a beat em up, though they update your moves the more you use them, and a lot of the fun comes from getting gradually more powerful over the course of the game. The boss fights were also really fun, most enemies having multiple phases before finally beating them in a one on one fight. I do think this game can improve in some ways. For starters, they force you to play in fullscreen, and I would prefer a windowed mode as an option. Finding out how to u...

it's fun, has potential, but too many issues with the leveling progression, hit boxes, collision recognition and some other things.

I've played a zillion beat-em-ups on Steam in the past year, and I'm getting real sick of the genre, so I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Bully Beatdown. There's enough variety and power-ups to keep the game interesting for a handful of play-throughs and the achievements just keep popping. Sadly, some of them are bugged and won't pop so you'll never get 100% on this game even if you grind out some of the really tough ones. The graphics are decent and perfectly fit the comic-book presentation, but the music is terrible, which is a cardinal sin in a genre known for having kick-ass tunes. For the low price, Bully Beatdown is a decent casual game that you can spend a few hours with though you'll likely completely forget about it ten minutes after uninstalling.

Bully Beatdown is a fun and quick to play Beat em up game. The game has a unique leveling system in which the more you use a certain skill the stronger you get at it. Which i actually love and think is the best part of the game. The game itself is cheap and honestly is worth the price of four dollors, sort of upset this game never once came up on my timeline since its been out for a while. Be warned the game gets sort of dark around the last couple of levels but aside from that the game is short and comical in its own way following the short comics of a kid being bullied but by fighting by sort of becoming the bully himself. Great game.... Also Belly Roll... is the way to go..... just end everyone.

10/10 game. Played on easy and beat the game in 2.3 hours. Totally worth the game price IMO considering it is a fun brawler, multiple difficulty levels, and achievements to get. I love the simple but very important story: The bullied kid becomes the #1 bully. Let this be a lesson to all kids in schools these days that bully other kids....Don't do it. Not ever worth it. Treat all people with respect and dignity.

Don't Pick On The Fat Kid is alright, there's better beat em up's knocking about. It has a quirky story, a little depth to the combat (you've got some special moves, abilities level up the more you use them although I punched my way through most of the game as there didn't seem to be an immediate need to level anything else up). I'd pick this up if you've got a couple of hours to kill and want to play through something a little silly. I uploaded a bit of gameplay footage here: https://youtu.be/_tFd-5JbsA0

The game looks great, the visuals are crisp & sharp. The music is fantastic, as well as, the story board that leads you to the next sequence of events and game play. The problem lies with the game play & the devs not responding to or addressing the games problems. I play with a controller, which it claims to support. Special moves only function when I'm facing left, leaving me exposed on the right. Zero response from the devs. If you've dealt with wonky games/gameplay & are looking for a beat'em up, don't pay full price for this broken would be gem.

Great game. Love the fast paced gameplay and fresh graphics. The storyline is fun and intriguing and the extra difficulty gives it some extra flavour after you beat it for the first time. A must buy in my eyes.