Xbox One User Reviews

Pixel Devil and the Broken Cartridge is a 2D Platforming Shooter. You're pixel Devil and you've moved into a new apartment! In your apartment, you find an old game cartridge with a torn off label. Being a gamer, you dust off the old console, plug it in and pop in the cartridge to find out what kind of game it is. Suddenly a Portal opens and your girlfriend is taken into the portal by a large metal arm, and in you go to save her! The story opens the game for so much potential, most of which is tossed away. The levels are plain and fairly simple. Ranging the typical areas most depicted in the games from which all of the inspiration was drawn, a city, a cave, the forest, and space. The game feels like an amalgamation of Mega Man, and Darkwing Duck, with elements of Duck Tales, and Contra mixed in here and there, with yet even more cameos from familiar, but not quite right characters. There are only five levels, the first four levels are easy, and the fifth level spikes it up forcing you to beat all four prior bosses without saving before entering the final battle. The toughest boss was the Lego Robot, but once you learn the pattern, it is nothing to defeat. The controls aren't very precise, and I think it was an attempt to simulate older controllers and their lax input compared to modern controllers. Overall there was a lot of potential wasted here as so much more could have been done here, but nothing new was ever brought to the plate. Pixel Devil and the Broken Cartridge wasn't what I had hoped.