Grissallia<p>June 16, 2023 - Day 167 - NewPlay Review<br>Total NewPlays: 185</p><p>Game: Bleed 2</p><p>Platform: Steam<br>Release Date: Feb 19, 2017<br>Library Date: Feb 2, 2019<br>Unplayed: 1595d (4y4m14d)<br>Playtime: 19m</p><p>Bleed 2 is a 2D twin-stick sideways scrolling pixel-art arcade shoot-em-up.</p><p>It feels very much like a 80's arcade game, both sonically and visually.</p><p>Lots of frantic button mashing, which would be great if I could mash the right buttons in the right order, but as I can't, I spent a lot of time dying.</p><p>The most frustrating thing is that every platformer / sideways scroller I've played uses the A button on the controller to jump, while Bleed 2 uses the right trigger, and uses A to taunt.</p><p>As the right thumbstick is used for shooting, it makes sense, but I found myself taunting instead of jumping far too many times (and then, of course, dying).</p><p>It's not that Bleed 2 isn't a good game, it's just that I'm not good at it.</p><p>Bleed 2 is just:</p><p>2: Meh</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Bleed2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bleed2</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SidewaysScroller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SidewaysScroller</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PixelArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PixelArt</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TwinStick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TwinStick</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MastodonGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonGaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365ONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365ONG</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NewPlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewPlay</span></a></p>