Just a quick vertical slice used to pitch a rejected Golden Axe revival. No rating since there's enough to get a sense for gameflow, but not the soul of what the game might've been with more dev time. Yeah, I could say that there's basically nothing to distinguish it from any other hack-and-slash in the couple minutes of gameplay we see here, but then that makes it on-par with what I think of Golden Axe overall, so...

I honestly think releasing vertical slices is a really cool idea, and it'd lend itself to a lot of visibility to how games get developed. I'm not completely on board with how this was done. Much was made about the Steam description and the team not being informed of the release, but I'll also add that "Golden Axed" as a name is a bit mean-spirited, cute and snappy as it is. Still, it'd be a shame if we never saw something like this again.

Reviewed on Aug 10, 2023


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