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Heavy Barrel

aka: Johnny Turbo's Arcade: Heavy Barrel, Retro Classix: Heavy Barrel
Moby ID: 16060

[ All ] [ Antstream ] [ Apple II ] [ Arcade ] [ DOS ] [ NES ] [ Nintendo Switch ] [ PlayStation 4 ] [ Windows ] [ Zeebo ]

Critic Reviews add missing review

Average score: 70% (based on 10 ratings)

Player Reviews

Average score: 3.2 out of 5 (based on 31 ratings with 1 reviews)

The Controls Are Unforgivable

The Good
It's Heavy Barrel! It's a classic. The game is a ton of fun.

The Bad
The problem is the barrel rotation. Instead of pointing the right analog directly where you want to shoot, you use that analog be pressing left or right to rotate the barrel 45 degrees in that direction for each press.

So in other words, you're moving up and pointing up and you wanna shoot the guy coming at you from behind, right? You either press the right analog RIGHT - RIGHT - RIGHT - RIGHT and then shoot or you press it LEFT - LEFT - LEFT - LEFT and then hope he stayed very still for the last few seconds.

I love Heavy Barrel, but they've GOT to fix this crap!

The Bottom Line
It's an awesome game at the arcade, but (as of release day), it's not a good experience on the Switch.

Nintendo Switch · by Paul Lynn (3) · 2018

Contributors to this Entry

Critic reviews added by Big John WV, SlyDante, Alaka, SoMuchChaotix, RhYnoECfnW, RetroArchives.fr, A.J. Maciejewski, Tim Janssen.