Bartlow's Dread Machine

While checking out Bartlow's Dread Machine, for once, I didn't even bother reading the reviews first. The art looked so great and the on rails aspect looked so fun that I just hit purchase. Then I checked it out for a few levels and all my joy turned sour. While I do enjoy the old school characteristics of the movement, it just doesn't work because the controls are too slow to react to your inputs. Meanwhile, the melee enemies will close in on you FAST while the others shoot at your general direction. This means taking your time, losing the money since it disappears, and hoping your placement is correct or you'll die. Speaking of money, you will get a few dollars after each map to purchase unlockables, but nowhere near enough to gain anything impactful. Expect grind. A lot of it. Also, the control scheme is just terrible. Ammo being (quite) limited, keeping your finger on the trigger will not result in shots being done in succession. You have to release the trigger, and then shoot again. Which means dodging is a tad complicated since you gotta move, keep your concentration to shoot, and then aim at the same time. Said issues can be fixed by editing the control scheme in Big Picture and using a controller with a turbo function, but if you gotta use external tools to fix the gameplay, there's a problem. Now, there are a few cool things in the game but as an example, I love chocolate, cheese and red meat. Make me a soup with both of those and I'm absolutely certain to vomit after the first spoon. This is what the game feels like. Individually, I don't feel like the gameplay aspects are really an issue, but mixed together, they just don't work. Great concept, great looks, but poor execution. Sad!

+ Stile grafico particolare + Gameplay interessante - Tempi di caricamento lenti(soprattutto nei menu) - Avaro di bottini

never see a game crash so much. i got stuck with no reason the game is boring but hey you could like not my case i can't finish it because the game still crash

Nice game with automata look and great music. The art style is unique and to the last detail - super! Regarding game mechanics it is a twinstick shooter with the twist that you move on rails which limits you quite a bit when you try to evade the hundreds of bullets and enemies. The game is tough, I beat it on normal in single-player and it took me countless tries. But maybe I am just not good at it, On the positive I was motivated to finish the game and kept playing. There are two difficulty levels below normal and you can switch anytime during the game to avoid frustration. Mouse and keyboard worked fine for me. It is a very good game if you like the mechanics.

Одна из лучших в своем жанре. Советую всем любителям скролл-шутеров

muito bom

pif paf, ale jak samemu się gra to całość szybko zamienia się w nieznośny bullet hell, poza tym gra raczej taka sobie