Bullet Witch Review

About the game:
In the year 2013 demons have risen on earth creating mass destruction.  You are a gun carrying, magic casting witch by the name of Alicia, and mankinds only hope.  You have various guns and upgrades at your disposal as well as a variety of (sometimes extremely destructive) magical abilities.



Story Mode: 6/10
There is a total of 6 Stages to complete in Bullet Witch.  At times its not exactly obvious on which way you should go to get to the next checkpoint, and essentially the layout changes but its really a lot of the same.  Either you are fighting standard baddies, machine baddies (tanks, helicopters), taking down a giant, or one of the actual game bosses.  For what it is worth though its enjoyable still most of the time. 



Multiplayer : N/A
Bullet Witch has no mutiplayer functionality.  It does have downloadable content as well as leaderboards, but that is the only thing provided in the Live Service for this title.  There is also no local multiplayer.



Graphics/game play: 5/10
I will be honest I personally think the graphics are not great - they could definately have been better, but they aren’t completely terrible.  Like many games when you destroy an enemy in time the corpse disapears - when you take out one of the huge giant creatures and the corpse just kind of disapears makes the game loose something in my eyes, a minute ago there was this big arm in your way, and now its an open street.  I have read quite a few reviews of the controls being a bit buggy, but I havent had many problems thus far.  There are sniper types that at times its hard to tell which direction they shot comes from, which is important because you need to block them - or suffer a one shot kill.  If the graphics were kicked up a bit, I would rate the game a bit higher in this area.



Achievements: 5/10
You get an achievement for completting each stage on any difficulty, and one for completing all stages, so far so good right?  Well thats where the achievements start to go off on the wrong path.  The rest of the achievements are based on completing the game over and over again on each of the difficulty levels - and they do not stack in any way, so finishing on normal mode only gives you the normal mode achievement, not normal and easy.  I have to admit at times i think this is a good achievement structure but for this game it seems just lazy when deciding what to base achievements on.  If you take a step back you could say that it is structured in that way because they assume you would complete the lower difficulties to obtain a stronger Alicia for the harder ones - i guess in that respect it makes sense.  Quite honestly I think that its kind of humorous that they have an achievement to complete the game on the hardest setting and its only worth 1 point.  Without it, the achievements would be rated even lower. 



In Short..
I would still suggest renting the game or buying it used if its interesting to you. I personally rented it and at the time of writing this only completed the story on easy - perhaps I will see more of the “buggyness” that people are talking about as the game gets harder, perhaps not.  I originally wanted to buy this game at release but after reading quite a few bad reviews I got a little gun shy.  I have really enjoyed playing the game thus far, but based on the replayability and the somewhat repeitious nature (especially if you are working on achievements - thats the same story 5 times).  I personally feel its a better rental.  I plan on keeping it around and playing a bit more, but I am not sure if I will actually go as far as to obtain all 1,000 points - time will tell.



I give it a 5.5 out of 10