Bloodroots

Bloodroots is one of the most confident indie games to release on Nintendo Switch, sure to appease players with a fetish for violence, score-chasing and an enticing narrative. It’s the complete package.

Bloodroots is like a Hotline Miami set in a western world, with a little touch of Tarantino. Play it, kill and have fun.

Bloodroots is Chaotic, idiotically violent, and a lot of fun! its an action game with a distinctive formula that keeps you moving and tests your wits all the time.

While Australia still doesn’t have Hotline Miami on the Switch, Bloodroots helps to fill that fast-paced violent wound. When you work out how to chain your attacks around the many arenas it feels great, although it can be too unforgiving. Bloodroots revels in ‘everything is your weapon’ slapstick, managing to keep it interesting across the three acts. Paper Cult has delivered a stylish bloody revenge tale that will grab your attention and stab you with it.

While some overly long levels and a few frustrating hazards threaten to hamper the game’s enjoyment, the amazing and cathartic action in Bloodroots still finds a way to power through these flaws in order to help deliver one highly enjoyable game. Be it the swift yet nicely chaotic gameplay that offers a good chunk of strategy and buckets of blood, the stylistic and attractive art style with a lot of flavor in every bit of scenery, or the simple yet captivating story, there’s a lot here to enjoy. Rain bring Paper Cult the strength, for they have earned it.

A stylized action fighting game that you will easily get tired of, but on the other hand it can also entertain and reward patient players. [Issue#303]

BloodRoots is unfortunately not as fun as its initial promise would have made us think. Despite the undeniable fun given by the freedom of butchering your enemies with an infinity of items, the repetitiveness of its gameplay mechanics, its imprecise collisions and idle camera runs short after a couple of ours.

Solid! It doesn't bring anything new in its mechanics and Gameplay overall but it is a fun time.

7.5/10 - Isometric hack n slash. Fast fun is the best way to describe it. Doesn’t take itself too seriously and not overly long game (doesn’t overstay it’s welcome) Positives + the right amount of difficulty and playtime + good soundtrack + fun ride Negatives - long load times - no explanation whatsoever on what to do in platforming areas can leave you wasting time dying repeatedly mashing buttons to figure it out - some glitches (minor)

Music is the best, plot quite poor but the gameplay, especially for handhelds rules for some kind of trip. Anyways there is just too little for proper gaming.

This is the type of game that you forget you had purchased. You discover it in your downloads later and then wonder why you had spent money on it. - Extremely long load times between scenes. Clearly not optimized for the Switch. It took literally 5 minutes to load until you can first move your character all the while showing a spinning axe loading icon which you will see throughout the game and blaring the developer names in giant letters as if this were the best game ever. - Bad controls. I can't get past the way the character runs. There is no acceleration or deceleration. - [Next Comment Loading ..... ]

Good idea with mediocre gameplay and bugs. Many times you'll see how the hit box of the enemies make no sense or lag with the jump and attack button. Is really disappointing because it would be a really interesting and worth game with an average gameplay, but unfortunately is too bad.