Babylon&s;s Fall

"All in all, while Babylon&s;s Fall had several good ideas and had a lot of potential, it shot itself in the foot with its intrusive live service model and its painfully obvious lack of polish, making it that much harder …"

"Babylon&s;s Fall does nothing to be, if not remarkable, memorable: at least not in a positive way."

"Babylon&s;s Fall has fast, flashy combat and a generally enjoyable structure, but is packed with issues, ranging from its limited co-op function to live service elements, which appear to have sealed its fate."

"An overpriced game with a solid combat system that&s;s buried under a mountain of banality and monetisation."

"Babylon&s;s Fall is a huge wasted opportunity. Supported by ingenious mechanics such as the Gideon Arms or the Dynamis Abilities, the combat system had the potential to shine with a new and intense light, but the questionable choice to postpone …"

"Babylon&s;s Fall is just dull, repetitive and ultimately forgettable. The combat at the game&s;s core so simple and lacking in challenge, especially if you have a full team. We all know that PlatinumGames are capable of games so much more …"

"Babylon&s;s Fall flat out needed more time. The graphics make the experience just horrible at times, with the filter even giving me headaches. The combat can be enjoyable, though there is a grind to it, it&s;s something I still enjoy …"

"The true problem of Babylon’s Fall is that it has no sense of identity. There’s nothing that sets it apart from games like it, and it only shows itself as a poor comparison to other, free, games. Babylon’s Fall feels …"

"An Exercise in apathy, neither solid nor liquid. Not exactly bad, but not very good either. Just a bit &s;meh,&s; really."

"Babylon’s Fall feels like a game that came out a decade ago, both visually and in its gameplay. Combat is clunky and boring most of the time, outside of a few highlights here and there. There’s nothing that encourages players …"

"Babylon&s;s Fall is a mixed bag with combat mechanics and customisation standing at the forefront of the positives. But the majority of the game just doesn&s;t flow as well as it could’ve with dated graphics, shockingly repetitive gaming loop and …"

"Babylon’s Fall should’ve been an 11-13 hour action game with a lot of replay value and over the top cutscenes. It should have been an outrageous and addictive action game. This is a free-to-play game but with the greedy audacity …"

"Babylon&s;s Fall is a baffling game that lacks any distinct vision, both in terms of gameplay and artistic design."

"Babylon&s;s Fall is little more than a string of indiscernible combat encounters with a few big boss fights. The oil-paint art style of the game makes it difficult to distinguish anything in combat, especially in the darker levels. Unfortunately, the …"

"Babylon’s Fall falters with its implementation of a live-service model. While it contains a compelling, multi-faceted combat system, its brilliance is lost in a crowd of unnecessary features. The art direction, although interesting, doesn’t capture the notion of an oil …"

"Anyone who&s;s been keeping tabs may not be all that surprised to find Square Enix once again in a precarious spot that is in part baffling but more so predictable given recent history."

"There is no one that we would recommend Babylon’s Fall to. It’s visually dated, consistently dull and features the most average PlatinumGames combat we can remember. On paper, the concept of a game like this bathed in the studio’s signature …"

"Babylon&s;s Fall isn&s;t a broken action RPG, but it isn&s;t a good one, either – and it&s;s one of the ugliest games in several console generations."

"Babylon&s;s Fall is the latest example of a decent core concept being flagrantly corrupted by the live-service template, and whose prospects for improvement dwindle with each passing day."

"Babylon&s;s Fall is the first console GaaS developed by Platinum Games and it shows. Technically anchored to the past and artistically uninspired, the action game developed by the creators of Bayonetta hides its best features behind an abysmal story mode …"

"This isn’t the PlatinumGames experience I expected, and that’s the most depressing part of it all. An absolute waste of potential that should have been far greater than this mess of a release that will quickly be forgotten."

"Babylon&s;s Fall is an ugly, clunky, incomprehensible mess, and gamers should expect better from both Platinum and Square Enix."

"That Babylon&s;s Fall comes from Platinum Games is perhaps the biggest surprise here. A banal, uninspired hack &s;n&s; slasher with no imagination or personality."

"Now the only question left is whether Platinum Games and Square Enix have the fortitude to recover? I hope they do, but once players label a game as average (or worse), it can be an insurmountable task to change their …"

"From a dismal effort on the front of graphics, user interface, player onboarding, sound design, and essentially every other aspect of game design, Babylon’s Fall is a failure. Games have bounced back from disastrous launches in the past, but in …"

"For what it’s worth, Babylon’s Fall is not the worst AAA game to ever release... it runs properly, doesn’t have any major glitches, and is functional without having to spend any extra cash. It’s just a very boring, uninteresting game …"

"Babylon’s Fall seems like it needed a lot more development time. The core combat feels stiffer than my left wrist, which is currently recovering from a broken bone. Combining that with lackluster graphics and limited multiplayer options would be bad …"

"Babylon’s Fall is an early contender for the worst game of 2022."

"If you love loot-based games and like the idea of wielding four weapons at once, you can get some enjoyment out of Babylon’s Fall. You’ve got to look past the drab visuals though, and have plenty of patience to get …"

"Once again, Square Enix fails miserably with another one of these infamous games as a service. Babylon&s;s Fall feels like it was just made as a quick and easy cashgrab, and even PlatinumGames&s;s incredible talent isn&s;t enought to save this …"

"Even with PlatinumGames’ signature combat and some mechanics brought in from its past work, Babylon’s Fall babylon-falls short in every department. Any hopes I had were quickly dragged down by wonky combat mechanics, a below-average narrative, poor graphics, and even …"

"The murky visuals, bland dungeon design, boring gameplay overshadow the excellent boss design and a killer soundtrack, making this more of a chore to play and dampening the experience tremendously. There is no way in good faith that this could …"

"Babylon&s;s Fall gets wrong everything that you can get wrong in a game."

"Given the nature of live service titles it&s;s possible that Babylon&s;s Fall could see a phoenix-style resurrection with some rebalancing, but somehow, we doubt it. Hopefully this absolute misfire doesn&s;t signal a profound change in direction for Platinum Games; this …"

"Babylon’s Fall is not an awful game, its just not a very good one and while I would never tell anyone what to do with their money, I will strongly suggest you avoid this one as it’s fate will surely …"

"Babylon&s;s Fall is a terrible experience all the way throughout. Reaching the endgame and postgame content (when the game actually becomes quite good) doesn&s;t matter because the journey to get to that point is the most painfully boring affair in …"

"Babylon&s;s Fall could be one of the worst titles of 2022, even though it had the potential to be something good, all of that potential was lost in a bad design, very outdated graphics, a very bad story, and a …"