Bounty Battle Review (PlayStation 4)

Bounty Battle is the ultimate indie fighting game: a new multiplayer 2D fighter, where you can pit your favorite indie heroes against one another! Indie heroes from games like Guacamelee! and Darkest Dungeon, to Dead Cells, Owlboy & more battle it out in this fighter frenzy.

Pros:

• Cartoon style graphics.
• 1.29gb download size.
• Platinum trophy.
• Fighting/arena brawler gameplay.
• Two modes-single players and versus.
• Single player-tutorial, tournament, challenge, and training room.
• Versus- local.
• The cast of characters are made up of indie game protagonists.
• Think Super Smash Brothers with indie characters.
• Gimmick-Bounty system whereby you earn a bounty by defeating other players and with bounty points you can spend them in the match on powerful new moves or a minion who will fight alongside you until death.
• You can lose bounty points by being defeated but also if you spam the attack button too much.
• Energy-regains over time and you use this to power all your moves and attacks except the base attack button on the square key.
• Air juggling and launching is in the game.
• Side stable of attacks and combos from grabs to special moves and air attacks.
• Tournament-30 of them and it will give you a list of opponents and the name of the player you must be for the tournament. Finish each fight without dying to unlock a new player’s skin.
• Modern Chiptune soundtrack.
• 2-4 player local multiplayer. You can choose team colors.
• Ai/bot match support. Can be mixed with other local players.
• 30 characters to choose from.
• Ai/bot difficulties are on a 1-5 star system.
• 16 arenas to fight in.
• Combo counter.
• Three game types-victory is achieved by either-count, time, or life.

Cons:

• Fighting is very sluggish and takes a minute to get used to the flow.
• A lot to take in initially.
• No online play.
• The tournament doesn’t have difficulties.
• Only unlocks are skins.
• The arenas feel small.
• Small scale fights.
• The bounty system feels a bit all over the place.
• It kind of feels like an early access game with only a few game modes and all modes ultimately playing the same.
• Not that fun in single player.