Feedback about Battle Axe

[Rongkong Coma]

The game is fun ... there is nothing other to say.
It is a real Retro-Feeling that comes up with it.
Feels like you are going to be sucked back into a weekend in the late 80s with your Amiga ... you put the ADF Disk into your Amiga ... and then you have some hours of fun offline.
No question about this.

BUT ... and now it comes why the game sucks and gets negative feedback:

First ... the price!!!
27 Bucks for a game like this is a real impudence.
In the 80s ... the price of 27 Euro or ... in that case ... roundabout 50 DM ... was normally.
But in these days it is way too high for this minimal content.
Yes ... the graphics are nice and really looking like in chaos engine.
The the music is also OK ... even when it bugs after some time.
Dont know why the music artist is held that high!?
There is no multiplayer and only local Co-Op ... which is a real retro-feeling ... but minimal.
Dont really sure if this is good or bad for the retro-game feeling!?
But the price is too high for it ... thats for sure.
Between 10 ad 15 Euro would be fair and OK so that the programmer would earn enough.
But all over it is ... like I said before ... an impudence!!!

Then to the game itself.
It feels sometimes problematical.
The controls are primitve and retro ... but not really good for a price like this.
Because of the fact you can only fire in 8 directions makes it feel sometimes uncomfortable playing it.
As one example: By shooting flowers who are on the slightly right upper side after a bridge ... and you cannot shoot them because they are not reached by firing to the right or upper right because they are placed in a direction you cannot reach them ... you have no chance to get them.
And by attack them near you get hit by them.
A gameplay that is unfair.
Unfair gameplay is bad gameplay.

Also the difficulty of the game is bad.
To make it very hard even in gameplay easy ... only because the game has only 4 poor levels ... is very frustrating.
Especially because of the price fpr 27 Bucks.
And again we are at the price.
Easy is not easy ... it is normal or hard.
The problem is the amount of lives and/or randomly generated enemies beginning at level 2 of the game.
If you would have more lives in easy (Maybe 5 or 6) or if you would have the 2 lives and the ability to save progress of the level (When you reach level 2 you can start again there) it would be fine and you would have fun.
But in this case the difficulty easy is a joke.
Feels like games like Toki that never gets played through.
Original Amiga feeling ... but for a price like this ... not good.
The gameplay in hard could be the way it is in easy now ... but easy has to be much easier.

The game has to give more for the price of 27 Euro ... or it has to be much cheaper ... and it has to be much easier in easy.
To buy 27 Euro for a game you only be able to play 3 levels as a normal player who is not that good on and on ... you have no real multiplayer to play with other guys online ... you only have controls who are sometimes unfair ... is really unfair and a real impudence.

I doubt that there will be a patch for it or a working on the game.
Feels like it is thrown out and thats it.
Feedback seems to be unwelcome.
Wanted it to give it anyway.
In hope that ther will be some patches or updates of the game.
Other games made it right ... but again ... doubt that it will be happen in this case.
Also because it is sold not only on Steam ... also on PS4 and XBox and Switch.
Would be too difficult of that fact.

From me a very frustrated "BAD GAME" as a customer. ):-(

[Chocos Ramabotti]

Game isn't that hard, if you can't beat Toki even on Easy, then I advise reconsidering what games to prefer.

[Dafoof]

I hope there will be updates (even one would do tbh), to fix the obvious -- and easy to address -- bugs/shortcomings, like volume controls on the music/FX or at the very least the erroneous number of villagers to save in level 3... It's a shame to see such a lovely game completely abandoned by the devs, and all feedback ignored (or at least that's what it feels like atm).