Battle Axe

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  • Summary: Battle Axe is an arcade top-down hack & slash featuring high-quality visuals created by veteran pixel artist Henk Nieborg, true to form game mechanics, and music from the legendary VGM composer Manami Matsumae – retro gamers rejoice!

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  1. Xbox Tavern
    May 3, 2021
    66
    In their Kickstarter campaign, they stated that their goal was to “revitalize the genre with new gameplay elements”; unfortunately, it can’t really be called a successor to any of the games from which it took inspiration. It has decent gameplay at its core but is severely lacking in content for its current price of $30, and it tries to make up for that by cranking the difficulty way up. This is magnified by the designers’ decision to forego almost all of the modern conveniences players have grown accustomed to in the past twenty-plus years, which really makes you question what was going through their heads. If you love arcadey Hack and Slash games and/or enjoy challenging yourself with devilishly difficult games then this might be worth checking out once it’s on sale.
  2. TheXboxHub
    May 3, 2021
    60
    Battle Axe on the Xbox is fast-food in an action-brawler wrapper. It tastes and looks good in the short-term, full of E numbers and shots of adrenaline. But it leaves you unsatisfied in the long term, leaving you hungry for something more than thirty minutes of easy hacking and slashing. When you’re £25 lighter after the experience, you’d be forgiven for expecting a heartier meal with more courses.
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  1. Xboxygen
    Jun 8, 2021
    Battle Axe is the kind of game that one wishes to treasure as it toys with a nostalgic vibration that always works. With rather solid foundations, the game presents a visually magnificent universe thanks to its sprites and backgrounds, a coherent artistic direction, a soundtrack produced by an eminent name and ultimately a team who knows its way around that kind of production. Nonetheless, it’s hard not to sense a certain “laisser-aller” on the grounds that the game leans on its authors’ reputation and the influences which they used rather than on what new elements it could give to the genre. Even its radical suggestion that is here considered as a quality might be judged otherwise by many other players. For the time being, it’s a game rather destined to the retro-experience aficionados and a game that hopefully one day could actually be played on an arcade machine where it would shine bright like a diamond.

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  1. Alex_Pilgrim008
    Jun 3, 2023
    7
    A fun retro-styled hack n' slash that combines "Gauntlet" with "Golden Axe". It's a short, but very difficult game to master. You choose fromA fun retro-styled hack n' slash that combines "Gauntlet" with "Golden Axe". It's a short, but very difficult game to master. You choose from three characters and fight through four chapters. It'll take several tries to finish the game. The "arcade" mode takes about 30 minutes to complete. But there is also an "infinite" mode that is a series of endless levels. Great pixel art and retro soundtrack. This is a gem that might be a bit overpriced. I would rate it with a 7.3 out of 10.… Expand