What makes it even more strange, is that the game can be played with your gun constantly at the ready – clicking in the right stick changes the camera angle slightly, and readies the weapon. So why the excruciating animation delay in Bullet Witch? It’s feasible that you could create a shooter based on delays, methodical timing and anticipation, but Bullet Witch is designed and structured like something fast paced. Any kind of controller lag is enough to kill it for most players. A good shooter, whether first- or third-person, is anchored in the reflexes of the player, and relies on immediate activation of weapons.
This creates an extremely bizarre and frustrating tempo to the gameplay. Once out it stays active when shooting, and remains active for a short time, after which she puts it back.
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It takes roughly a full second for Alicia to unholster her “gunrod” before firing.
The first thing everyone notices, and which was raised by pretty much every reviewer, is the delay when raising your weapon to fire. Or is it…?Īlicia has four main guns at her disposal – initially just a machine gun, with a shotgun, sniper rifle and Vulcan cannon unlockable as you progress. Along the way she’s helped by soldier man Maxwell Cougar – “I’ll never get used to seeing a buddy die!” The story isn’t important because this is a fast-paced third-person shooter. Cue Alicia Claus, a sexy young witch with an enormous gunrod instead of a broom and a demon inside of her, hellbent on eradicating the evil plaguing mankind. Of course endless waves of demons pour out and the human race almost becomes extinct. The premise is that in the near future some madman archaeologist opens an already existing portal to hell in order to make a deal with the devil which revives his deceased beloved. In a way it exemplifies the problem of perception and value with retail games, because for $5 it’s worth dissecting. If we’re being honest it’s genuinely not a good game, but for the low price it now has, it can be strangely captivating. Even so, in the subsequent years since its release it’s been surpassed by other, similar games, all of a higher quality, and all of which highlight how batshit ridiculous some of Bullet Witch‘s problems are.Ĭavia is a fascinating company, full of oddities and maverick sensibilities, which sadly went bankrupt after Nier, and Bullet Witch stands as interesting point in their history. And despite the extremely vocal critics who despise Bullet Witch, there are those who are open fans (even if they only admit to it being a guilty pleasure) and have attained all of its Achievements. The company’s past experience working on Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2004) for PS2, which was fantastic, should have helped them. Despite the list of problems, there are moments of fun, showing that developers Cavia at least had the start of something good. Almost nothing seems to have changed though, and the tragic irony is that the Western release is demonstrably worse than the Japanese original. Poor design choices even managed to linger after the game was allegedly given six additional months of development prior to its Western release by Atari, by which time it should have been obvious what needed correcting. There are some fantastic ideas and highly enjoyable set-pieces – which are unfortunately marred by some truly awful ideas, which are so bad it’s miraculous they were even implemented, let alone managed to stay with the game throughout development and quality control. While there are plenty of quantifiable reasons to describe the game as “bad”, it’s still possible to find a certain charm to proceedings. Or perhaps, rather, it’s too easy to dismiss it without really thinking about it. Although this is the case for Bullet Witch, it’s not easy to articulate. As everyone knows, launch titles and those which come out soon after seldom showcase what new hardware is capable of, and they rarely age well. The Xbox 360 launched in various international territories in the final weeks of 2005, and roughly six months later Bullet Witch was released in Japan.
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