Ballistic Craft
- February 12, 2020
- Palladium Soft
Get on SteamA bullet hell of your own making! Play the game where strategy and creativity meet -- duel rival wizards in real time battle arenas with custom shot crafting to win the Tournament of Crafters!
PC
Windows
Reviews
- The game features a fun and unique mechanic for creating custom bullet patterns, allowing for creative gameplay.
- Fast-paced combat with a variety of spells and a shield mechanic adds depth to the gameplay experience.
- The game is entertaining and can be completed in a short time, making it a good value for its price.
- The singleplayer content is repetitive and lacks depth, with players often facing the same opponents.
- The multiplayer community is nearly non-existent, making it difficult to find matches or engage with other players.
- Graphics and presentation are bland, with recycled assets and forgettable music that detracts from the overall experience.
- gameplay18 mentions
- 33 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 17 % negative mentions
The gameplay revolves around repetitive duels against the same opponent, utilizing a bullet hell mechanic with customizable spells, but is limited by a cap on the number of projectiles. While the movement is fast-paced and offers depth through mechanics like animation cancels and perfect blocks, the overall difficulty feels artificially inflated rather than genuinely challenging. Despite some mechanical variety, the gameplay can become monotonous due to the lack of diverse enemy patterns and the reliance on similar bullet types.
“A fun game with a unique mechanic of creating your own shot.”
“The basics of the gameplay is that you play as a wizard and you get to equip 3 shots (spells) and one tome.”
“One of my favorite parts of the game is the movement; it's pretty fast-paced and actually has a lot of mechanical depth to it, from animation cancels to high jumps. It can be difficult to hit an opponent with good movement, and coupled with the perfect block mechanic, it can create some really drawn-out and exciting fights.”
“Gameplay consists of dueling the same opponent over and over again, by throwing a bullet hell of luminescent balls at them in different forms, sizes, and trajectories.”
“Mechanically speaking, you're really limited with things like laying traps, since you can only place 20 bullets at a time from what I've seen.”
“Just like I mentioned previously, you always fight the same opponent, and mechanically speaking, most of the bullets are the same or have irrelevant differences; the difficulty curve is as steep as a ramp for disabled people. You do have the zen spellbook, but it's honestly artificial difficulty, where they tweaked numbers instead of actually making the AI smarter or having more patterns, though I suppose the latter is hard to work with because of the base game.”
- story12 mentions
- 8 % positive mentions
- 67 % neutral mentions
- 25 % negative mentions
The game's story revolves around a main character who enters a magic high school filled with white-haired clones, aiming to prove that individuals from different backgrounds can succeed in a closed society. Players also experience a narrative where a mage from a poor village competes in a royal knights tournament, facing a series of challenging opponents. While the premise is intriguing, many reviewers express a desire for a more complex and enriched story mode with additional content and environments.
“I'd like to see an even better story mode with new environments and more story content!”
“I don't know, the game plot is not as complex as the editor.”
“The story is about this main character that gets into this magic high school full of white-haired clones and decides to fight them for sport... or fun... or because she wants to prove that in a closed society full of albino individuals with a superiority complex, there is hope for those that, while different, can get to the top with effort and work.”
“In the story mode, the basics are that you're a mage from a poor village that won the lottery and got the chance to compete in the royal knights tournament, which involves a few gauntlets where you have to beat 10 opponents in a row, and if you lose, you have to fight those ten in order again.”
- music4 mentions
- 50 % positive mentions
- 25 % neutral mentions
- 25 % negative mentions
The music in the game is largely considered forgettable, with only the main song receiving positive remarks; however, the rest of the soundtrack fails to leave a lasting impression.
“Music is forgettable, unfortunately.”
- graphics2 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The graphics are generally considered decent, with users noting that they are not bad overall.
