Barbearian Reviews

Barbearian is a solid "hack and slash" - "beat'em'up" game. It also has a touch of old arcade games. I liked the graphics. The story and sound are mediocre. The forte of this game is the gameplay. It's a simple, entertaining, addictive, straightforward skill based game. Good variety of enemies, you upgrade your char and your soldiers with money, you collect powerups and special weapons. What is impressive is the sheer amount of enemies on the maps, especially when you enter the second half of the story. It fabricates some epic brawls and a hectic, adrenalinic experience. It's challenging. There is only 1 difficulty mode but you can modify it nicely with the damage received - meter. Frankly, after a while I lowered it to 75% damage received, and in some boss fights to 50% damage recieved. But it's ok, I saw some people playing on you tube with 10% damage received, so I'm satisfied with how I managed to beat the game.

It's kind of amusing, but the amount of sheer button mashing gets boring quick. The winning strategy is to turn on damage modifiers in the accessibility settings because I really doubt anyone got to the end of it some other way. It's not too bad, but also nothing special worth recommending.