Revenge of the Headless Reviews

Controlling the paddle feels really bad. A lot of cool ideas though.

Needs more work on the bugs such as getting stuck on the slime boss stage :c Other than the few bugs I've encountered I give this a big Fuck yeah! Great music Great gameplay Great artwork! 9/10 would buy again ;)

The game is wonderful. At first, it seemed too difficult and unbeatable, but the further you go, the better it gets to play, and the more opportunities to level up your character open up. I highly recommend it to all fans of the Arkanoid genre.

What a genius idea to bring up breakout and roguelike all together! Definitely brings me back to the arcade memory. The levels are pretty well designed and so does many in-game mechanism. There are some details that would use some improvement like resolution is not adjustable even in windowed mode... After all a great indie! Worths every penny at its price.

I really liked the concept behind Revenge of the Headless. It's basically like that classic arcade game Breakout or Arkanoid (The brick breaking game, you've probably played it), but instead of bricks you have enemies that fire missiles at your paddle. So you have to dodge while you're trying to aim the ball at these moving targets, it's quite challenging. The story behind the title is that you're a Durahan, which is a Japanese version of the Dullahan, the Celtic headless horseman. And, as the title suggests, you're out for revenge. Not that the game has or needs a real story. But for the sake of flavour, they added this mythical fantasy setting to the game. The paddle is the headless body and the ball is your head. This game has pixel graphics, which usually I love, but in this case, it looks pretty basic. Sadly, after playing this game for a while, I've come to the conclusion that that's true in general for this game. It's pretty basic, it doesn't feel fleshed out. I didn't feel excited to explore more of this game, or wanting to play “one more go” after I died. I think the main issue is the gameplay, which falls flat somehow. I think one of the main problems is most of the ways you take damage feel, well, unfair. Enemies have attacks like throwing bombs, or spitting pools of acid or webs that hold you in place. And what happens is say, an enemy throws a bomb in the bottom left corner, that's fine, you can avoid it. Unless the ball happens to be headed to that corner, in which case you either get hit by the bomb, or you miss the ball. Either way, you lose a heart. So, it mostly comes down to luck, and the thing is, this is how you'll lose most of your health, through unavoidable damage. That's just not fun. In the end, I can't recommend this game. It really is a good concept, but I just don't think it works. I give it 1.5/5 stars.