Brutal Hockey 9+

This game is a cool concept, fun for an hour. Then you realize there only one way to score with a goalie in net and the game quickly gets stale when its the same pass shoot every game. The power ups make things a little more interesting, but its not enough and usually leads to you losing the tournament because a bomb blew up both your players etc.

It’s a great game aside from a few issues. Your own goalie might as well not be there as they are useless. The hardcore league is a stupid mess. The little insta kill squares only work on the player and same with the slow down squares which will continue after you’ve passed them. This ruins the experience and creates situations wherein the AI will dominate you because you keep dying on those stupid squares and your goalie lets them score. The death squares just need to go and same with the KO puck perk. It’s a nice idea and I still win when the enemy has it but it just goes against everything the game teaches you up to that point. If an opponent has the puck I would go in front of them and block it but with the KO puck it makes that a terrible idea. Maybe that was the devs goal but I don’t like that at all. These factors together make hardcore league a overwhelmingly sucky experience that I’m only doing to finish out the game.

The game is fun, and it’s a great time waster just a few things though.

1. Too short: game is way too short, maybe have a 1 minute or a options to lengthen the game.
2. Ai is not good: the team mate Ai is awful they pass the puck instead of taking shots, are not aggressive, etc. they need to be fixed. Also the opponents teams have similar issues but seem more streamlined.
3. More teams: we need more teams facing the same 6 teams over and over again gets monotonous quick.
4. Needs more modes: the leagues are a good start however once you have beaten it there’s little to no replay ability. The endless mode is fine but it still suffers.

Overall I give it a solid 3/5 stars, because the controls are good but not great, the overall game quality is good. The only thing it lacks is content.