You should buy this game if:

- You like the visual style. You get what you see on the store page, and it's consistent and high quality throughout the game. It's sidescrolling Hades with Japanese animated fighting game style.
- You thought Hades was a bit too hard to get into. The baseline difficulty of BBEE is much easier than Hades, but you unlock a lot of difficulty tweaks pretty early on in the game. BBEE is also very generous in giving the player tools, skills, buffs, and heals compared to Hades.
- You find bad translations charming more than distracting. It's not the worst I've ever seen but it feels like google translate did most of the work. I feel bad for the voice actors forced to read the awkward and often silly voicelines, but ultimately thought of it as a cute quirk than a true flaw of the game.

I'd say theme and style are the biggest reasons to buy this game because that's really what it does best. In terms of mechanics and gameplay there are just a lot of games out there that do it better.

I was able to beat the final boss on my fifteenth run, but I would say the game's baseline difficulty is equivalent to an easy mode and you'll need to turn on the Entropy system (difficulty options) to play it at a more serious difficulty. Someone skilled with combat systems like this one could probably beat it sight unseen on their third or fifth run.

I actually found the skill system to be more interesting than Hades, maybe just as a result of having a lot more interplay between different trees and synergies between character skillsets and acquired skills. The other side of that is that once you find a couple of strong combos you can pretty easily build a god run to steamroll through the game. The Legacy systems lets you pick and keep up to four skills from previous runs to start as many new runs as you like with.

The game does a good job of rewarding you for learning enemy attack patterns and is very generous with iframes so if you're locked in you will feel invincible. The downside is that the game is extremely visually busy, which means that even though enemies give you three different telegraphs sometimes you'll still miss the warning and take a hit if you can't see through the visual effects soup covering your screen.

The character design is exactly what it looks like. A smattering of fighting game-style Anime characters fitting some common character tropes. One thing I appreciated was that female characters are modestly dressed (for a video game) and well voiced so it doesn't look or sound like you're playing a hentai when play as a female character.

Overall the game has a clear idea of what it wants to be and what's important to it, and I definitely feel a sense of care and quality put into by the developers. It falls short here and there, and it's not going to win game of the year, but if you like what you see you are very likely to get more of it and the experience will be overall worth your time.

You should buy this game if: - You like the visual style. You get what you see on the store page, and it's consistent and high quality throughout the game. It's sidescrolling Hades with Japanese animated fighting game style. - You thought Hades was a bit too hard to get into. The baseline difficulty of BBEE is much easier than Hades, but you unlock a lot of difficulty tweaks pretty early on in the game. BBEE is also very generous in giving the player tools, skills, buffs, and heals compared to Hades. - You find bad translations charming more than distracting. It's not the worst I've ever seen but it feels like google translate did most of the work. I feel bad for the voice actors forced to read the awkward and often silly voicelines, but ultimately thought of it as a cute quirk than a true flaw of the game. I'd say theme and style are the biggest reasons to buy this game because that's really what it does best. In terms of mechanics and gameplay there are just a lot of games out there that do it better. I was able to beat the final boss on my fifteenth run, but I would say the game's baseline difficulty is equivalent to an easy mode and you'll need to turn on the Entropy system (difficulty options) to play it at a more serious difficulty. Someone skilled with combat systems like this one could probably beat it sight unseen on their third or fifth run. I actually found the skill system to be more interesting than Hades, maybe just as a result of having a lot more interplay between different trees and synergies between character skillsets and acquired skills. The other side of that is that once you find a couple of strong combos you can pretty easily build a god run to steamroll through the game. The Legacy systems lets you pick and keep up to four skills from previous runs to start as many new runs as you like with. The game does a good job of rewarding you for learning enemy attack patterns and is very generous with iframes so if you're locked in you will feel invincible. The downside is that the game is extremely visually busy, which means that even though enemies give you three different telegraphs sometimes you'll still miss the warning and take a hit if you can't see through the visual effects soup covering your screen. The character design is exactly what it looks like. A smattering of fighting game-style Anime characters fitting some common character tropes. One thing I appreciated was that female characters are modestly dressed (for a video game) and well voiced so it doesn't look or sound like you're playing a hentai when play as a female character. Overall the game has a clear idea of what it wants to be and what's important to it, and I definitely feel a sense of care and quality put into by the developers. It falls short here and there, and it's not going to win game of the year, but if you like what you see you are very likely to get more of it and the experience will be overall worth your time.