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Fun But Frustrating

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

As a "Buffy" fan, I had to buy this game for two reasons: One, the first game was awesome; two, it's really hard to go wrong when investing in anything having to do with Buffy or Joss Whedon. Well, except the novels. The expanded universe Buffy novels have a trend to suck majorly. But I digress...

It's a rare occasion that I simply give a list of positives and negatives when reviewing something, whether it be a book, a movie, a CD, or--as in this case--a game. However, I feel this game can be divided as such.

POSITIVES
+ The story is way more ambitious
+ Willow's voice actress (see below) eventually (after a long, long time) grows on you
+ You get to play as a LOT more characters
+ Staking vamps and fighting as one of the characters you love is always really, really cool
+ Awesome extras; nostalgia at hearing the voices of many of the original "Buffy" actors.

NEGATIVES
+ The game-play, while it grows on you, leaves a lot to be desired. It is neither as smooth nor as "easy" as the original game. The controls will often leave you facing the wrong direction during a fight.
+ There aren't any "saves" in this game. The only way to save is if you beat the level. If you die, you generally go all the way--yes all the way--back to the beginning of the level. Some levels have checkpoints and some don't, but if life calls you to leave the game in the middle of a level, all your work is gone due to the "no-saves" thing going on here. No matter HOW many checkpoints you passed by in that level, quitting the game erases them all. And the levels are far to long for this to be acceptable.
+ The Boss Battles are often so difficult that they become ludicrous. I have never gotten to the end of the game because of the Boss Battle at the "Sunnydale Zoo" level. My father, who is essentially a pro-gamer, found himself unable to beat an earlier boss. This problem also goes along with the saving problem because sometimes, it gets so frustrating that it makes you want to turn the game off. If you do, you'll be back at the level you started at, not back at the Boss Battle. Due to that insanely hard battle, I will never see the end of a game that I was--despite it's drawbacks--enjoying.

6/10

A little late but whatev.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Okay, so I've been playing Chaos Bleeds for a year and a half (not because I'm stuck but because my friend owned the game so I had to wait until it was available and I had time to play). I admit it was the first of the two Buffy games I played, mostly due to the fact that my friend couldn't find the first buried in her Taj Mahal sized closet. Anyway, it was a little frustrating in the beginning, as any game you're new to, when it came to figuring out the controls, but once I did, I quite enjoyed it. And the puzzles weren't that hard (for the most part) and neither were the bosses, though it did take me forever and a day to beat Kakistos, but I insist there were too many of those stupid orb things.

Anyway, my only real issue with the game was the fact that yes sometimes you end up punching air, but hey, you get used to it and figure out how to recover.

I didn't play the first Buffy game until after I'd gotten 8 levels into Chaos Bleeds and I have to say, from the start of that game I was disappointed, never even bothered to complete the first level in fact. I was just so bored and the inventory is completely different, in my opinion, worse.

Good things about Chaos Bleeds, while there is a limit on five items (on certain items) you still had a variety and after getting used to the inventory you could change your weapons very quickly. And nothing was shmexier than being able to use a shovel or a spike every now and then, by far my favorite weapons, next to the axe. Over all, Chaos Bleeds is one of the few games that ever kept me interested in playing, and I would often re-start the game to get a higher rating in speed and kills. Now that I've moved away from my friend that owns the game I decided to crack down and buy my own version, and let's just say I can't wait. I have a feeling my days off from work are going to be filled with me calling "Just a minute mom, I'm dusting vamps in here," followed by her reply, "Kill 'em good honey!"

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