Bullet Witch Reviews

Just had a quick go with this game on my steam deck. Seems to work fine.

It is quite a cheap, trashy game with large empty open spaces and very unimpactful shooting mechanics that try to mimic the Gungrave series. But it has its charm, and with some effort, it could have become a decent franchise. But now it is a relic of the past. Try it on sales.

As an average enjoyer of B-grade games, It was mediocre for me, although I wouldn’t recommend it. It lacks both plot and gameplay. I hardly used the spells. A witch with a gun is a unique concept, but it was executed poorly.

The ideas of the game are solid, but the practice is. . . well, questionable at best. It's not bad, just a little slow at times, at least is small, so i doesn't outstay it's welcome.

Despite this review being "Not Recommended", i'd say you SHOULD play this game IF you enjoy tastefully mediocre console era third-person shooters. I don't even know, so i'll just make a list of things that i found during my time with Bullet Witch that i think are deserving a highlight. Let's start with the Technical Part: [list] [*]The game stutters and lags if you don't have a controller plugged in; [*]The game stuttered and lagged badly on my outdated laptop, specifically on open and foggy maps (there's a level that combines both and my frames dropped to 6 FPS during that); [*]One map is so goddamn full of fog, you can't see ANYTHING in front of you; [*]Settings changes you make in the game's launcher don't save (or maybe it's because my game just crashed a bit later after i changed some settings); [*]The game might crash. It crashed when i casted one of the super spells in an big open foggy map. [*]The game is janky. Expect to fall through the map (happened to me once) when dashing or absolute chaos ensuing when you cast the last super spell you unlock (crashes). [*]Finishing the game on Hard will not give you achievements for Easy and Normal. You have to beat the game 5 times on every difficulty to 100% it. It took me 4 hours to beat Bullet Witch on Normal. [/list] The Story: [list] [*]The story is here alright; [*]So, a guy mourns his family member's death and summons demons to revive the said family member. Demons kill almost everyone on the planet; [*]You play as a mysterious (Bullet) Witch that hunts down demons and is looking for the biggest one; [*]There's like, a dude and his resistance army; [*]Also 90% of the enemies are US Marines that were possessed by demons that possess evil people specifically; [*]The main villain is a big demon. He's just there; [*]"Witches don't need... prayers" (cheesy writing); [*]Melodrama; [*]Bullet Witch was made by Cavia. The same people that made Nier and Drakengard. THIS IS THE CLOSEST YOU GET TO DRAKENGARD ON PC. [/list] The Gameplay: [list] [*]THERE IS DASH. OPEN A MAGIC WHEEL (MMB) AND PRESS LSHIFT. BUT BE CAREFUL YOU MIGHT FALL THROUGH THE MAP; [*]Run, gun, cover. Crouch, aim, dodge. Bullet Witch is a console era 3rd person cover shooter. It gets pretty stale very quickly; [*]Enemy types are not much and are all pretty boring to fight. Although, some of them are straight up frustrating and annoying. You will see which ones; [*]There is a very basic upgrade system. HP and MP regen. Gun damage. Spell upgrades. [*]The Witch has 4 different types of GUN. A Rifle, a Shotgun, a Cannon(more like a big rifle) and a Gatling gun; The rifle and the cannon's bullets have travel time so the cannon is pretty terrible at sniping (it also has a terrible accuracy) unless you use Elemental Shot which gives it a scope and makes it a hitscan gun; The rifle is what i used 80% of the time, with the cannon being the rest 20%. Shotgun is pretty bad and the Gatling is supposedly just a better rifle, but it's pretty expensive so i didn't unlock it; [*]The Witch has magic. Unlock them in the upgrade shop. Super spells are unlocked through the game. 9 spells grouped in 3 wheels: 1st wheel - Ancient Wall (spawns a wall for a very short time), Elemental Shot (GUN buffs - RIfle shoots fire bullets, Shotgun has more knockback, Cannon gets a scope and becomes a hitscan weapon, Gatling idk i didn't unlock it), Rose Spear (throws a rose that spawns spears from the ground, terrible range and it's hitboxes are terrible, can miss enemies even if you throw it right under their feet); 2nd wheel - Sacrifice (heals friendly NPCs, absolutely useless but the survival rate of NPCs affects your rank), Willpower (pushes small objects, every time i tried to use it the objects were too big to move. Worked only one time for me), Ravens Panic (send ravens, stunning enemies); 3rd wheel - super spells. Kill a lot of enemies and break things around; Ancient Wall's duration is bad but it's usable. Rose Spear's hitboxes are weird and janky, it also requires upgrading to become useful. Willpower is very situational. Ravens and Elemental Shot ftw. Also TWO OF THREE super spells are pretty janky and can miss enemies a lot; [*]Some maps are very linear. Some are semi-open and have forking paths. Some maps require a ton of backtracking and looking for [strike]keys[/strike] enemies that unlock colored barriers when killed; [*]One map gets reused; [*]The game has some really impressive destructible environments on a couple of maps. All can be tested with super spells or some explosions; [*]Boss fights can be pretty frustrating. Ughhhhhhh; [*]Some enemies are really fucking frustrating; [*]When you finish a chapter, the game shows you a silly newspaper headline about a thing The Witch did in the chapter; [*]Friendly NPCs sometimes give you food that heals you and it's such an obscure and stupid mechanic. [/list] Miscellaneous: [list] [*]Soldier enemies have some amusing voices (that usually range from a typical evil grunt voice to a creepy high pitched evil voice) and phrases. They taunt, scream in pain, yell in amazement and some even beg for mercy (and it's hilarious). When you cast a super spell they say: "What?! How did you do that!?" or "This must be some powerful magic!". I wish i could just extract all these phrases from the game's files. People that voiced these enemies deserve a compliment; [*]Console era western mediocre 3rd person shooter vs console era eastern mediocre 3rd person shooter; [*]FUCK FREAKY WHITE FLYING GHOSTS; [*]When in doubt, LIGHTING; [*]I feel like i didn't lose much but i also gained so little; [*]The Voice in our head doesn't get any explanation whatsoever despite being one of the best and most useful characters; [*]I think this game was made from the scraps of 3 or 4 different games. A Frankenstein's Monster. (Why do i feel like this describes a lot of games from that time); [*]That blonde guy gives me the creeps; [*]Green hair sweep. [/list]