HellBreachers Review (PlayStation 5)
A journey to hell and back! Hellbreachers is a retro-styled action-platformer with an RPG character progression system. Choose one of three heroes and then one of ten specializations, progress through spectacular locations, and take on challenging bosses!
Pros:
- Decent pixel art graphics.
- 112.8MB download size.
- Platinum trophy.
- Platformer gameplay.
- 10 districts with a handful of levels within each.
- Big boss fights.
- Two difficulties-little adventure and heroical deed.
- 3 characters-Knight, Magician, and Assassin. Each has a choice of 3 subclasses.
- Opening tutorial level.
- Chests-find keys to open them and earn special attack uses.
- Coins and gems to collect.
- End of level breakdown shows jewels collected in level and your total score.
- Very easy Platinum trophy and it doesn’t require you to play all the levels.
- Can replay levels.
- Cutesy game World with nice backdrops.
- A handful of enemy types.
Cons:
- You cannot jump between characters to try them out or change them up.
- Only one save and it’s tied to the current character.
- Hitting an enemy then puts them in a flashing invincible state for a few seconds.
- You can just double jump over the platforms and finish levels in seconds.
- No chest drop animations.
- All loot is pointless and just for a score that means nothing.
- No leaderboards.
- No replay value.
- Levels all start feeling the same.
- Animations of characters are over-animated making it hard to judge jumps.
- Very basic platformer.
- Bosses can be beaten easily just by standing next to them and spamming your specials.
