Blood Over

Genre: Side scrolling, Shooter
Dimensions: 3D
Setting: Horror
Players: 1


The first thing you will notice about blood over is that it is all rendered in 3d. The game is fast paced, and it has a variety of attacks. The story keeps the player playing and wondering what will happen next. Even though I didn't understand what they were saying, most of the time it’s pretty obvious from the cut scenes.

The gameplay might be a little repetitive. You use 3 buttons, shoot, kick and the call maid. The interesting thing is that you can fire a gun by inputting different commands (down forward shoot, forward down forward shoot), that also works for the kick. You have a maid with you who doesn't do anything until you press the button for her, then she uses a minigun and kills most of the enemies on the screen, but you are limited to how much you can use this. The boss battles are always fun interesting and well designed, but they are at the same time very frustrating. During the boss battles usually one enemy hit can take almost all your life so it's crucial to be able to dodge enemy attacks in split seconds, be it jump or slide. Usually one maid call won’t kill the boss, but it makes you invulnerable during it so it’s a big help. There is also a blood mode, which you get once you kill enough enemies, but any hit from an enemy will disable it.

One of the most interesting things I saw in this game is that if you play the game perfectly from the begging and keep getting huge combos the game will go to hard mode, but you can't select hard mode when you start the game, so it’s always a challenge playing it.


Graphics: The graphics are fine, they are 3d, but they are not very detailed and the models are low poly. The effects have little detail.

Controls: The controls do their job, but sometimes the character doesn't behave the way you want her, so it can get frustrating during the boss battles and parts where you need to dodge.

Story: It seems deeper than in most games of this type. There are numerous cut scenes. You also see a lot of dialog between missions. From what I understand the story is very interesting.

Gameplay: The toughness of the game keeps the player always at the edge of his seat, it can get a bit too hard and unfair at times (try fighting 2 bosses who are faster than you at the same time), but all in all, the variety of the levels and bosses keeps you going.

Replay Value: The game is fun, but at the same time it’s not a game you'd play again. The combos and rankings help this a little, also the auto hard mode is interesting and it’s interesting to see what the next level is and who is the next boss is. If you die in a later part of the game it's pretty hard to force yourself to play it from the beginning.

Best moment: The game going to hard mode on the first stage.

Official site: http://arthearts.net/9th-night/