Allie<p>November 15, 2023 - Day 319 - NewPlay Review<br>Total NewPlays: 338</p><p>Game: BPM: Bullets Per Minute</p><p>Platform: Steam<br>Release Date: Sep 16, 2020<br>Installation Date: Nov 15, 2023<br>Unplayed: 0d <br>Playtime: 16m</p><p>BPM: Bullets Per Minutes is a rhythm-based FPS roguelike. I discovered BPM when I was reading about Metal Hellsinger, and added it to my wishlist.</p><p>Joke was on me. Turns out I already owned it.</p><p>After the 250Mbps fibre was installed today, I went looking through my unredeemed Steam keys list, and spotted BPM. "Ooooh! I'll install that!"</p><p>While this has the same basic concept as Metal Hellsinger, it plays very differently.</p><p>Instead of raiding hell, you're a Valkyrie raiding randomly generated Viking-esque dungeons, rendered in an eyewatering, almost monochromatic colour palette.</p><p>You also absolutely MUST fire on the beat, or the gun just doesn't fire. Even on easy mode, the mobs hit hard. Each hit does 25% damage.</p><p>You walk into a darkened room that may or may not have a wild number of mobs in it, and you run around trying to make out where you're going, and not get hit.</p><p>If you're unlucky, there's a boss in the room, who might completely blind you for a moment... and then you're dead. </p><p>Ultimately, it was the graphics that killed it for me. I would probably persevere if I could easily make out what I'm shooting at against the backgrounds, but it just becomes too much work, particularly when there are a lot of mobs on screen.</p><p>I really wanted to like this game, but unfortunately, BPM: Bullets Per Minute is another:</p><p>1: Nope</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/BPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BPM</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/BulletsPerMinute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BulletsPerMinute</span></a><br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/FirstPerson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPerson</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Rhythm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rhythm</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/FPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FPS</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Roguelike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roguelike</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><br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/NewPlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewPlay</span></a></p>