Naraka: Bladepoint

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5.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 75 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 37 out of 75
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 75
  3. Negative: 31 out of 75

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  1. kuai
    Dec 10, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Game developers modify purchased game content at will. Do not deal with plug-ins… Expand
  2. Carpal
    Apr 1, 2023
    0
    Era un buen juego, de mis BR favoritos, pero completamente arruinado por censura sin sentido, los trajes que compré los cambiaron y no es lo que yo pedí, alta estafa ahi, deberían habilitar una opción para alternar con o sin censura para los paises fuera de China, que ese es otro problema, ahora los servidores están llenos de asiaticos con 200 de ping, y niveles excesivos. juego ARRUINADO
  3. Admer
    Aug 16, 2021
    2
    Разработчики совсем ахуели, продавать посредственный батлрояль за 60$ и при этом от продавать ещё скины и боевой пропуск, наглость и жадность не знают границ. Я бы ещё понял продажу батлпасса и остального в случае бесплатности игры, но в платной..идите нахуй
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    The developers are completely fuсked up, selling a mediocre battle royal for 60$ and at the same time selling skins and    Разработчики совсем ахуели, продавать посредственный батлрояль за 60$ и при этом от продавать ещё скины и боевой пропуск, наглость и жадность не знают границ. Я бы ещё понял продажу батлпасса и остального в случае бесплатности игры, но в платной..идите нахуй
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    The developers are completely fuсked up, selling a mediocre battle royal for 60$ and at the same time selling skins and a battlepass, arrogance and greed know no bounds. I would still understand the sale of the battle pass and the rest in the case of a free game, but in a paid. Fuсk you    … Expand
  4. ClarkKunt
    Dec 28, 2021
    0
    Garbage mess with terrible netcode and no region lock for bum asian players that take advantage of high ping on EU servers. Also weapons and heroes are not balanced and skill based matchmaking is non existent. **** this game, don't waste your money on this. They are adding more pointless things to the game instead of addressing the core issues. P.S. Game won't tell you, but matches areGarbage mess with terrible netcode and no region lock for bum asian players that take advantage of high ping on EU servers. Also weapons and heroes are not balanced and skill based matchmaking is non existent. **** this game, don't waste your money on this. They are adding more pointless things to the game instead of addressing the core issues. P.S. Game won't tell you, but matches are riddled with ****ing bots (even after I played like 15hrs).… Expand
  5. Kennchy
    Aug 21, 2021
    0
    Absolutely unplayable at the moment. 50-60% of the lobbies are filled with asian players (200+ Ping) making the game unplayble. The monetazation of the game is disgusting too. The mods on reddit censor any critic about the game.
  6. Red_Madness
    Aug 13, 2021
    1
    I will summarize the reason why I gave this game a low ranking in one word and it is CHEATERS. The game is rampant with cheaters. I have played the game through the beta phases and the cheating problem has not been fixed. The most common types of cheats you will find are ESP (see where players are), auto-parrying, and speed hacking. The game had potential and was fun initially, but withI will summarize the reason why I gave this game a low ranking in one word and it is CHEATERS. The game is rampant with cheaters. I have played the game through the beta phases and the cheating problem has not been fixed. The most common types of cheats you will find are ESP (see where players are), auto-parrying, and speed hacking. The game had potential and was fun initially, but with rampant cheaters I would say it's not worth playing.… Expand
  7. DuckOnTheTruck
    Aug 13, 2021
    3
    The game has a lot of potential. But right now i would not recommend getting it. There are lots of bot players(Literally bot accounts) and it drags the game down. I would rather have to wait 3-5 minutes to find a game full of real players than 2 seconds for a game with maybe 5 real players at best(out of 60). The combat system is little bit clunky as you try to learn but I imagine you canThe game has a lot of potential. But right now i would not recommend getting it. There are lots of bot players(Literally bot accounts) and it drags the game down. I would rather have to wait 3-5 minutes to find a game full of real players than 2 seconds for a game with maybe 5 real players at best(out of 60). The combat system is little bit clunky as you try to learn but I imagine you can really get to do some crazy stuff. I have refunded the game for now but look forward to a time where it is actually playable.… Expand
  8. xSazu
    Oct 4, 2021
    0
    No Regionlock, Lobbies are 80% filled with chinese, game runs in dx11 and the optimization is awful. It makes no fun at all.
  9. Untilted
    Aug 13, 2021
    2
    Unstable servers, spam-like combat system, and a microtransaction nightmare makes this game one of the worst martial arts Battle Royales released.
  10. Abral6
    Aug 13, 2021
    3
    I had fun playing for a while, but the ping started to spike all over the place when I load into a match. It feels like the game doesn't load the entire map from the start or something. My computer is really nice but the optimization feels really bad for this game, even on the lowest settings the game is clunky.
  11. RoverDiscover
    Jun 23, 2022
    0
    Pretty much sucks at everything. Poor graphics, awful mechanics, button masher.
  12. Zennek666
    Jan 4, 2022
    0
    Game with potential. But all ruined by cheaters and China laggers. Anty-cheat is not functional and game system give laggers advantage, what is abused by china players in our region. In effect game is unplayable.
  13. AJCk19
    Jul 17, 2023
    2
    This game has so much potential. One of the selling points was the great aesthetics, but it decided to self censor itself. Which was a weird decision, art shouldn't be censored. Also, it should have gone the route of the free to play model similar to Overwatch 2, it would have benefited from it.

    UPDATE: They listened and made it free to play, but still didn't roll back the censored art,    This game has so much potential. One of the selling points was the great aesthetics, but it decided to self censor itself. Which was a weird decision, art shouldn't be censored. Also, it should have gone the route of the free to play model similar to Overwatch 2, it would have benefited from it.

    UPDATE: They listened and made it free to play, but still didn't roll back the censored art, and never spiced up the boring melee combat. Which feels like a water down ninja gaiden. PS. Turning off memory integrity just to play, is foul.    … Expand
  14. Sitri444
    Apr 22, 2023
    1
    Came back to the game after a long hiatus only to find out that it's been heavily censored with numerous changes to female costumes, and they even had their physics removed. I'm sure the company had little choice with the way the Chinese government is, but it's still unacceptable to me so I refuse to play it now.
  15. yeezyboi215
    Jul 14, 2023
    0
    This game suck, bought Ultimate version and got nothing, game change to F2P and got absolutely NOTHING, thought I will receive something special but NO, NOTHING! Except I have to grind all over again, fck this game!
  16. MarkyX
    Jan 7, 2022
    1
    Probably the worst game I've played in 2021.

    Visually, it's a stunning game with outstanding landscape and parkour animations to boot. Moving around feels fine with a rather straightforward system. The use of the items isn't anything special, although it does have a simple yet engaging "Jade" system to modify your stats or access new weapon features. Unfortunately, that's all the    Probably the worst game I've played in 2021.

    Visually, it's a stunning game with outstanding landscape and parkour animations to boot. Moving around feels fine with a rather straightforward system. The use of the items isn't anything special, although it does have a simple yet engaging "Jade" system to modify your stats or access new weapon features.

    Unfortunately, that's all the positive I can say about the game.

    The controls feel floaty, where it feels like you are controlling a puppet instead of a character. In a well-designed game, if you want to crouch, you simply hold down the crouch button, and they will do that in the next opportunity if they are locked in an animation.

    Weird that I'm bringing this up, right? That's the thing. In Naraka, your character will not crouch. They will only listen to your orders if they are completely free to do this. Even holding the key doesn't force them to do the command.

    Now combine this in a game where killing off a player can be done in a handful of seconds and is very reliant on hit stuns, and you'll see where the problems come in. Your character is not responsive to you at all, and everything feels floaty and unnatural. Press shift to dodge? Sorry, you will never shift because your character is in a hit stun animation. Play any fighting game like Yomi or Street Fighter and then this, and you'll see what I mean. If we want a more fair comparison, games like Mordhau and Chiv 2, while being much slower, have far more responsive controls. Because of this, winning or losing fights in Naraka doesn't feel at all satisfying as in other games. Yes, you've read that right, winning fights doesn't feel that great. That's a complete failure in a fighting game.

    Even if the controls were fixed, the character balance is out of whack. Many of the top tier characters have hard crowd control abilities, such as five second stuns, or large AOE stuns for several seconds with no counterplay. Whoever thought hard crowd control abilities would work in a Battle Royale is an idiot, and same goes with anyone who praises such concepts.

    Weapons like the dagger are simply overpowered because the weapon speed plays a huge role in winning due to the hit stuns. Battle Royale itself isn't that interesting as you can sometimes spend 15 or 20 minutes not meeting anyone because of how slow the shadows (the game's restriction) move. Trios (3 person teams) is also a laughable effort because of the hit stuns and huge emphasis on crowd control abilities. It's not worth the time or effort, especially with games that have far better melee systems like Chiv 2 or Battle Royale systems like Apex Legends.    … Expand
  17. SeventhParrot
    Sep 25, 2022
    0
    This game is terrible, it asks for you to disable your kernel security to play it and says so Chinese so you have no idea what you are doing. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME, IT IS A SCAM.
  18. mal0ver
    Feb 25, 2022
    3
    Absolutely dead game, installed it 2 days ago, but I play against streamers and guys with Solar rank. Crappy matchmaking, **** balance, wait 5 minutes for a match to start, play 10 minutes
  19. Emik
    Jun 23, 2022
    0
    worthless and boring, there are far better games of this genre than this one
  20. XBOSS
    Jun 23, 2022
    0
    Really poor optimisation. No net code rollback and really boring characters. It’s a huge no from me
  21. Quazder
    Aug 22, 2023
    0
    Thought i could just play the game after 20 minutes tutorial but nonono, there was another xdd so I unistalled obv
  22. vinhvu
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    Game nhái pubg, đồ hoạ đẹp hơn nhưng nói gì thì nói vẫn nhái pubg nhé lê tuấn anh:))
  23. Willhelmet
    Aug 7, 2023
    0
    For a game with a focus on melee combat, they made the game as clunky as possible. Between getting stun lock in a combo, getting beaten to a pulp because the parry system needs to be pixel perfect, or not being able to do anything because the game doesn't register my inputs, after a solid month of playing every day, I reached my limit and gave up on this game.
    Maybe if the developers were    For a game with a focus on melee combat, they made the game as clunky as possible. Between getting stun lock in a combo, getting beaten to a pulp because the parry system needs to be pixel perfect, or not being able to do anything because the game doesn't register my inputs, after a solid month of playing every day, I reached my limit and gave up on this game.
    Maybe if the developers were more worried about making the core mechanics of their game actually work like they are supposed to and less worried about making money with skins, they could have made a game that would have been a huge success.    … Expand

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71

Mixed or average reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 22
  3. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. GameGrin
    Jan 3, 2023
    65
    Naraka: Bladepoint is a beautiful-looking and sounding game with some neat battle mechanics and fun martial arts action that is challenging to master. Finding opponents in your area may be tricky so being put against players from a different region with a higher ping rate feels unfair.
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  2. CD-Action
    Nov 15, 2021
    80
    A fun battle royale and a viable alternative for Chivalry II and For Honor. Naraka Bladepoint puts emphasis on closed combat, not skulking around the bushes with a ranged weapon. It drips the atmosphere of ancient China and offers a great combat system, but also doesn’t shy away from spells and well-implemented parkour. However, said combat system along with the game’s fast pace sets the bar rather high for newcomers. [11/2021, p.47]
  3. Everyeye.it
    Sep 14, 2021
    75
    Naraka Bladepoint is not a perfect battle royale, but it manages to mix a series of gameplay mechanics that make it frenetic, fun and above all immediate.
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