Bullet Candy
- February 14, 2007
- R C Knight
Get on Steam"Bullet Candy" is a fast-paced arcade-style shoot 'em up game featuring non-stop action and intense enemy encounters. Players navigate through vibrant, neon-lit levels while dodging a hail of bullets and eliminating enemies with a wide array of weapons. The game offers a challenging experience with leaderboards and a variety of game modes, including the innovative "Proximity" mode, where players must carefully maneuver to avoid explosive projectiles.
PC
Windows
Reviews
- Fun and addictive gameplay that can provide a good time-killer experience.
- Bright visuals and chaotic bullet patterns create an engaging arcade atmosphere.
- Offers a unique mechanic of collecting power-ups that can clear the screen of enemies.
- Lacks polish and feels unbalanced, with some levels being overly easy while others are frustratingly difficult.
- Audio levels are excessively loud and can be painful, detracting from the overall experience.
- Graphics and design are considered basic and unoriginal, making it less appealing compared to other games in the genre.
- music4 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 25 % neutral mentions
- 75 % negative mentions
The music and sound effects in the game are widely criticized for being excessively loud, repetitive, and of poor quality, leading to a frustrating audio experience. Many users find the audio levels to be painful and reminiscent of bootlegged media, detracting significantly from the overall enjoyment of the game.
“The music and sound effects audio levels are way too loud and clip like crazy.”
“The sound effects are painful, the music is annoying and repetitive.”
“Honestly not worth it, mostly due to the nature of the music and audio being very painful and honestly bad for anything but setups that can filter out bad bass; terrible audio levels reminiscent of bootlegged media.”
- graphics4 mentions
- 25 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 75 % negative mentions
The graphics of the game are generally criticized for being weak and unremarkable, with many reviewers noting poor visuals and an unrefined art style. Overall, the graphical presentation fails to impress and detracts from the overall gaming experience.
“Weak engine, weak visuals, weak game mechanics.”
“Bad game, terrible graphics.”
“The art style is unclean.”
- gameplay4 mentions
- 50 % positive mentions
- -25 % neutral mentions
- 75 % negative mentions
The gameplay is characterized by a mix of weak engine and visuals, leading to a narrow and repetitive experience focused on avoiding projectiles and collecting scores. However, the game offers an almost endless variety of levels and gameplay options, making it addictive for some players, especially after recent updates that have improved the overall experience.
“Almost endless variety from level to level with many gameplay options makes this level-based insane shmup an addictive adrenaline boost.”
“After the recent update, everything has improved, including the gameplay, which is now even easier than before.”
“Gameplay is narrow and repetitive, focusing mostly on avoiding projectiles on a static rectangular level while collecting as much score as possible from pickups.”
“Weak engine, weak visuals, weak game mechanics.”
“In the early stages of the game, it was not as exciting as it seemed; after the recent update, everything improved, including the gameplay, which became even easier than before.”
