Ball Bulét

"Ball Bulét" is a student project from the Academy of Italian Video Games, and it's kinda okay at best. A top down "shooter" where your weapon is a ball, kinda like Magneto in X-Men 2, or maybe Mr Terrific from DC Comics only even less interesting. Let's face it, top down anything is a mostly dead genre except for a couple of ARPGs like Diablo and Path of Exile, and this isn't even vaguely close to those. The graphics in this game are passable, but could be better. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 3 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? This is a "maybe" experience... if you have a lot of free time on your hands and nothing else to do, why not? But for the purposes of a review, this isn't something I can say everyone must try. It's not quite there. Valve doesn't give us a "maybe" option in reviews, but if they did, that's what I'd choose for this.

Il gioco è molto interessante. Bella la meccanica della palla anche se forse servirebbe un onboarding più completo (case in point: cosa sono i golden shot e come si effettuano? C'entra qualcosa la sezione gialla nello slider della potenza del tiro?). Poi io ho avuto un problema di UI tagliata ma probabilmente questo è perché ho un monitor 16:10. Per il resto come già detto è un gioco molto interessante: frenetico ma ragionato, divertente e con un buon livello di polish nelle meccaniche. Lo consiglio a chi cerca un bullet hell per approcciarsi al genere.

Il gameplay è frenetico e divertente, con una sfera magnetica che rimbalza su tutte le superfici come unica arma. Ideale per gli amanti dei bullet hell shooter con una twist strategica.

Pinball ma divertente 9/10

Mechanics are fun, enemies are tough but fair, the ball is ballin'. What else?

bounce bounce.

Really nice and fun game to play. It gives you a variety of play styles so you can play again the rooms with different approaches. Recommended!!