{"id":21205,"date":"2021-05-10T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T00:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=21205"},"modified":"2021-04-13T13:05:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T13:05:32","slug":"bite-the-bullet-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/10\/bite-the-bullet-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Bite the Bullet (PS4, Switch, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In the far future, most humans have left Earth for other planets as food is scarce.\u00a0 The people who still live on Earth have cybernetic implants installed that allow them to eat anything.\u00a0 And I do mean ANYTHING.\u00a0 Rocks, metal, zombies, you name it, just to survive in this war-torn Earth where food is hard to come by.\u00a0 When trouble erupts, it\u2019s up to Chewie and Chewella to run and gun and eat their way to victory.\u00a0 Bite the Bullet is a 2-D run and gun game where you can eat any enemy to boost your stats.\u00a0 The game has been out for a while, but has new DLC which adds, \u201cnew levels, enemies, double the frame rate for animation, and plenty of secrets.\u201d\u00a0 The announcement of this new DLC is why I\u2019m reviewing the game now, but since I didn\u2019t play it before, I haven\u2019t noticed the difference.\u00a0 But anyway, Bite the Bullet is available for nearly all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

To start, you\u2019ll pick your playable character: male Chewie or female Chewella.\u00a0 You\u2019ll visit a hub area where you can talk to people and get mission details, and then select your stage.\u00a0 In these levels, you\u2019ll run, double jump, dash, and shoot your way past enemies.\u00a0 Each enemy has an energy gauge above them.\u00a0 Make sure you shoot the enemy enough so their energy gauge is almost, but not completely empty.\u00a0 When that happens, they\u2019ll become dizzy and you can run up and eat them with the circle button!\u00a0 You can eat regular enemies, zombies, robots, and just regular food just sitting around.\u00a0 But be careful not to shoot them too many times, or you\u2019ll destroy them without getting a chance to eat them.\u00a0 Also, when you kill and eat enough enemies, you\u2019ll fill a gauge and when it\u2019s full you can temporarily transform into a Hulk-like monster for tough situations.\u00a0 When you visit certain scales in a level, you can transfer points from enemies you\u2019ve eaten to stat boosts on a HUGE skill tree.\u00a0 After you beat the boss at the end of the level, you\u2019ll go back to the hub world so you can tackle the next area.<\/p>\n

I like the idea of this game, as eating everything is silly and reminds me of games I enjoy such as Kirby and Pac-Man.\u00a0 But man I had so many problems with this game.\u00a0 Levels are WAY too long and very hard.\u00a0 Luckily you can continue as many times as you like at the last checkpoint you cross, but it still wore me out after a while.\u00a0 I also had trouble with some of the controls and gameplay aspects.\u00a0 One time I went into the menu screen to toggle some things, and when I came out I was shooting automatically rapid fire without any way to stop, and I couldn\u2019t figure out how to end that.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if that was a game bug or something I did.\u00a0 I also couldn\u2019t figure out things like how to craft weapons or switch them out, and when I did I couldn\u2019t tell a difference.\u00a0 Same thing when applying skills to the skill tree.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t notice a change in what I did.\u00a0 Only thing I could tell was when I ate certain enemies, my energy would refill.\u00a0 The text in the game is very hard to read, and the action is just a bit too chaotic for my tastes.\u00a0 Visuals are kind of disgusting, too, as you can barf and whatnot.\u00a0 The game says that if you eat too much you get fat, but I didn\u2019t notice that happening no matter how much I ate.\u00a0 It\u2019s not like Metal Slug where if you eat too many food items you can get fat and run slower or whatever.\u00a0 I liked the pixelated 16-bit graphics, but the more advanced lighting effects they put in just got distracting.\u00a0 The whole game is just kind of sloppy.\u00a0 But if you like Contra and gross toys like Garbage Pail Kids and Madballs (I\u2019m probably aging myself there), you might still enjoy Bite the Bullet.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bite the Bullet is rated T for Teen with ESRB descriptors of Blood, Drug Reference, Language, and Violence.\u00a0 When you eat or destroy enemies, pixelated square bits of blood fly everywhere, and you shoot anything that moves so of course it\u2019s violent.\u00a0 Some of the items you pick up look like needles, so that\u2019s the drug reference, and the language is just in the text only.\u00a0 But because of all this and the high difficulty, I\u2019d say the game is best for older players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the far future, most humans have left Earth for other planets as food is scarce.\u00a0 The people who still live on Earth have cybernetic implants installed that allow them to eat anything.\u00a0 And I do mean ANYTHING.\u00a0 Rocks, metal, zombies, you name it, just to survive in this war-torn Earth where food is hard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21207,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21205\/revisions\/21207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}