Friday, March 22, 2013
Bully: Scholarship Edition
A nice action sandbox game, although in my inexperience with the genre I don't have anything else to compare it to.
Fair warning is that it is a poor PC port, no windowed mode or advanced graphics settings, mouse has some sort of analog dead zone which exaggerates large movements and totally ignores small ones, mini games designed for analog sticks but using the mouse can be frustrating to get used to.
There is quite a lot to do between missions, collectibles, and mini games. I was able to get 97% completion within 50 hours so it's a fairly long experience, probably longer if you feel like messing around in it instead of going straight from one objective to the next.
Combat is clunky, only hit and grapple, and most bosses are invulnerable to grapple. So it's button mashing hit most of the time. You do get combat upgrades that are just holding down hit after x amounts of button mashing it, but it's all largely irrelevant.
For me it was enjoyable up until end game, then all that was left was reoccurring boring mini games, and directionless mischief in the sandbox. There isn't anything branching story so there is also no reason to replay it as well.
TL;DR: Do you like sandbox games? Can you stand poor PC ports?
Labels:
Action,
Adventure,
Open World,
Singleplayer
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